Who we are

Our website address is: https://hfbpublishing.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 contact us via our contact form, you are agreeing to be contacted via the information you provide to either answer your question or provide information to you. If you do not wish to be contacted at all you have the option to not fill in the contact form and get in touch with us.

All information you give us via the contact form is confidential and will not be shared with any other persons unless you have specifically asked us to.

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.

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.

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

In order to help us determine which of our content visitors like or do not like, we use Google analytics to determine where visitors go to on our site and what they look at. This data is provided by Google and gives us information on pages viewed, where people landed, where they went next and what they clicked on. It may also give information about demographics and browsing data.

Who we share your data with

We allow Google Analytics to monitor our site and view the data information on visitors and the pages they go to. We also may share consented data with our email newsletter host.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Any contact information you provide us will be under the strict rule that it is done so in order for us to provide you with some information or answer a question. We do not store contact information following this exchange.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We protect the data we store by using secure password software services, utilising reputable companies for email services and following rules and guidelines set out by HMRC.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive data from third parties, including but not limited to – social media platforms, email newsletter service providers, Google Analytics and business listing information sites.