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. Your user profile will remain on our website indefinitely unless you choose to delete it.
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. Click here to view the gravatar privacy policy.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Your comment will remain on our website indefinitely unless you choose to delete it.
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. Your media will remain on our website indefinitely unless you choose to delete it.
Our general contact form is used for our legitimate business interests, such as booking enquiries and general correspondence. Contact submitted through this form is delivered to our email address via a 3rd party SMTP service (Gmail Oauth2.0) to ensure email delivery.
We also utilise Cognito Forms for membership signups.
This data is held indefinitely unless you ask us to remove it.
We use Woocommerce with third party payment portals (paypal & stripe) to enable sales on our website.
If you choose to place an order with us, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, phone number, shipping address & billing address.
We will retain information from customer orders for up to 5 years unless you ask us to remove it.
We may use push notification from OneSignal to notify our readers whenever we publish or update a blog post.
Our push notification subscribers are collected automatically from our website when a user chooses to opt into this service. We do not collect any information from our push notifications list which would allow us to personally identify individual users.
Users will continue to receive push notifications indefinitely unless they choose to opt out.
To continually improve user experience on our website, we make use of different usage monitoring services.
We use Google Analytics, a service which records website traffic and monitors. We do not collect any information from analytics which would allow us to personally identify individual users.
You can opt out of google analytic tracking when you first visit our website by selecting 'functional only' cookies.
For a list of cookies utilized on this site please view our cookie policy.
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.
Your will only be shared with approved members of our organisation, web administrators (where necessary) & any relevant 3rd party service providers detailed in the ‘WHAT DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT’ section above.
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 other personal data we hold about you by contacting us directly. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
To contact us about any privacy concerns, please contact us directly.
