Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how I use any personal information I collect about you when you use this website.

What information do I collect about you?

I collect information about you when you voluntarily provide feedback and contact me. Website usage information is collected using cookies.

How will I use the information about you?

I may collect information about you to email you about other products and services I think may be of interest to you.

I may use your information collected from the website to personalise your repeat visits to my website.

Roger Garside reserves the right to share your information for marketing purposes with other companies and partner organisations.

Marketing

If you contact me via the website or signup to receive my newsletter I would like to send you information related to our services, which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt out at a later date.

You have a right at any time to stop me from contacting you for marketing purposes.

Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that I hold about you.

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

I want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask me to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email me through the contact form on the website. We may make a small charge for this service.

Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity.

If you leave a comment on my 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 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.

I use Google Analytics to track how users interact with my website and improve the user experience. The tool captures information about website visitors, including IP address, date and time people visited our site and the individual pages viewed, which is then processed by Google’s servers in the United States. Google does not associate this data with any other data held by Google. Google Analytics uses the following cookies to track user interaction:

_ga cookie – is used to identify unique users and it expires after 2 years.

_gat cookie – is used to throttle the request rate and it expires after 1 minute.

_utma cookie – is a persistent cookie which remains on a computer, unless it expires or the cookie cache is cleared. It tracks visitor metrics including first visit and last visit.

_utmb cookie & __utmc cookie – are used to calculate user visit length, including arrival time and exit time of the user. _utmb is a sessional cookie and the _utmc cookie expires if no new page view is recorded within 30 minutes.

_utmz cookie – monitors where a visitor arrived from (search engine, organic, social media or direct) and what keyword is generated and and geolocation data. This cookie lasts 6 months.

_utmv cookie – is a persistent cookie used to improve audience segmentation.

You can read more about Google’s privacy policy at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

For further information about cookies, visit:

www.aboutcookies.org or

www.allaboutcookies.org

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

Embedded content and other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) or links to other websites. 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

How long I retain your data

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

For users that register on my 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.

Where we send your data

Data entered via our website may be sent and stored via our web host, Square Space, whose servers comply with EU’s GDPR regulations.

How I protect your data

I take data protection seriously and therefore use SSL encryption on my website to limit the ability of unauthorised people to see information communicated between website users and my website. Square Space also implements a website firewall and regular anti-virus scanning to try and prevent intrusion. Finally, I purposefully limit the amount of data I collect about website visitors and do not share any data to third parties (unless legally required to do so) in order to minimise our exposure in the unlikely event of a breach.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach, I have a protocol in place to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office and all our registered website users, in line with legally required timelines. However, as I do not collect personal information about general website visitors I do not have a protocol in place for contacting general website visitors in case of a breach.

What third parties I receive data from

I do not receive information about website visitors from third party services.

What automated decision making and/or profiling do I do with user data?

I do not undertake any automated decision making or profiling based on user data I receive via the website or other third party services.

Changes to our privacy policy

I keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 5 September 2021.

How to contact me

Please contact me if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:

by the contact form on this website.