Privacy Policy & Cookies
Intro
The purpose of this statement is to inform users of this website about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users’ privacy.
Security
Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.
You have a right to access the personal information held about you at any time. If you wish to do this, please locate our contact details on this website, a small fee will be applicable to cover time and admin fees.
The owner and creator of this website accepts no responsibility and shall not be liable for any loss, disruption or damage to any data or computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website or any other website you visit.
Newsletters
If you sign up to receive newsletters via this website we will use the information you give us to provide the service(s) you have requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel a subscription we will remove you from our mailing list and your details will be deleted from our records. A newsletter subscription may also capture statistics such as open and links clicked to give us an indication of the popularity of the content and to help us make decisions about future content and formatting.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies – what are cookies and how to manage them.
Our Use of Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally and aid us with providing a better website. In particular we use Google Analytics to do this, also to enhance your social experience there may be cookies from Facebook and Twitter for example.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
How To Opt Out
When using this website to opt out of cookie please adjust the setting in your browser, more information can be found here.
First Party Cookies
These are files directly related to this website to help it function, common ones are related to a Contents Management System such as WordPress.
3rd Party Cookies
We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. The owners and creator of this website does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
- Google Analytics – _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz – To analyse website traffic – Google Privacy Policy
Other 3rd Parties
Due to the abilty to embed content from 3rd parties within websites, in particular with blogs other cookies may be present, for example with a Youtube Video, Flickr Photos or Vimeo Video. A wordpress website also uses 3rd party plugins and we are not responsible for these.
Links to another website from this one
This website contains links to other websites. The owner or creator is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites . You should be aware of this when you leave this website and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.
Changes to this privacy policy
We keep our privacy notice under review. This privacy notice was last updated on 25 May 2012. If an authority feels this does not comply in some way please advise through the contact details on this website.