Category: Academic

Digital Literacy

The Web 2.0 can be considered a continually evolving artefact and social entity that is shaped by its individual users. Social networking applications are built upon the foundation of participation, and users of these platforms have the chance to share and create their own information, and consume the information created by others (Yoram, 2004). Moreover, …

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Our Use of Cookies

Cookies are small text files that store key-value information about the client’s browsing history, user preferences, and searches. They are stored on the client’s device, rather than the server, and record a user’s interaction with a specific website. As a stateless interaction, the use of cookies will provide us with a means of recording the …

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Compliance with the GDPR

The main focus of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the protection of personal data and people’s digital privacy. This new legal framework, ordered by the European Union, takes effect on the 25th of May 2018 and we must therefore insure our users’ consent to our policy terms in accordance with its legislation. The …

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Terms and Conditions

In addition to a privacy policy, our application will have a Terms and Conditions agreement, which will act as a contract between us and our users, informing the users of the rules, terms and guidelines they will need to follow in order to access and use “The Story of Us”. Whilst such terms and conditions …

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The Privacy Policy

Data Protection“The Story of Us” will include a privacy policy; an agreement required by law between us and our users, which will detail how we will be handling any of their personal data. As our application will not require any billing or shipping addresses, or credit/debit card information, the main privacy concerns will feature around …

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