This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 2018 (the Act) we are the data controller. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Ric Grant.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
When you use our website or email us, your IP address, operating system name and version, and web browser name and version may be stored for a short period of time in various server logs. These logs persist for a period of about one week and are referred to when investigating security or technical issues.
When using our website, we may create a browser cookie, or initiate a 'session' between your computer and our server to distinguish you from other users of our website. If we create a cookie, we might store information in this cookie such as your website username. If we initiate a session, such information is stored for a short time on our servers under a unique identifier and this identifier is stored in a 'session cookie' by your browser. Sessions are expired after a period of about 20 minutes from your last activity on the website, at which point any data stored is erased. Cookies and sessions help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our site.
Our websites use Google Analytics to record and report on analytical information, such as the number of visits we receive during a particular time period or the ratio of desktop and mobile visits. Google Analytics creates the following cookies to store and collect aggregate information and transmits this aggregate information to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings within your web browser settings, however, please note that doing so may disrupt some functionality of our website.
You may opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser extension but please be aware that doing so reduces the accuracy of our website analytics and might make it more difficult for us to provide a useful service. For example if we determine that a feature of our website is rarely used we might replace that feature without knowing that a number of visitors actually do appreciate that feature but have opted out of analytical tracking.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
We follow strict security procedures regarding how your personal information is stored and used, and who sees it, to help stop any unauthorised person getting hold of it.
This website uses obfuscation techniques when storing all personally identifiable information and potentially sensitive information such as discussion messages. Passwords are stored as salted, one-way encryption hashes.
We take security extremely seriously but as no system is 100% secure, we can’t completely guarantee the protection of your personal information, any more than any other organisation can. We can’t accept any liability for the loss, theft, or misuse of the personal information which you've provided if there is a security breach.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
We use information held about you in the following ways:
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You have the right to access information held about you and to request removal of such information. Please contact us if you'd like your information to be removed from our systems and we'll do everything we can to fulfil such request within a reasonable time period. Please be aware that under some circumstances we may not be able to immediately fulfil your request, for example if you're awaiting an order from us and we need to retain your information while processing your order.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.