1. Introduction
1.1 I am committed to safeguarding the privacy of my website visitors.
1.2 This policy applies where I am acting as a data controller with respect to their personal data; in other words, where I determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
1.3 In this policy, "I", "me" and "mine" refers to Gary Eason, operating the website lasercruising.org.uk.
2. Credit
2.1 This document was adapted from a template from SEQ Legal https://seqlegal.com
3. How I use your personal data
3.1 In this Section 3 I have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that I may process;
(c) the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 I may process data about your use of my website and services ("usage data"). These may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your use. Sources of the usage data are AwardSpace and Google Analytics. These data may be processed to analyse the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving my website and services.
3.3 I may process information that you post for publication on my website ("publication data"). The data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of my website.
3.4 I may process information contained in any enquiry you submit to me ("enquiry data"). This may be processed for the purposes of assisting you. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and me and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.5 I may process contact information ("relationship data"). These data may include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between me and you or your employer. The source of the data is you or your employer. The data may be processed for the purposes of managing my relationships with website visitors, communicating with them, keeping records of those communications and promoting my website. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely the proper management of my customer relationships.
3.6 I may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to me ("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of my website and communications with users.
3.7 I may also process information from you to inform my picture captions and website articles. The legal basis for this processing is the data protection exemption for journalistic, artistic, literary or academic purposes. However, it is my policy to be open and honest and to tell you when I wish to publish any information I have obtained from you.
3.8 I may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of my legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.9 I may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is my legitimate interests, namely protecting myself against risks.
3.10 In addition to the specific purposes for which I may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, I may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which I are subject, or to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.11 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless I prompt you to do so. If you do need to provide a friend's address, please ensure you have their authorisation to do so.
4. Providing your personal data to others
4.1 I may disclose your personal data to my contacts insofar as reasonably necessary to fulfil your enquiries.
4.2 I may disclose your personal data to my insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
4.3 I may disclose your enquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on my website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can provide you with the relevant goods and/or services. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the enquiry data that I supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will make available to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your personal data.
4.4 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, I may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which I am subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your personal data
5.1 In this Section 5, I provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
5.2 The hosting facilities for my website are maintained by awardspace.com, represented within the EEA by Attractsoft GmbH, registered in Germany, Registration No.: HRB 7963 KI and its affiliates. Their privacy policy may be viewed here: https://www.awardspace.com/privacy-policy/
5.3 Email correspondence and some file storage is handled by Google, based in the USA. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/".
5.4 My files are backed up in encrypted form on a commercial service, BackBlaze, in secure data centres in California, USA. You can read about their privacy policy at: https://www.backblaze.com/company/privacy.html
5.5 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through my website may be available, via the internet, around the world. I cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
6.1 This Section 6 sets out my data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that I comply with my legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
6.2 Personal data that I process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
6.3 I will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Relationship data will be retained for a maximum period of seven years, to comply with the legal requirements of HMRC.
(b) Correspondence data may be retained indefinitely based on my assessment - for example, because of an ongoing dialogue with regular clients, or the likelihood of a repeat enquiry.
6.5 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, I may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which I are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Amendments
7.1 I may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on my website.
7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
8. Your rights
8.1 In this Section 8, I have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in my summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
8.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.
8.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not I process your personal data and, where I do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, I will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.
8.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
8.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
8.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; I no longer need the personal data for the purposes of my processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, I may continue to store your personal data. However, I will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
8.7 You have the right to object to my processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by me or by a third party. If you make such an objection, I will cease to process the personal information unless I can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
8.8 You have the right to object to my processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, I will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
8.9 You have the right to object to my processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
8.10 If you consider that my processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
8.12 To the extent that the legal basis for my processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
8.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to me, in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 8.
9. About cookies
9.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
9.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
9.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that I store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
10. Cookies that I use
10.1 My service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit my website.
10.2 My website is hosted by AwardSpace. You can read their cookies policy at: https://www.awardspace.com/privacy-policy/
10.4 I use Google Analytics to analyse the use of my website and blogs. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/".
10.5 I publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on my website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on my website and on other websites across the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
11. Managing cookies
11.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies (Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
(e) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
12.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
12.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on my website.
12. My details
12.1 This website is owned and operated by Gary Eason. My address is
14 Scarletts Road,
Colchester,
Essex,
CO1 2EZ
12.3 You can contact me:
(a) by post, to the postal address given above;
(b) by email, using the address lasercruising@gmail.com.
Thank you.