Please note that Park Lore has a Privacy Policy (this document), a Terms of Use, and a Disclaimers, Copyrights, and Trademarks page. Your use of and access to this Web site indicates that you have reviewed and thoroughly understand the information contained on these pages. You should check these pages from time to time for any changes or updates.
I. Who we are
In this Cookies Statement and Privacy Policy Statement, “We”, “Us” and “Our” mean Park Lore. When we refer to Our website we are referring to any website in the domain parklore.com and the website www.parklore.com.
We aim to make this Privacy Policy as easy to understand as possible. However, if there is anything that doesn’t make sense to you, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are firmly committed to respecting your privacy and complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws.
We have provided this Privacy Policy Statement to help you understand how We collect, use and protect your information when you visit/use Our website and when you generally use Our products and services. If you do submit personal information by ordering products, services, or completing a web form registration, for example, you can be assured that We will only use your personal information for the purpose intended, as illustrated below.
We wish to help you make informed decisions, so please take a few moments to read the sections below and learn how We use your personal information.
II. What data / information We collect and why We collect it
II.A Personal information
II.A.1. Personal information collection
Altogether, functions of this website may collect personal data, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; and technical data, such as cookies. We neither collect nor retain any sensitive personal data, such as health or financial information.
We endeavour to collect and use your personal information only with your knowledge and consent. On Our website, We may collect your personal information for the following:
- General Enquiries
- Mailing List Sign-Ups
- Submit a Job Application
- Questionnaires or Surveys
The type of personal information We collect could include, for example, your name and address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, location, country, biography, website you are linked to or other general information such as lifestyle information collected in surveys or questionnaires.
We will not process any personal data collected through the Website unless We have first told you that We are going to do so, and it is clear how We will use it. By default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users.
II.A.2. How will We use your information?
We use personal data for the following purposes:
- Processing orders.
- Managing or administering your account.
- To provide you with the services you have requested through the Website.
- Responding to complaints or account inquiries.
- To respond to requests for information submitted by you on the website.
- For research purposes and to improve the services We offer.
- In order to comply with Our legal obligations.
- In order to protect Our contractual and other rights. For example, we may pass your details onto a third party should We believe that you have used another person’s credit card fraudulently.
We may also undertake market and product analysis based on your use of Our services and products and contact you with information about new developments, products, services and special offers by post, telephone and automated means such as Email and the internet (subject to any preferences expressed by you).
If you have consented to receive details of products and services, events and training or have signed up to Our newsletter, you can contact Us at any time to have your details removed from lists used by Us for any or all of those purposes.
To update your marketing preferences please email brian@parklore.com using the email address you registered with and, if applicable, quote your account number in the body of the email and tell Us what you want Us to do – i.e. ‘I wish to opt out of receiving your newsletter’.
II.A.3. Disclosure of your personal data
We will not sell or pass your personal information to third parties, unless you have given Us permission or unless it is strictly necessary to deliver products or services ordered or used by you and you are notified beforehand.
For example, we may disclose your data to a credit card company to validate your credit card details and obtain payment when you buy a product or service. We may be obliged to disclose personal data to a third party if We have a legal or regulatory obligation to do so, for example to comply with a court order, or meet obligations in accordance with applicable law.
II.A.4. For how long do we keep information?
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, 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 that they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
To make sure We meet Our legal data protection and privacy obligations, We only hold on to your information for as long as We actually need it for the purposes We acquired it for in the first place. In most cases, this means We will keep your information for as long as you continue to use Our services and are deemed a client, and for a reasonable period of time afterwards if you stop doing so, to see if We can persuade you to come back to Us.
After that We will delete it other than where We lawfully can keep any data for audit or legal reasons. We shall keep your personal information on Our database for not longer than [5] year/s from receipt, subject to an individual’s right to unsubscribe or be forgotten at any time.
II.B. Non-personal information
We may collect information about the software on your computer (your browser version etc.) and your IP address (your connection with the internet) in order to improve your interaction with the Website. This may happen automatically without you being aware of it.
