The Open Book Collective (OBC) takes privacy extremely seriously. Under GDPR legislation you have the right to withdraw your consent to our use of this data. 

The OBC only collects the data that is required in order to provide services to you, that is:

• Presenting information about open-access book publishing initiatives
• Allowing you to sign up to support such initiatives
• Processing payments to such initiatives
• Contacting us via our contact form
• Monitoring our infrastructure for bugs or security issues
• Non intrusive cookies to track how users are interacting with the site. If you wish to contact us to discuss any data we may have about you, you can contact us at info@openbookcollective.org.

Data Sharing 

We may share some of your data with external persons for the following purposes only:

• Invoicing Updates on publishing activities

Automation 

• Intrepid (our software platform) does not profile your data in order to make an automated decisions.

Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Maintenance of login sessions
• Prevention of cross site request forgery

We collect some personal data for the following purposes and using the following services:

• Contacting the Team Contact form Personal Data: email address
• Infrastructure monitoring Sentry and Uptime Robot Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service: https://sentry.io/privacy/ & https://uptimerobot.com/privacyPolicy

Registration and authentication

Personal Data: country, email address, first name, last name, and affiliated institution.

We additionally collect Facebook, Twitter, Github and Linkedin handles (optionally).

You can download the Open Book Collective Privacy Statement here.

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