Privacy Policy

Plain and simple: The sole purpose of this website is to provide information about the research project "Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World". We take the principle of minimal data collection serious and try hard not to collect or process any personal data beyond the basics required to serve and maintain the website.

Specifically,

• We do not use cookies.
• We do not use third party analytics.
• There is no contact form that would allow you to enter personal data.
• We do not use advertising to run this website.

In order to serve this website, we collect and process your IP Address and information about your browser, operating system and screen resolution. Highlandasia.net is a simple, handcrafted, static website hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS, S3, CloudFront). It uses fonts by Adobe Typekit. Both Amazon and Adobe automatically collect usage data, either generated by the use of this website or from the service infrastructure itself. This data is used for accounting and analytic purposes as well as for technical maintenance. For these services, neither Adobe nor Amazon use cookies to track you. Specifics can be found in their respective privacy policies.

However, some pages on this website may include embedded audiovisual content hosted by third parties such as Youtube or Vimeo. Depending on your browser configuration, these third parties may use cookies and other tracking technologies as stated in their respective privacy policies.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by mail: Highland Asia Research Group, LMU Munich, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 Munich, Germany.

This privacy policy has been updated on 28 September 2018.