Privacy and data use
This page explains how HAAbase Windmills handles limited visitor data, how site content may be used, and the terms that apply to the text, images, and compiled material published on this website.
General approach
HAAbase Windmills is an independent research-led heritage register. The site is intended as a public reference resource, and only limited information is collected and used in connection with its operation, security, and improvement.
The site is not operated for advertising purposes, and visitor information is not sold or used to build marketing profiles. Any technical data collected through normal website operation is used only in a proportionate way to maintain, monitor, and improve the service.
Technical information collected automatically
As with most websites, limited technical information may be recorded automatically when you visit the site. This may include the date and time of access, pages requested, browser type, device type, referring page, IP-related technical data, and similar information needed for normal site delivery, security, diagnostics, and performance monitoring.
This information is used only for legitimate website administration purposes, including maintaining service availability, investigating faults, monitoring performance, and protecting the site from misuse or malicious traffic.
Analytics
This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to help understand overall traffic and page use. This is used only to monitor and improve the site, for example by showing which pages are most used, how visitors reach the site, and broad patterns of device or location use.
We do not use analytics cookies for this purpose, and analytics information is reviewed only in aggregated form. The information available through this service is limited to general usage data such as page views, referrers, broad device information, and broad location information.
Contact and correspondence
If you contact the project by email or by any contact method provided on the site, the information you supply will be used only to respond to your enquiry, manage related correspondence, and maintain any necessary project records arising from that contact.
Contact information will not be used for unrelated marketing purposes, and it will not be shared except where reasonably necessary for hosting, email handling, site administration, or where disclosure is required by law.
External services and links
This website may use third-party services to support hosting, content delivery, security, mapping, analytics, or other technical functions necessary for the operation of the site. These services may process limited technical data as part of delivering their function.
The site may also contain links to external websites, archives, heritage records, or other resources. Once you leave this website, the content, privacy practices, and terms of those external sites are outside the control of HAAbase Windmills.
Use of site content and images
Unless otherwise stated, the text, photographs, research compilation, database-style arrangement, and overall presentation of this website are protected by copyright and related rights. All photographs and images published on the site remain the property of their respective rights holder unless expressly stated otherwise.
Content on this site is provided for personal, private, educational, and non-commercial reference use only. It may not be copied, republished, redistributed, scraped, harvested, bulk-downloaded, or reused in other websites, databases, publications, social media, commercial products, or other projects without prior permission.
Data extraction, scraping, and AI use
Systematic extraction of material from this website is not permitted. This includes bulk copying, scraping, harvesting, automated downloading, or the reuse of text, images, structured data, or compiled site content for database building, aggregation, republication, or similar purposes without prior written permission.
Site content, including images, text, and compiled data, may not be used to train, fine-tune, populate, or support artificial intelligence systems, machine learning datasets, automated collections, or comparable tools without prior written permission.
Image protection
Reasonable technical and practical measures may be used to discourage unauthorised copying or reuse of images and other site material. These may include reduced web resolution, watermarking, hotlink protection, or similar safeguards appropriate to the operation of the site.
Such measures are intended to protect original research and photographic work, but they do not imply that any image or content is free for reuse where copying has remained technically possible.
Accuracy, revision, and data retention
Information published on HAAbase Windmills is research-led and may be revised as new evidence becomes available. Technical records, logs, correspondence, and related administrative material are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for security, site management, troubleshooting, record-keeping, or responding to enquiries.
The site aims to handle information responsibly and proportionately, but no online service can guarantee absolute security in all circumstances.
Permissions and enquiries
If you wish to reproduce, quote substantially from, reuse, or license any text, image, or other content from this site, permission should be requested first. The same applies if you have a question about privacy, data use, or the handling of material published on the website.
Contact details should be provided here, or through the contact information made available elsewhere on the site.