We may use cookies (small text files which We and other website operators store on your computer when you visit our websites) to deliver a better and more personalised interaction. They enable Us to recognise you when you return to the Website, store information about your preferences, and improve the way your searches are processed. This helps Us to better manage and develop Our website, to provide you with a more enjoyable, customised service and experience in the future, and to help Us develop and deliver better products and services tailored to your individual interests and needs.
Cookies also enable Us to generate statistics about the number of visitors We have and how they use the Website and the internet to improve the service We provide. You can set your browser to reject Our cookies if you wish (you should consult your browser help section for details), but this might restrict your use of the Website and other websites. For more information about cookies, please see our cookies statement.
From time to time, if you consented accordingly We may also store and use your information to contact you for market research and marketing purposes. We may contact you by email.
III. Content
III.A 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.
III.B Content
Park Lore reserves the right to republish any comments or articles submitted to it in any medium at any time.
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.
IV. Other websites
IV.A. Social media, blogs, and reviews
Any social media posts or comments you send to Us (on Our Twitter page, for instance) will be shared under the terms of the relevant social media platform (e.g. Twitter) on which they are written and could be made public.
Other people, not Us, control these platforms. We are not responsible for this kind of sharing. We recommend you should review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the social media platforms you use. That way, you will understand how they will use your information, what information relating to you they will place in the public domain, and how you can stop them from doing so if you would like to opt out.
Any blog, review or other posts or comments you make about Us, Our products and services on any of Our blogs, reviews or user community services will be shared with all other members of that service and the public at large. Any comments you make on these services and on social media in general must be not offensive, insulting or defamatory. You are responsible for ensuring that any comments you make comply with any relevant policy on acceptable use of those services.
IV.B. 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.
V. 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.
You can set your browser to reject Our cookies if you wish, but this might restrict your use of Our and other websites. For instructions on deleting or controlling cookies please consult your browser help section or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
VII. Analytics
We use MonsterInsights as Our analytics tool. MonsterInsights Google Analytics application uses the Google Analytics Reporting API to gather analytics about this website and present them to Our administrators.
MonsterInsights discloses client Google Analytics information with prior user consent only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on MonsterInsights behalf or to provide the services available at MonsterInsights websites (ii) and to provide necessary technical support for our services.
You can learn about the use of Google oAuth permissions here.
VIII. Your rights and further information
VII.A. Requesting removal of your information
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.
You can write to Us at any time to request removal of the personal information We may hold about you. Please write to brian@parklore.com.
Please quote your name and address together with your account number, if relevant. We would be grateful if could also provide brief details of why you wish to have your details removed from Our database, however, this is not a requirement.
We will not make any charge for removing any personal information We hold about you. We may take reasonable steps to confirm your identity before removing the personal information We may hold about you; this is for your security.
VIII.B. Access to your information
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. Please write to brian@parklore.com.
Please quote your name and address together with your account number, if relevant. We would be grateful if could also provide brief details of what information you want a copy of – this will help Us to more readily locate your information.
We will not make any charge for providing you with a copy of the personal information We hold about you. We will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing you with details of any personal information We may hold about you.
VIII.C. Information Security
All personal data that you supply Us with from Our website is stored on servers provided by Our hosting provider. We understand that Our hosting provider (Bluehost) only employs servers sited in data centers that have the highest level of security accreditation at the time of implementation. For your protection, We never store any payment details and where possible We store personal data such as passwords, encrypted.
Please also be aware that communications over the Internet, such as emails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered – this is the nature of the World Wide Web/Internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond Our control.
VIII.D. Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
VIII.E. Privacy Policy Support
We reserve the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy Statement at any time and in response to changes in applicable data protection and privacy legislation. Please check back here and review this document to ensure you are conversant and in agreement with Our current Privacy Policy.
We operate an open and transparent privacy policy. If you have any enquiry about Our privacy policy or data collection practices, please write to brian@parklore.com