PRIVACY POLICY

Who We Are
Our website address is: www.themolingcompany.co.uk

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.

An anonymized string generated from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. You can view the service’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if applicable) will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location details from images on the site.

Cookies
When you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies will remain for one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon logging in, we create cookies to save your login details and display preferences. Login cookies remain active for two days, while screen options cookies last for one year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.

When you edit or publish an article, a cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply stores the ID of the post you edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from external sites behaves as if you visited the external site directly.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content, especially if you are logged into their platform.

Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to automatically approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in moderation.

For users who register on our site (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal data at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also access and edit this information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you provided. You can also request that we delete any personal data we have, except for data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Consent Management Privacy
We use the consent management tool “consentmanager” from consentmanager AB (Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden, mail@consentmanager.net) to obtain consent for data processing and cookie usage. This tool allows you to manage your consent preferences for various website functionalities, such as embedding external content, streaming, statistical analysis, and personalized advertising.

By using this tool, your personal data and device information, including your IP address, may be processed. The information may also be stored on your device.

The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c) in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 3 sentence 1 lit. a) in conjunction with Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR and, in the alternative, lit. f). The purpose of using this tool is to help us comply with legal obligations regarding data processing consent. Your preferences will be stored for two years, after which you will be asked to consent again.

You can object to the processing of your data by emailing mail@consentmanager.net.

Cookies Policy

How We Use Cookies
Cookies are small files placed on your device that help analyze web traffic or recognize you when you visit a website. They enable web applications to respond to you as an individual by tailoring content to your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being visited. This helps us analyze web traffic data and improve our website. The data is used solely for statistical analysis and is removed from the system afterward.

We also use third-party cookies from advertisers, including Google AdSense. You can modify your browser settings to decline cookies, although this may affect your website experience.

Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons to collect data when ads are displayed.

Overall, cookies help us provide a better experience by tracking which pages are useful. Cookies do not grant us access to your computer or personal information unless you choose to share it.

You can accept or decline cookies. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can modify your settings to reject them. However, this may limit certain website features.

We also use third-party tracking systems, such as Statcounter and Google Analytics. Please review their privacy policies for further information.

We collaborate with third-party advertisers to display ads. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to display relevant ads. For more information or to opt out, click here: Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.

Google uses cookies to serve ads on our site. You can opt out of Google’s DART cookie usage by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. However, you can restrict or block cookies through your browser settings.

For further details, visit www.aboutcookies.org for instructions on managing cookies on various browsers.

Links to Other Websites
Our site may include links to external websites. Once you leave our site, we have no control over the privacy policies of other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection of any data you provide while visiting such sites. Please review their privacy policies accordingly.

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services

Many websites and apps use Google services to improve their content and keep it free. When they integrate our services, these sites and apps share information with Google.

For example, when you visit a website that uses advertising services such as AdSense, including analytics tools such as Google Analytics, or embeds video content from YouTube, your web browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes the URL of the page that you’re visiting and your IP address. We may also set cookies on your browser or read cookies that are already there. Apps that use Google advertising services also share information with Google, such as the name of the app and a unique identifier for advertising.

Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver our services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse and personalise content and ads that you see on Google and on our partners’ sites and apps. See our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we process data for each of these purposes, and our Advertising page for more about Google ads, how your information is used in the context of advertising and how long Google stores this information.

Our Privacy Policy explains the legal grounds that Google relies upon to process your information – for example, we may process your information with your consent or to pursue legitimate interests such as providing, maintaining and improving our services to meet the needs of our users.

Sometimes, when processing information shared with us by sites and apps, those sites and apps will ask for your consent before allowing Google to process your information. For example, a banner may appear on a site asking for consent for Google to process the information that site collects. When that happens, we will respect the purposes described in the consent that you give to the site or app, rather than the legal grounds described in the Google Privacy Policy. If you want to change or withdraw your consent, you should visit the site or app in question to do so.

Ad personalisation

If ad personalisation is turned on, Google will use your information to make your ads more useful for you. For example, a website that sells mountain bikes might use Google’s ad services. After you visit that site, you could see an ad for mountain bikes on a different site that shows ads served by Google.

If ad personalisation is off, Google will not collect or use your information to create an ad profile or personalise the ads that Google shows to you. You will still see ads, but they may not be as useful. Ads may still be based on the topic of the website or app that you’re looking at, your current search terms or on your general location, but not on your interests, search history or browsing history. Your information can still be used for the other purposes mentioned above, such as to measure the effectiveness of advertising and protect against fraud and abuse.

When you interact with a website or app that uses Google services, you may be asked to choose whether you want to see personalised ads from ad providers, including Google. Regardless of your choice, Google will not personalise the ads that you see if your ad personalisation setting is off or your account is ineligible for personalised ads.

You can see and control what information we use to show you ads by visiting your ad settings.

How you can control the information collected by Google on these sites and apps

Here are some of the ways you can control the information that is shared by your device when you visit or interact with sites and apps that use Google services:

• Ad Settings helps you to control ads that you see on Google services (such as Google Search or YouTube), or on non-Google websites and apps that use Google ad services. You can also learn how ads are personalised, opt out of ad personalisation and block specific advertisers.

• If you are signed in to your Google Account, and depending on your Account settings, My Activity allows you to review and control data that’s created when you use Google services, including the information that we collect from the sites and apps that you have visited. You can browse by date and by topic, and delete part or all of your activity.

• Many websites and apps use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with their sites or apps. If you don’t want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on. Learn more about Google Analytics and privacy.

• Incognito mode in Chrome allows you to browse the web without recording web pages and files in your browser or Account history (unless you choose to sign in). Cookies are deleted after you’ve closed all of your incognito windows and tabs, and your bookmarks and settings are stored until you delete them. Learn more about cookies.

• Many browsers, including Chrome, allow you to block third-party cookies. You can also clear any existing cookies from within your browser. Learn more about managing cookies in Chrome.

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

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