Who we are
Our website address is: https://linksinlancashire.co.uk
This is a non-profit ‘Family History’ website and personal blog.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments 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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on my 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 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. links to articles, images 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
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have subscribed to the blog 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.
Your contact information
When using the contact form this kind of data collection is known as ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ and is only used to identify a person who has made contact so that the website Author may respond. None of the mandatory information is collected, stored, shared or used for any other purpose.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We strictly restrict the personal data required on this website to only what is necessary for contact purposes via the ‘Contact Form’. Your personal data is not used for any other purpose and does not leave the domain of this website at any time. Any messages you send using the contact form are kept only as long as is necessary, for the purposes of contacting/communicating back with you. You can request at any time that we remove any personal data we hold about you using the contact form.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In case of a data breach the website administrators will immediately inform affected users.