Last updated: 2 July 2026
Welcome to Animal Nutrition Academy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is treated when you visit this website or access the Feeds & Feeding series.
This Privacy Policy applies only to this website and to matters relating to the Feeds & Feeding series. It does not apply to any consulting, advisory, commercial, formulation, veterinary, or professional services offered or provided outside this website.
1. Who we are
Animal Nutrition Academy is a personal editorial initiative providing access to the Feeds & Feeding technical publication series.
For matters relating to this Privacy Policy, you may contact:
Ioannis Mavromichalis, MSc, PhD
Email: [email protected]
For the purposes of applicable data protection law, the person responsible for handling any personal data relating to this website is the website operator/editor, unless otherwise stated.
2. Scope of this privacy policy
This Privacy Policy applies when you:
- visit the Animal Nutrition Academy website;
- access or download Feeds & Feeding issues;
- use website pages, archives, or indexes.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, services, social media pages, hosting providers, technical service providers, or external links that may be accessible from this website. Those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices. If users choose to follow Feeds & Feeding through LinkedIn or another third-party platform, their use of that platform is governed by that platform’s own privacy policy and terms.
3. Personal data collection
Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively or intentionally collect personal data from users through this website.
The website does not currently include:
- user registration;
- user accounts;
- payment processing;
- online ordering;
- contact forms;
- newsletter or subscription forms;
- comments;
- forums;
- user uploads;
- advertising tools;
- behavioural tracking;
- profiling;
- automated decision-making.
Because Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively collect personal data through website features, the website does not create the same data-security risks associated with user accounts, payments, contact forms, subscriptions, user databases, commercial profiling, or behavioural advertising.
If you choose to contact Animal Nutrition Academy by email, any personal data you provide in that email, such as your name, email address, affiliation, or message content, will be processed only for the purpose of reading, responding to, and keeping a reasonable record of the correspondence.
Please do not send confidential, sensitive, or unnecessary personal data by email.
4. Technical data and server logs
Although Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively or intentionally collect personal data through website features, limited technical data may be processed automatically when the website is accessed.
Such technical data may be collected or processed by the website hosting provider, domain provider, security tools, content delivery services, or similar technical providers. This may include technical information such as:
- IP address;
- browser type and version;
- device type;
- operating system;
- referring website or page;
- pages accessed;
- date and time of access;
- files requested or downloaded;
- basic server, error, or security logs.
This technical data, if collected, is processed by technical service providers for purposes such as operating the website, delivering pages and files, maintaining security, preventing misuse, troubleshooting errors, and protecting the website from unauthorised access or technical problems.
Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively collect this technical data for its own purposes, does not have routine access to hosting-provider server logs or similar technical records, does not use such data to identify individual users, does not create user profiles, does not sell personal data, and does not commercialise such data in any way.
The collection, storage, retention, security, and processing of such technical data by hosting providers or other technical service providers may be governed by their own privacy policies, security practices, and legal obligations, and may be outside the direct control of Animal Nutrition Academy.
5. Cookies
Animal Nutrition Academy does not intentionally use cookies for advertising, behavioural tracking, profiling, or analytics.
The website host may use strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies if required for basic website operation, security, content delivery, or technical functionality.
6. Analytics
Animal Nutrition Academy does not currently use analytics tools for behavioural tracking, profiling, targeted advertising, user identification, or commercialisation of user data.
If basic website statistics are made available by the hosting provider, Animal Nutrition Academy does not use them to identify individual users, create profiles, sell data, or commercialise personal data.
7. Legal bases for processing
Where applicable data protection law applies, any limited processing of personal data relating to this website may be based on one or more of the following legal bases:
- Legitimate interests, including operating, maintaining, securing, and protecting the website;
- Consent, where you voluntarily contact Animal Nutrition Academy by email;
- Legal obligation, where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law;
- Legal claims, where processing is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.
8. Sharing of personal data
Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively collect or sell personal data.
Any personal data or technical data relating to this website may be processed or accessed only where reasonably necessary by:
- website hosting providers;
- domain or technical service providers;
- email service providers, if you contact Animal Nutrition Academy by email;
- website security, backup, or maintenance providers;
- legal, accounting, technical, or professional advisers, if necessary;
- public authorities, regulators, courts, or other parties where required by law;
- parties involved in protecting rights, preventing misuse, responding to security incidents, or enforcing website terms.
Any such sharing should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
9. International transfers
Some technical service providers, hosting providers, domain providers, or email providers may process data outside your country or outside the European Economic Area.
Where applicable data protection law requires safeguards for international transfers, Animal Nutrition Academy aims to rely on appropriate safeguards, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
10. Data retention
Animal Nutrition Academy does not intentionally retain personal data collected through website features because such features are not currently provided.
Technical logs may be retained by hosting, domain, security, or technical service providers for limited periods according to their own operational, security, and legal requirements.
Email correspondence, if you choose to contact Animal Nutrition Academy, may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain records, manage permissions or corrections, or protect legal rights.
When personal data is no longer needed, it should be deleted, anonymised, or securely retained only where required or permitted by law.
11. Data security
Animal Nutrition Academy aims to use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect the website and any related personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
Because Animal Nutrition Academy does not actively collect personal data through website features, it does not maintain user accounts, payment records, user databases, subscription databases, contact-form submissions, or behavioural profiles through this website.
However, no website, email system, server, hosting provider, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should avoid sending confidential, sensitive, or unnecessary personal data through this website or by email.
12. Your rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- request access to your personal data;
- request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
- request deletion of personal data;
- request restriction of processing;
- object to certain processing;
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
- request data portability where applicable;
- lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
To exercise your rights, you may contact:
Before responding to a request, reasonable steps may be taken to verify your identity and confirm that the request relates to personal data connected with this website.
13. Complaints
If you believe that your personal data has been handled improperly, you are encouraged to contact Animal Nutrition Academy first so the matter can be reviewed.
You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority in your country or jurisdiction.
14. Children’s privacy
This website is intended for professional, educational, and technical reference use in the field of animal nutrition. It is not directed at children.
Animal Nutrition Academy does not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe that a child has provided personal data in connection with this website, please contact Animal Nutrition Academy so the matter can be reviewed.
15. Artificial intelligence, automated processing, and profiling
Animal Nutrition Academy does not use personal data connected with this website for automated decision-making, behavioural profiling, or AI-based decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on users.
This section does not concern the separate restriction on the use of Feeds & Feeding content for artificial intelligence training, text and data mining, or automated extraction, which is addressed in the Terms of Use.
16. Changes to this privacy policy
Animal Nutrition Academy may update or revise this Privacy Policy from time to time.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after any changes means that you have read the updated Privacy Policy.
17. Contact
Questions about this Privacy Policy or the handling of personal data in connection with this website may be directed to:
Ioannis Mavromichalis, MSc, PhD
Email: [email protected]