Privacy policy

Please read these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with them, please do not use this website.

Terms of Use

This website evolutionarytheodicy.org (‘the website’) is owned and managed by the Evolutionary Theodicy project, managed by Professor Christopher Southgate of the University of Exeter.

For the purposes of these Terms of Use, ‘we’ ‘us’ and ‘our’ refer to the Evolutionary Theodicy project.

Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of these Terms of Use, and your conduct indicates that you agree to be bound by them.

Use

This website is intended to provide information about our activities relevant to our objectives.

We make every effort to ensure that the information on this website is up-to-date and correct, but we cannot guarantee that it is 100% free of inaccuracies, errors or omissions.

We are not responsible for ensuring the availability of this website, or the timeliness or otherwise of any content or information.

We reserve the right to change, replace or amend any part of the website at any time without notice.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to this website. Access to the website is permitted on a temporary basis. We reserve the right to terminate your access to the website or any part of it or to withdraw any of our services at any time, without notice, for any reason (including without limitation any breach of these Terms of Use). Occasionally, we may restrict access to some parts of the website, to the entire website and/or to users who have registered with it.

Any decision made by users on the basis of information on the website, is the responsibility of the user. We do not accept liability (as far as permitted by law) for any loss arising from any use of or reliance on information or links included in this website.

You must not use the website fraudulently or for any unlawful purpose, for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way or to transmit or procure the sending of spam.

Users of this website must not knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other programs which could harm computer software or hardware.

Except as specifically set out in these Terms of Use, to the fullest extent permissible by law, neither the Evolutionary Theodicy project nor any of our affiliates or other representatives will be liable (whether under contract, tort or statute) for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses were foreseeable or not):

  • losses suffered by third parties;
  • loss of data;
  • loss of profit;
  • loss of revenue;
  • loss of business or opportunity;
  • loss of goodwill; or
  • any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages

arising from the use of the website, the inability to use the website, the results of use of the website, any website linked to it or any material contained in the website. For the avoidance of doubt, the losses listed immediately above are intended to be severable.

Nothing in these Terms of Use shall exclude or limit the liability of the Evolutionary Theodicy project for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or for any liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Website Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information.

Any personal information that you provide will be handled confidentially, in line with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

If you would like information about the GDPR, this can be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office through their website www.ico.org.uk.

What information is collected and how it is used

Demographic and statistical information about user behaviour may be collected and used to analyse the effectiveness of the website. Any disclosure of this information will be in aggregate form and will not identify individual users.

You have the option to submit certain information via the website, such as name, contact details and comments. The information may be stored to enable us to respond to your comment or enquiry and provide any requested services.

We do not collect or store any payment card information. Any payment services are provided by a third party.

We do not share your personal information or email address with third parties.

Protection of your information

We use best endeavours to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information.

Any personal information that you provide will be handled confidentially.

It is important to be aware that there is no such thing as “perfect internet security”. This website uses the https protocol to enable its authentication, and to protect the privacy and integrity of exchanged data while in transit.

Cookies

We want to make this website as easy to use and helpful as possible. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, known as ‘cookies’.

These cookies cannot be used to identify you personally and are only used to improve the service offered to users of this website.

You can manage or disable these small files yourself, but some features of the website may not function as a result. To learn more about cookies visit AllAboutCookies.org.

We may in the future use services from a third party such as Google to measure and analyse visitor information. Any information generated by these cookies about your use of this website will be transmitted to and stored by the third party.

We will not use the statistical analytics tools to track or to collect personally identifiable information of visitors to this website. We will not associate any data gathered with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the statistical analytics tools.

To comply with GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011, we will ask for your permission to store cookies on your computer.

Changes to these Terms of Use

We reserve the right to replace or modify these Terms of Use and any linked policies at any time without notice.

Your continued use of the website after any such replacement or modification constitutes acceptance of the relevant changed or new Terms of Use.

If you do not accept such changes then you should stop using our website and contact us if you would like any information removed.

Compensation

You will be responsible for all losses or damages we suffer (including our reasonable legal fees) that are caused by your breach of these Terms of Use or by you using the website.

Governing law

These Terms of Use are subject to English law. All claims or disputes arising out of or in connection with the use of the websites shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Trademarks and copyright

Copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights on this website are either owned by or licensed to the Evolutionary Theodicy project or our clients, unless otherwise stated. Compliance with copyright law is your liability.

Any permission to reproduce our copyright material does not extend to any material on this website that is the copyright material of any other person.

Embedded content from other websites

This site may include embedded content, such as audio or video. Content embedded from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited those other websites. They may collect data about you, use cookies and third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. If you have an account and are logged in to that website, it may trace your interaction with the embedded content.

Such websites are not covered by these Terms of Use. We do not endorse or accept liability for the privacy policy of any third party websites carrying embedded content. It is your responsibility to be aware when you access this content.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites that are outside of our control and are not covered by these Terms of Use. We do not endorse or accept liability for the content or privacy policy of any third party websites linked to the website. It is your responsibility to be aware when you are leaving the website.

We welcome links to the website. Any link must comply with the following conditions:

  1. the link must not create the false impression that you, your organisation, or any of its products or services, is recommended by or associated with us;
  2. the existence of the link, its position, appearance or any other aspect of it must not damage or be likely to damage our name or reputation;
  3. the selected link must display the website as a full screen and not within a frame on the website on which the link appears;
  4. you shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the use and existence of the link does not cause the transmission to the website of viruses or any other harmful programs.

We reserve the right to require the removal of any link to our website at any time (whether or not previous consent to such link has been given).

August 2023