Who we are

At Green Eco Friend we take your privacy very seriously. We, as individuals, don’t like businesses selling our personal details to unscrupulous marketing and PPI firms (grr) so please be assured that we will never sell, rent or trade email lists for marketing purposes.

There are however certain details that are collected from you when you visit this website. Please read on so that we can explain in detail how we keep your information secure, when and why information is collected, how we use it and under what (limited) circumstances it may be disclosed to others.

Our website address is: https://greenecofriend.co.uk

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.

Please never post personal information about yourself in a comment on this website (such as your address or other contact details) unless you’re happy for that to be publicly available.

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 contact us through an embedded contact form or via social media there is the implication that you are providing your information voluntarily and understand that to contact you back that information has to be stored.

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 don’t 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.

Please read our full Cookie Policy.

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

This website uses Google Analytics to find out how the website is being used and which pages are visited the most or least. This information helps us to improve the content available to you or even to help us improve the format of the website.

Who we share your data with

Your data will not be sold, rented or shared with any marketing firms. However plugins and tools used to help this website run smoothly and function well do collect your data. Tools and plugins include Ocean WP, Bluehost, WPForms, OptinMonster, Elementor & Google Analytics.

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.

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.

Contact information

For more information or to contact us please email [email protected]

Additional information

How we protect your data

This website encrypts your data to protect it from sophisticated hacking schemes. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

This website has SiteLock Security – SiteLock is a cloud-based security tool that scans the website for malware and vulnerabilities. SiteLock not only detects threats, but can also fix problems or security risks it encounters ensuring that your data remains secure.

This Privacy Policy will be updated as and when required, so please check back regularly. This policy was last updated on 30/11/23