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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 peopleās 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 usersā consent to our policy terms in accordance with its legislation. The …
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 āThe Story of Usā. Whilst such terms and conditions …
The Privacy Policy
Data ProtectionāThe Story of Usā 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 …
Graph Theory behind The Story of Us
Taking the principles of graph theory into account, the most important centrality for our application, will be eigenvector, as we will initially be linking to local funeral directors, stone masons, florists, and memorial services, all of which are already established within the area. This notion is based on the concept of preferential attachment, by which …
Triadic Closure
The principle of triadic closure is that if two people in a social network have a friend in common, then there is an increased probability that they will become friends at some point in the future. For example, if there were three people within a network, A, B, and C, if A and B are …