This privacy policy sets out how The Migrant Project uses and protects any information that you give The Migrant Project when you use this website.

The Migrant Project is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

The Migrant Project may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Contact information you leave, including your email address, if you send us a question
  • Your IP address
  • Information on how you use the site

What we do with the information we gather

We use this information to understand your needs and improve the site. We can’t personally identify you using your data.

Controlling your personal information

We sometimes use other organisations to support our services and process your personal information on our behalf, for example to help us prepare email newsletters to you in line with your preferences. We make sure that these other organisations have policies and provisions in place to protect your personal information that are at least as strong as ours.
We won’t share your information with any other organisations for purely market research or commercial purposes. We will not otherwise pass on your personal information, unless we are required by law to do so.
If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to contact@themigrantproject.org . You can ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Deleting your information

You can delete personal information about you by contacting us at contact@themigrantproject.org. Your personal information will be deleted within 5 working days. Keep in mind that we will keep a record of your interactions with our website, but it cannot be linked back to you.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place security procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Specifically, our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on the software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below. However, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Cookies we use

We want to make sure you are fully aware of the cookies we use and what they do when you are visiting www.themigrantproject.org.

Here is a full guide to our cookies explaining the name of the cookie as it would appear on your computer and a description of what the cookie is used for:

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your search settings

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie name Provider Purpose Type Expiry
_ga themigrantproject.org Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. HTTP 2 Years
_gat themigrantproject.org Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate HTTP Session
_gid themigrantproject.org Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. HTTP Session

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Cookie name Provider Purpose Type Expiry
collect google-analytics.com Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across d evices and marketing channels. Pixel Session
fr facebook.com Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party
advertisers.
HTTP 3 Months
r/collect doubleclick.net Unclassified Pixel Session
tr facebook.com Unclassified Pixel Session

Social website cookies

So you can easily “like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook we have included sharing buttons on our site. These cookies are set by:

  • AddThis

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous visitor statistics cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.

Turning cookies off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser setting to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how here). Doing so, however, will likely limit the functionality of this website, as well as a large proportion of the world’s websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with anti-spyware software.