Privacy

This Privacy Policy explains how this website collects, uses, and protects personal information submitted through the site. The website is presented as the official online profile for Dr. Samantha Israel Iwowo and is intended for professional, academic, media, and public-engagement use.

By using the site or submitting information through the contact form, you acknowledge that limited personal information may be processed for communication, site administration, security, and record-keeping purposes.

Information may be collected when you submit an enquiry through the contact form. This may include your name, email address, subject line, enquiry type, and any information you choose to include in your message.

Basic technical information such as browser type, device information, referring pages, and approximate usage data may also be processed through normal website hosting, analytics, security, or server logging tools where these are active.

Personal information is used only for legitimate professional purposes, including responding to enquiries, evaluating requests for speaking, teaching, research collaboration, media activity, or project discussions, and maintaining a record of communications where reasonably necessary.

Information may also be used to maintain website security, monitor technical performance, prevent misuse, and improve the clarity and usefulness of the site.

Where applicable, information is processed on the basis of legitimate interests, consent given through voluntary submission, or steps taken at the request of the individual before entering into a professional arrangement.

Submitted information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the enquiry, maintain administrative records, comply with legal obligations, or protect the integrity and security of the site and its communications.

Personal information is not sold. Information may be processed by carefully selected service providers involved in website hosting, form delivery, communications, analytics, or security, but only where relevant to operating the site.

Information may also be disclosed where disclosure is required by law, necessary to protect rights or safety, or reasonably required in connection with legal or regulatory obligations.

This website may use cookies or similar technologies for essential site operation, analytics, performance, or embedded media such as video playback. External platforms such as YouTube or social-sharing services may set their own cookies or collect data when their content is loaded.

You can usually control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling some cookies may affect site functionality or embedded media behaviour.

Depending on your location and the applicable law, you may have rights to request access to personal information, correction of inaccurate information, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to certain processing activities, or withdrawal of consent where consent is relied upon.

Requests relating to privacy, data access, correction, or deletion can be made through the contact page. Reasonable steps may be taken to verify identity before acting on a request.

Privacy-related questions should be sent through the contact page with a clear subject line indicating that the request concerns privacy or data protection.

This policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in the website, its functionality, legal requirements, or administrative practice. The current version published on the site will apply from the date of publication.