Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is:https://www.princeofwaleshamhill.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.

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 use a contact form on our site, we collect the data you enter, including your name, email address, and message. We keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt-in.

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.

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

We use Google Analytics to collect anonymous data about the usage of our website to help us improve our content. This data includes IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, and time spent on the site. You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Who We Share Your Data With

[If you share data with third parties, list them here. Common examples include:]

  • Visitor comments: May be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet).
  • Email marketing: If you have a newsletter, data is shared with [Mailchimp/ConvertKit/etc].
  • Payment processors: If you accept payments, data is shared with [PayPal/Stripe].
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.

Contact Information

If you have any specific concerns regarding your privacy, you can contact us at:

  • Email: officetheprinceofwales@gmail.com
  • Mailing Address: The Prince of Wales,
    Ham Hill,
    Stoke Sub Hamdon,
    Somerset, TA14 6RW