Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Who We Are

The European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) operates this website: eapp.org

What Personal Data We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the information entered in the comments form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This information helps us detect and prevent spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it.

You can read the Gravatar Privacy Policy. After a comment has been approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the website, please remove embedded location data, including EXIF GPS information. Visitors may be able to download images and extract location information contained within them.

Cookies

Cookies help improve your experience on the website and support its secure operation

• If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies
• Comment-related cookies remain active for one year
• A temporary cookie may be used to check whether your browser accepts cookies
• Login cookies generally remain active for two days
• Screen preference cookies generally remain active for one year
• Selecting Remember Me keeps you logged in for up to two weeks

When you log out, login cookies are removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and records only the post ID of the article. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content behaves in the same way as it would if you visited the external website directly.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, include third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. This may include tracking your activity when you are logged in to an account on that external website.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its associated metadata may be retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For users who register on the website, we store the personal information provided within their user profile.

Registered users may view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators may also view and edit this information where necessary.

Your Data Rights

You may request to:

• receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
• correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
• request the deletion of your personal data where legally permitted;
• contact us with questions about how your information is handled.

These rights do not apply to information that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, security, or regulatory purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service.

Data Security

EAPP takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, disclosure, or alteration.