Terms of Use

• User privacy and data protection are human rights
• We have a duty of care to the people within our data
• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary

You must be over the age of 18 to register with READ.

As a user of READ, you must agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions.

READ permits users to download its content free of charge. To prevent unreasonable use of the repository, bulk downloads have been disabled. If you need a specific bulk cache of documents, please contact us.

Unauthorised use and/or duplication of material found on READ, without the prior express permission of READ administrators, is strictly prohibited. To maintain the integrity of READ, documents are uniquely watermarked to each user. We reserve the right to disable users’ account where there has been unreasonable use of READ.

Content found on READ may be cited in reports, articles, and other publications, provided that full and clear reference is given to the Repository of Extremist Aligned Documents (READ) at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London.

Much of the material on READ contains explicit, offensive, and sensitive content. This can include mentions of, among others, violence, rape, and gore. Though we have endeavoured to tag this material as explicit, users should be aware that not all material will have been tagged as such. By registering with READ, users acknowledge that they may be exposed to explicit, offensive, and sensitive content.

This website is the property of King’s College London and ICSR. It contains third party materials some of which are under copyright. Every effort has been made to comply with copyright law, and all users of the site should respect these rights. Should there be a complaint about the inclusion of any of the materials on the site, this should be directed to the ICSR where it will be investigated.

If your material has been uploaded to READ and you wish to have it removed, please contact us.

We welcome comments or queries about this privacy notice and our information handling practices. If you wish to provide comments, update any of your preferences or exercise any of your rights you can contact us. We will respond to you within ten days of receiving your enquiry.

We are the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, part of King’s College London. If you need to contact us about this privacy notice, please write to [email protected]

We process your personal information in order to provide access to the READ database.

Data protection legislation allows us to use your personal information in this way because it is required to deliver an agreement we have with you. You may withdraw your consent at any time by writing to [email protected]

We aim to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

• UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
• EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
• EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR) (under Article 6 of the UK GDPR, the lawful process for holding personal data is (a) consent. Under Article 9 of the UK GDPR, the lawful basis for holding special category data is (i) archiving, research and statistics)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found at the bottom of this page) for clarification.

You must provide the personal information requested by the registration form. If you do not, you will not be given access to the READ database.

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. Google Analytics also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor.

Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. Our website uses the analytics.js implementation of Google Analytics. Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop Google Analytics from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

We will keep your information indefinitely.

We will not share your information with any external organisations. We do not sell, rent or otherwise distribute your information to any organisations. We sometimes need to share your information with a third party, our website designer. We do this securely and with a data sharing agreement in place. On rare occasions, we may be required or permitted to share personal information by law (e.g for law enforcement purposes).

To find out more about how the university deals with your personal information, including your rights and who to contact if you have a concern, please see the university’s core privacy notice at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/terms/privacy.aspx

Should you choose to use the contact form on our Contact Us page, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any of the third-party data processors listed below. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

If you choose to register for READ, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to MailChimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider MailChimp to be a third-party data processor. The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp’s services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

While your email address remains within the MailChimp database, you may receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.

This website is hosted by Mayk within a data centre located in the United Kingdom. All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. All of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

• Google (Privacy policy)
• Mailchimp (Privacy policy)

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third-party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

The data controller of this website is: International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), a UK charity:

Whose address is:
Department of War Studies
King’s College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS

Johanna Inness
Head of Operations
Email: [email protected]

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below. Updated 28/10/21