Privacy Notice

Institutional commitment to personal data protection and academic transparency.


1. Identity and Address of the Data Controller

TipoMap Latam is an academic and cultural research initiative coordinated by the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) through the Multimedia Experimentation Laboratory of the Facultad del Hábitat and the Latin American Typographic Research Network (RLIT), in collaboration with research nodes at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), Universidad Diego Portales (UDP - Chile), Universidad Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM - Brazil), and the Asociación Mexicana de Tipografía (AMT).

Institutional Address: Manuel Nava No. 2, Zona Universitaria, C.P. 78290, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., Mexico.
Privacy Contact: privacidad@tipomap.lat.

2. Personal Data Collected and Processed

A. Website Visitors and Users

Public IP address, technical navigation information (User-Agent, screen resolution, operating system), and technical session identifier.

B. Registered Researchers and Collaborators

Full name, institutional or personal email, country, affiliated institution, encrypted access credentials, and editorial audit logs.

C. Cataloged Designers and Authors

Full name, country of origin or residence, city, professional biography, author portrait/photo, public Instagram handle, gender (collected strictly for statistical purposes and historical gap analysis), and intellectual attribution over indexed typeface families.

Source of Data: This information is gathered from publicly accessible sources openly shared by the creators themselves or their distributing entities (personal websites, professional portfolios, public social media profiles, and foundry catalogs), processed solely for academic research, historical preservation, and cultural citation purposes without commercial intent.

3. Purposes of Data Processing

Primary Purposes (Open Research and Cultural Preservation)

Cataloging, preserving, documenting, and disseminating Latin American typographic production; generating open access statistics and historical data visualization; acknowledging moral author rights; and managing platform security and technical administration.

Secondary Purposes:

TipoMap Latam is a non-profit academic initiative. We do not commercialize, monetize, or transfer personal data for advertising, marketing, or commercial profiling purposes.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Processing is carried out under the framework of scientific research, education, and public interest cultural heritage in compliance with applicable Latin American legislation: Mexico's LGPDPPSO and LFPDPPP, Colombia's Law 1581 of 2012, Brazil's LGPD (Art. 7 IV for research entities), Chile's Law 19.628 / 21.719, and international open science principles.

5. Data Transfers and Digital Preservation

Research metadata and catalog records are periodically deposited in open digital preservation repositories (Zenodo / CERN, under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licenses) ensuring persistence and scientific traceability via DOI identifiers. No commercial data transfers are made to private corporations or ad networks.

6. ARCO Rights and Exercise Procedures

You have the right to know what personal data we hold and how it is processed (Access); request corrections or updates to your information (Rectification); request removal when legally appropriate (Cancellation/Erasure); and oppose specific processing activities (Opposition).

To exercise your ARCO rights or request an update/rectification to an author or typeface entry, send an email to privacidad@tipomap.lat specifying your full name, the specific TipoMap Latam record link, and the details of your request. Your request will be addressed within a maximum of 20 business days.

privacidad@tipomap.lat

7. Use of Technical Cookies

This website only uses strictly necessary technical session cookies (PHPSESSID) required for security and administrative authentication, as well as browser local storage (localStorage) for functional interface preferences. We do not use commercial third-party tracking cookies.

8. Privacy Notice Updates

This notice may be updated periodically to reflect technical improvements or regulatory changes. Any updates will be published directly in this section.

Last updated: October 2026.