Privacy Policy

Who we are    

Our website address is https://coeliacbythesea.com.    

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.    

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   Your data may be shared by third party data processors, this is strictly to allow us to provide you with further content that we feel may be of interest, it will not be used by the third parties for any other reason that the given criteria we use it for.   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.  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.  Your contact information  If you choose to opt in to receiving our emails then we will use your email address to contact you with information or content that we feel is relevant to you, you can choose to opt out of this at any time from a link at the bottom of the email. Upon opting out your information will be securely removed from our database and you will no longer receive our emails.     

Additional information    

We may ask when filling out a form on our site that you provide us with information such as your name, age, or other interests. This is purely for us to better understand your interests in helping us understand what content is of interest to you. Any contact forms will be optional and you do not have to share this information with us should you not wish to.  

How we protect your data  

If you data is held for any reason then it is only accessible by administrators of our site or at times viewed and used by third party data processors in order to provide us with a service. It will at no point be able to be accessed by any unauthorised individuals.   

Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and while we will do our best to protect your personal data we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information we operate measures designed to prevent unauthorised access.    

What data breach procedures we have in place    

We have in place measures to deal with a suspected data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.  Your rights  Under the Data Protection Legislation, in certain circumstances you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:  Right to object to data processing: You may withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time, this can be done by emailing the following address contact@coeliacbythesea.co.uk or by opting out of email marketing communications via email communication sent from us. Upon receipt of such notification we will cease processing your personal data and (if requested by you) erase such information if we are not required to retain it for legitimate business or legal purposes.    

Right to access   

You have the right to request access to information we have held about you. We will provide you with a copy of this data free of charge (provided that this request is not excessive or for multiple copies, in which case there may be a charge covering the costs). You may also request certain information about the processing of this data (if not directly collected from you by us). You also have the right to request that your data is transferred to a third party.

Right to restrict processing   

You may ask us to suspend the processing of your data in the following circumstances:  If you think your personal data is inaccurate. Where we are found to be processing unlawfully but you do not want us to erase your personal data Where you need us to continue holding your data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims You have objected to our use of your personal data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.   You have the right to request that we correct or erase any inaccuracies of your personal data if such information would be incomplete, inaccurate or processed unlawfully.  If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding our privacy policy or data processing or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at contact@coeliacbythesea.co.uk