Privacy Policy
About
Unlike the privacy policy on most websites, ours isn't adapted from a template, or just copied and pasted from wherever; it's been painstakingly written out by a human, who has considered what the website does, how you are most likely going to interact with it and what (if any) aspects of it impact your personal data. Crucially, it's been written so you can:
- Understand it.
- Isn't so long and laborious that you can't be bothered to read it.
As such, our policy doesn't use lots of fancy legal language and might contain the odd typo. it is also a work in progress; we update our policy as our understanding of the new GDPR legislation changes and as we improve our website and add or remove elements.
Overview
{{ We respect your right to privacy and will always do our absolute best to ensure we conform to not just the law at the time, but also our moral obligation to you. That's why we will never allow anyone to use your data unless legally required to do so, and we will always keep it secure and (where possible) will remove all trace of it at your request.
Normally we only hold names and email addresses, but at times we may hold other identifiable data about you, gathered with your consent, to carry out our day to day contact with you. Although we do not sell anything to visitors to this site, in all instances this data is destroyed, once it is no longer relevant or required, or is a legal requirement for us to retain. In which case we can hold data for up to seven years. }}
Cookies: Our site uses them!
{{ Cookies are little bits of software that are added to your computer as you use and interact with websites. They are used mostly for good: To improve your experience, sometimes for bad: Google, Facebook and other use them to track what a computer (the computer, not the person) is looking at. People like Google will use them mainly to target you with adverts and for "analytics", which means it will build a profile of what you do online. You will get these cookies added to your computer when you land on certain websites, like Google, Youtube, Facebook etc. As well as this we've added some Cookies to our site, mainly so we can be sure to only show you certain content once, most typically things like popups.
Cookies can sound a bit Orwellian and "Big Brother", but mostly they're pretty harmless and unless you land on a website that requests your data and you offer it, the data they hold is mostly anonymous, they don't have your name and email address, etc.You can clear out your cookies by clearing your browser history.
As we said though, our site from time to time will use cookies (never for data gathering or advertising), so if this bothers you, you'd best leave the site and clear your cookies. You'd also be wise to install a cookie manager, so that you can see what websites install what cookies, as most have them but few admit to it. }}
IP Address
{{ An IP address is a number that identifies your computer on the internet. Lots of services, like You Tube, Facebook etc, requires that our website send them your IP address before they will allow our site to display things like embedded video, or Facebook elements, and so on. In reality your IP address isn't personal data, as 99% of the time you can't really be identified by it, but some consider it so, so to keep ourselves in the clear we've added this bit to our privacy policy: On occasion we will share your IP address with some service providers. If this bothers you, leave our website now. }}
Emails
Emails are normally kept until our inbox is over-flowing and we have a clear out to delete all the old ones. We never use addresses obtained from emails for anything other than responding to the emails you send us. We don't harvest these emails for other purposes. Once we clear out our inbox and delete old emails from you, your details are gone.
Data Protection Officer
If you have any questions about our privacy policy and your data, or would like to inspect the data we hold in the first instance contact us using the details on our regular contact page making the subject of any emails "FAO: Data Protection Officer".
In most circumstances, we will respond within 30 days with the data requested.
If we suspect any abuses of this requirement (multiply requests in a short space of time etc.), we reserve the right to refuse.
For most requests to be processed, we will need you to prove who you are and that you have a lawful right to access the data.