Janes Candles is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy
This webpage tells you the data protection and privacy practices for JanesCandles.co.uk, specifically:
- What personally identifiable information is collected
- Which organisation is collecting this information
- How this information is used
- Our policy on sharing this information
- How we protect your information
- How you can correct any inaccuracies in this information
Plain English Summary
We take your privacy very seriously.
Children (under 18s) are not eligible to use our services and should not submit any personal information to JanesCandles.co.uk.
JanesCandles.co.uk does not actively track you as an individual.
Should you send us an email via the contact form, your name, email address and message will be emailed to us (as you would expect). This information is kept private. We will store this information within our own email system so that we are able to respond to you.
Should you comment on a blog post or web page on this site, then your name, email address, IP address and message will be stored in our website database (as you would expect). This makes your name, website address and comment (but not your email address) viewable by the general public on the website.
The website does use some cookies when you browse this website. These are used to ensure proper running of this website, and also to help us improve your experience when browsing.
We do not use Advertising cookies.
NONE OF THE INFORMATION WE GATHER VIA COOKIES IDENTIFIES YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL – IT IS ALL ENTIRELY ANONYMOUS.
The cookies we use are detailed below:
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudfare | Third Party | 11 Months | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. |
| Cookie Law Info | persistant | 1 hour | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| Third Party | 26 Months | Like most websites, this website uses Google Analytics tracking to monitor user interaction. We may use this data to assess the number of people visiting our site and their engagement with our content to better understand their behaviour and to ultimately provide a better user experience. Though Google Analytics records data such as your device, Internet browser, operating system and geographical location, none of this information is personally identifiable to us.Google Analytics also records your computer's IP address, which could be used to personally identify you, but Google Analytics does not grant us access to this information.Subsequently, any requests for the retrieval of personally identifiable data that is recorded and stored by Google Analytics should be submitted directly to Google. | |
| Janes Candles | persistent | 12 months | We may use this data to assess the number of people visiting our site and their engagement with our content to better understand their behaviour and to ultimately provide a better user experience. |
| Wordpress | persistant | 12 months | Wordpress is the Content Management System (CMS) that runs this website. It uses a cookie when logging in and out and is essential for proper website operation. It his only set if you are a registered user, so for most people it is not set at all. User data is all anonymous. |
To delete the cookie used to remember if you have viewed this policy or not, click here: Delete Cookies
How this information is used
If you have chosen to share it with us, we use your email address to contact you in reply to your message, or to send you our newsletter. If you have entered your email address to leave a comment on the blog, it is used to identify your comment, however it is not displayed on the website or shared with any third party.
We may also use your email to help resolve issues or disputes, for example if you tell us that you cannot see any of your posts on the website, we would probably search our database using your email address to help diagnose the problem.
Our disclosure of this information
We do not share your personal information or email address with third parties.
Email opt-out
Just like you, we hate spam. We do not send you spam emails.
You may opt-out of our emails at any time. An ‘unsubscribe’ link is included in all of our email newsletters.
Protection of your information
JanesCandles.co.uk uses best endeavour to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information we do use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. We do believe that the personal information we collect warrants this level of security. It is important to be aware that there is no such thing as “perfect internet security”.
How to correct inaccurate information
Once posted, you cannot change or remove any comments you have submitted on our website pages and/or posts. However, if you would like to have this information removed please contact us and we will do this for you.
You should know that because of technical constraints, all information is never completely removed from our databases. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests that it be removed. We will aim to remove all publicly-facing information.
How to contact us
Please use the contact form to contact us.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy in line with website changes that may affect the personal information we gather about you. It is assumed that you accept such changes if you continue to use the site and services. If you do not accept such changes then you should stop using JanesCandles.co.uk’s website and services, and contact us (details above) if you would like any information removed.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 16th March 2019.