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Collecting your personal data:

Affiliate links

This website uses affiliate links, which are links to products or services that generate a small commission when a visitor makes a purchase through that link. In order to achieve this, the user is tracked with digital technology such as but not limited to cookies. Your data is not used in any other way and I have no access to it. See the full privacy policy on the platfom’s website: https://www.cj.com/legal/privacy-policy-services-uk#_What_Personal_Data

Analytics

Anonymised data is collected to record the number of visitors to this site. Information collected includes the country the user is from and what link, keywords or search engine brought the user here. No personal or specific information is recorded or collected.

Comments

This site uses WordPress and as such, when visitors leave comments on the site, WordPress default data such as the data as shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string is collected to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment and the only thing that is visible to the public is what you write in your comments and your name and profile picture.

Contact/Customer Service and subscription forms

If you use our contact form and/or subscription form to contact us for customer service or to subscribe, the information you enter such as but not limited to, your name, email address and message content may be stored indefinitely to contact you to assist with your enquiry and to send you emails about new articles and/or products. Your details are not sold to any third parties and you may unsubscribe at any time.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Downloads

Both free and paid downloads will collect information specified in the download form, as well as your payment method.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Provision of technical support

Websites built on WordPress relies on plugins to function. Occasionally, technical support is required to troubleshoot malfunctioning plugins. Information may be collected from technical support staff to assist with troubleshooting, including email addresses and names. Sample test data such as test purchases, test bookings and test contact form enquiries may be shared with technical support. These test data are entirely fictional.

Other plugins created by third parties are used to augment services and functionality of the website. Each service provider has their own specific privacy policy but your personal information that identifies you, are not collected and only uses your anonymised information such as but not included to, your IP address and proxy IP address.

Who we share your data with

Apart from the services and functions that are used to run this website, your information is not sold or distributed to anyone, except where required by law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Service providers that provides functionality to this site may also have anonymised information of visitors. Where required by law, any information we hold may be passed on to law enforcement.