Hosting & Basic Data Collection
This website is hosted by WordPress. WordPress collects personal data when you visit this website, including information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. WordPress needs this data to run this website and protect and improve its platform and services.
Cookies
We do our very best not to track you unnecessarily. However, this site uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files that download to your device when you visit our website.
Functional and required cookies are always used to securely serve this website to you and make it work properly.
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our site so we can improve it. These are subject to your consent in many regions and can be easily disabled through the cookie banner.
Contact Form & Comments
We collect personal information when you contact us through our contact form. This may include your name, email, phone number and any other information you voluntarily include in your message. We will only use this information to respond to your request. We will never use this information to market to you.
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.
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 a similar 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.
Newsletter
We use Mailchimp to deliver our newsletter, subject to your consent. Mailchimp gathers statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies. We select our service providers carefully to ensure they provide sufficient data protection guarantees under European Data Protection legislation.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button in any newsletter email.
Third Party Services
Mailchimp: Newsletter management and delivery
Google Drive: Email processing and storage
WordPress: Website hosting and functionality
These services have their own privacy policies and may use cookies.
Sharing Data with Third Parties
Under some circumstances we may be obligated to share personal data with third parties, including law enforcement should this be required for the investigation, detection, or prosecution of criminal offences. We may share your personal data for purposes of a business deal, or negotiation of a business deal, involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets.
Your Rights
Under European Data Protection Law you have the right to:
- Request a copy of the information we hold about you
- Request correction of any mistakes in your data
- Restrict or object to processing of your personal data
- Have your data permanently erased (unless we must retain it for legal compliance)
- Object to processing based on legitimate interest
- Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details above.
International Data Transfers
We rely on third party services like Mailchimp and Google Drive to be efficient and effective. Data protection compliance is important in our service selection. Some services may transfer data outside of the EU/EEA using appropriate safeguards like Standard Contractual Clauses or European Commission adequacy decisions.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy from time to time and the amended policy will be posted on the website immediately.