Privacy Policy

Last updated: 8 July 2026

This website is operated by Sebastián Valdivieso as a personal and professional website. The website address is: https://www.sebastianvaldivieso.com.

This website is intended to provide information about my professional background, work, research, public commentary, and related projects.

Information collected through the contact form

This website includes a contact form. If you choose to contact me through that form, you may provide your name, email address, and the content of your message.

This information is used only to respond to your enquiry, maintain professional correspondence, or follow up on a matter you have raised.

I do not sell personal information. I do not use contact form submissions for automated marketing. I do not add people to mailing lists through this website without their consent.

Please avoid sending confidential, sensitive, or highly personal information through the contact form.

Technical information

Like most websites, this website and its hosting or security services may process limited technical information necessary for the website to function securely and properly. This may include information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, date and time of visit, and similar technical data.

This information may be processed for purposes such as website security, spam prevention, technical maintenance, performance monitoring, and protection against misuse.

Cookies

This website may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary for basic website functionality, security, performance, or administration.

At present, this website is not intended to use cookies for advertising, behavioural profiling, or remarketing.

If embedded content, spam-prevention tools, security tools, or other third-party services are enabled, those services may use cookies or process limited technical information in accordance with their own privacy practices.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this website may include embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, maps, articles, or other external materials.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly. Those websites may collect data, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, or monitor interaction with that embedded content, depending on their own privacy policies and settings.

Comments, user accounts, and uploads

This website is not intended to allow public comments, visitor user accounts, or public media uploads.

If these features are enabled in the future, this Privacy Policy may be updated.

Sharing of information

I do not sell, rent, or trade personal information.

Information submitted through the contact form may be processed by the website, hosting provider, email provider, form plugin, spam-prevention service, security tools, or other technical service providers necessary to operate the website and receive messages.

Retention of information

Messages submitted through the contact form may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the enquiry, maintain professional correspondence, keep appropriate records, or comply with legal, administrative, or security requirements.

Your rights

If you have submitted personal information through this website, you may contact me to request access to that information, correction of inaccurate information, or deletion of information, subject to any legal, administrative, or security requirements that may apply.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or about information submitted through this website, please contact me through the contact form available on this website.