Last updated: 3 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Animal Nutrition Academy handles personal data when you visit this website, access its content, or contact us about its activities.
1. Who we are
Animal Nutrition Academy connects nutritional science with commercial practice through publishing, education, and industry collaborations.
The website is operated by Ioannis Mavromichalis, MSc, PhD, who is the data controller responsible for personal data processed in connection with this website and related correspondence.
Website: animalnutritionacademy.com
Email: [email protected]
2. Scope and data protection commitments
This policy covers website visits, downloads, technical records, and correspondence concerning Animal Nutrition Academy, including publishing collaborations, sponsored educational projects, permissions, and syndication inquiries.
Animal Nutrition Academy is committed to handling personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Regulation (EU) 2016/679, and applicable national data protection and electronic communications legislation.
Our approach is to collect only information needed for a stated purpose, use it lawfully and transparently, protect it appropriately, and retain it only for as long as necessary.
This policy includes processing carried out by service providers on our behalf. Independent third-party websites and services have their own privacy policies.
3. Website comments
Comments are disabled on this website. Visitors cannot submit comments or provide personal information through comment forms.
You may contact us by email with questions, corrections, or feedback.
If any personal data remains from comments submitted before comments were disabled, it remains subject to the retention provisions and privacy rights described in this policy.
4. Email and other correspondence
If you contact us, we process the information you provide, such as your name, email address, professional affiliation, message, and attachments.
We use this information to respond, manage the relevant inquiry or project, and maintain necessary correspondence records. This may include records concerning collaborations, permissions, corrections, sponsorship, or syndication.
Contacting us does not automatically subscribe you to marketing communications.
Please provide only information relevant to your inquiry and avoid sending unnecessary sensitive personal data.
5. Technical information
The website and its service providers may process technical information when you visit, including:
- IP address;
- browser, device, and operating system information;
- referring pages;
- pages accessed and files requested;
- dates and times of access;
- server, error, and security records.
This information supports website delivery, maintenance, troubleshooting, security, and prevention of misuse. Some technical information, including IP addresses, may constitute personal data.
Browsing the website and downloading publicly available material do not require you to provide your name or email address.
6. Cookies
The website may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for operation, security, or delivery of requested functions.
Animal Nutrition Academy does not currently use cookies for behavioural advertising or commercial profiling.
Where non-essential cookies require consent, they must not be activated before that consent is obtained. Simply visiting the website does not constitute consent to non-essential cookies.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may affect some website functions.
7. Legal bases for processing
Depending on the purpose, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Legitimate interests: operating and securing the website, preventing misuse, responding to professional correspondence, managing relevant business relationships, and protecting legal rights, subject to balancing these interests against your rights.
- Consent: any optional processing for which consent is specifically requested.
- Contractual necessity: processing needed to perform an agreement with you or take steps at your request before entering one.
- Legal obligations: processing necessary to meet applicable statutory or regulatory requirements.
Voluntarily sending an email does not, by itself, constitute GDPR consent for unrelated uses of your information.
8. Analytics and advertising
Animal Nutrition Academy does not currently use personal data for behavioural advertising or commercial profiling.
Basic website statistics may be used to understand website use and improve its operation. These are distinct from technical records needed for security and delivery.
If additional analytics or advertising tools are introduced, this policy and any necessary cookie information or consent controls will be updated before the relevant processing begins.
9. Sharing and service providers
We do not sell personal data.
Information may be processed by providers supporting hosting, content delivery, email, security, backups, and website maintenance.
Relevant information may also be shared with professional advisers, project participants where necessary to manage your inquiry or an agreed collaboration, or authorities where legally required.
Sharing is limited to the relevant purpose. Providers processing personal data on our behalf must be subject to appropriate data processing arrangements and confidentiality and security obligations.
A publishing collaboration or sponsorship does not, by itself, give a partner access to private correspondence or visitor information.
10. International transfers
Some service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.
Transfers subject to the GDPR must meet its international transfer requirements. Depending on the circumstances, this may involve an applicable European Commission adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses and supplementary measures where needed.
You may contact us for information about safeguards relevant to your personal data.
11. Retention
Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for its purpose:
- Correspondence: as needed to respond, resolve the matter, and maintain relevant professional records.
- Project and agreement records: as needed to administer collaborations, sponsorships, permissions, or syndication arrangements and meet applicable legal requirements.
- Technical logs: for periods proportionate to operational and security needs.
- Any historical comment records: only where continued retention is justified, subject to applicable privacy rights.
Information may also be retained where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
When information is no longer needed, it is deleted or anonymised. Copies in backups may remain until the relevant backup cycle expires and must remain protected during that period.
12. Security
Animal Nutrition Academy is responsible for applying appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or destruction.
Measures must be proportionate to the information and risks involved, including appropriate access restrictions and secure arrangements with service providers.
No website or email system can guarantee absolute security. Suspected personal data breaches will be assessed and handled in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
13. Your rights
Under the GDPR, and subject to the conditions applicable to each right, you may request:
- access to your personal data;
- correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
- erasure of personal data;
- restriction of processing;
- portability of eligible data;
- cessation of processing based on legitimate interests, by exercising your right to object.
Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing.
Send requests to [email protected]. We may request limited additional information where reasonably necessary to verify your identity.
Requests are normally handled without charge and answered within one month. Where legally permitted, this may be extended by up to two further months; you will be informed within the initial month and given the reason.
You may complain directly to a competent supervisory authority, including the Hellenic Data Protection Authority. You do not need to contact us first.
14. External links and embedded content
Links may direct you to publishers, collaborators, industry organisations, or other external services. Their handling of personal data is governed by their own policies.
Where external content is embedded, its provider may receive technical information when that content loads or you interact with it. Any consent required for non-essential cookies or tracking must be obtained before activation.
15. Children and automated processing
This website is intended for professional and educational use and is not directed at children. If you believe a child has provided personal data requiring attention, please contact us.
Security tools may use automated processing to detect threats or prevent misuse. Animal Nutrition Academy does not use personal data for decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects on individuals.
16. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated to reflect changes in website functions, activities, service providers, or legal requirements.
The current version will appear on this page with its revision date. Additional notice or renewed consent will be provided where required.
Changes to this policy do not themselves authorise new uses of personal data.
17. Contact
For privacy questions or requests concerning your personal data, contact:
Ioannis Mavromichalis, MSc, PhD
Email: [email protected]