Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://adamsgardens.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments (where this is enabled on specific pages) on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our 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 have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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.

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 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

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

For users that register on our 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.

What rights you have over your data

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

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

All other data, including contact form messages are stored within our database on the website server, which is protected via encryption. Only authorised account holders for the website can access this information, edit it, or delete it.

Your contact information

Any visitor to the site who uses our contact form will have their name, telephone number (if included), email address and message content saved indefinitely within our email system. This is so we can deal with customers on a person to person basis, including follow up works that have been completed and and remedial action that may be required.

Contact information will only be held until such as time as we are happy that you no longer require our services, at which point your information will be deleted from our systems.

We will not use your data for advertising or marketing purposes.

We will not pass on your data to any third parties for such reasons either.

Additional information

How we protect your data & what data breach procedures we have in place

Our website is encrypted on the server to prevent data from being stolen. There are passwords on both the database, as well as provide access to the site itself, ensuring the safety of your personal information.

Our staff are all aware of current data laws and legislation.