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Privacy Policy

Susan Dobson T/A The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company

Tel: 07823 347 561

Email: susan@yorkshiredalesflowers.co.uk

Information Collection and Use

The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company collects information from our users at a number of different points depending on how you use and interact with our website.

Cookies

We may use a number of different cookies on this website. For detailed cookie information please see our cookie policy.

Log File Analytics & Google Analytics

Our web server records IP addresses and writes these to log files that allow us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information to see how visitors use and interact with our website.

Google Analytics is implemented on this website and collects various data points from visitors to the website. IP Addresses are used to distinguish visitor numbers to the website. Google Analytics will record the country you access this website from using your IP Address. Data gathered by Google Analytics allows us to analyse visitor numbers on this website, track user’s movement around the website and from page to page, we use this information see how visitors use and interact with our website. Google Analytics data is stored for a period of 26 months which allows us to build a year upon year picture of visitor numbers to our website.

Data gathered by Google Analytics may be stored outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=en&gl=de
You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB

Contact Form & Email Submissions

If you submit an enquiry through our contact form or via email, that enquiry will be emailed to a mailbox monitored by employees of The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company, the email is then stored securely on our email server which enables us to respond to your enquiry.

Your enquiry may be forwarded to one or multiple mailboxes within The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company to ensure it is dealt with and acted upon by the apprioriate person. If you submit an enquiry through our contact form or via email a copy of that message will be stored on our web server and will be deleted after 14 days or once the enquiry is effectively dealt with.

SSL Encryption

This website utilises SSL encryption. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client (e.g., Outlook).

SSL allows sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and login credentials to be transmitted securely.

Website Backups

This website is backed up on a regular basis for security and disaster recovery purposes. The backups are stored securely with Dropbox. Dropbox may store these backups outside of the European Union in line with its undertakings through the EU-US Privacy Shield Program. Further information can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/privacy

Website backups will be stored for a maximum of 30 days before being deleted.

Services & Contracts

When you order a service with The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company, the company or individual details provided to us will be entered in to our accounting system. The details entered are Company or Individual Name, Contact Name, Contact Address, Contact Email Address.

It is important to note that accounting records relating to orders for services placed with The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company will be stored for a period in line with U.K. tax and accounting regulations. This period is set by the U.K. Government and is currently 6 years, or longer if the records show a transaction that covers more than one accounting period.

Links to other websites

This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.

Embedded content from other websites

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

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Cookie Policy

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

The cookies we set are all non-essential cookies that are used to collect information for making reports about how people use our website and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form.

The list below describe the cookies we use on this site and what we use them for. We currently place these cookies using Implied Consent – if you are not happy with the usage of cookies on this website, then you should delete the cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies

This website uses no First Party Cookies

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your computer or device by external websites whose services are used on this site.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such information.

Google Analytics

Cookie Name: _ga – Expires after 2 years – This cookie is used to distinguish users.
Cookie Name: _gid – Expires after 24 hours – This cookie is used to distinguish users.

Cookie Name: _gat – Expires after 1 minute – This cookie is used to throttle request rate.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-GB

WordPress.com

Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Data Collected: Anonymous (Browser Information, Cookie Data , Date/Time, Demographic Data, Page Views )
Pseudonymous (IP Address (EU PII))
PII (Email Address, Login)
Sensitive (Financial Information)

Data Sharing: Aggregate data is shared with 3rd parties.

Data Retention:
Undisclosed

 

External Websites

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the cookie policies of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the cookie policies of each and every website that they visit. This cookie policy applies solely to this website.

Accessing & Updating Your Information

You have the right to access, update and delete your personal information. You retain all rights to your personal information and data and can access it at anytime. The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company will take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal information.

It is important to note that as stated in our privacy policy, there may be times, due to legal and regulatory requirements, that we are unable to delete your personal information, particularly in relation to orders placed with us.

If you would like to access your personal data or know what data The Yorkshire Dales Flower Company holds about you, please contact us using the details below:

Phone: 07823 347 561

Email Susan Dobson: susan@yorkshiredalesflowers.co.uk

We aim to acknowledge data access requests within five working days of receipt. We aim to fully respond to access requests within 30 days.

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