Who we are and Our Principles
This website is published and managed by Postland Developments Limited, a member of Postland Group Limited. We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. Our policy can be summarised in one sentence:
We WILL NOT share your information with others without your consent.
We have established the following three principles:
- We will not share any user details (including your email address) with any third party without your consent.
- All data and traffic on Postland.co.uk is encrypted using an SSL certificate.
- We will respect your email privacy. You will only receive emails from Postland in relation to areas you have expressly signed up for, or as a confirmation of account updates you have actioned, or as a responce to emails or contact us forms sent by you.
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you on how we gather, define, and utilise your Information (as defined below).
- It applies to Information collected by us or provided by you over our Website or Mobile versions there of.
- All your personal Information shall be held and used in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and national laws implementing GDPR and any legislation that replaces it in whole or in part and any other legislation relating to the protection of personal data.
If you want to know what information we collect and hold about you, or to exercise any of your rights as set out below, please write to us at the below address or via email at info@postland.co.uk:
Postal Address: Postland Group, Poplar Farm, Coates, Peterborough, Cambs, PE7 2DU
Postland Developments Limited is the controller of your Information for the purposes of the GDPR and is a company registered under number 06660923 and VAT number 114053071.
Please take time to read and understand the policy in full.
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 anonymised 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
If you fill out any of our contact us forms you may provide us with personal information such as name, postcode, email address and telephone number. You may provide us with Information in a number of ways:
- by supplying us with the Information as listed above, on an individual basis by subscribing to our email database to receive occasional e-newsletters about current and future developments, offers, news etc. from us;
- by filling in the contact form on our website;
- by corresponding with us by email, in which case we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses;
- we may collect Information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system, browser type and the geographical location of your computer, for system administration purposes.
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 visit our login page, 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.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. However, please note that if you choose to disable cookies, then parts of this website may not function correctly.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to allow us to analyse the traffic to our site and to review a number of statistics regarding our visitors. An overview of Google Analytics privacy policy can be found here:
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Who we share your data with
We will not share any information we hold about you with others without your prior consent.
Your information will not be visible to anyone else and will be solely used by Postland Group Limited and its directly associated companies in relation to areas you have expressly signed up for.
You have the right to request details of the information we hold about you. To do this, you should write to the address below. We will respond to your request within 40 days of receiving the written request. You have the right to request that we update or correct any information we hold about you. Please contact us using the details below to let us know what needs correcting
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the information we hold about you is kept secure.
We will only hold your personal data for as long as it is required to carry out each processing activity.
We will delete or anonymise* personal data if, after a period of seven years, we have not had any contact or communication from you, subject to special circumstances concerning legacies.
* Anonymisation, means that it no longer continues to be personal data that will identify you.
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. Otherwise we will not share any information we hold about you with others without your prior consent.
Postland Contact Information
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you either by using the contact us form or:
By email: info@postland.co.uk:
By post: Poplar Farm, Coates, Peterborough, Cambs, PE7 2DU
For more information about your legal rights in relation to the information we hold about you, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk
Additional information
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on 08 August 2019.
What Else Should You Know About Privacy
Remember to log off and close your browser when you have finished your session. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet cafe. You as an individual are responsible for the security of, and access to, your own computer.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your usernames and passwords and any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are using the Internet.
Our pages may contain links to other websites, and you should be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices on other websites.
