Who we are
We want everyone who supports us to feel confident and comfortable with how any personal information you share with us will be looked after. Our website address is: https://holistic-community.co.uk. This privacy policy confirms how we are committed to securely preserving your personal information. Inclusive any personal details you impart to us, what we learn by interacting with you as a customer along with your marketing choices. This privacy policy further advises you on your privacy rights and how you are protected. You can use the contact page and select compliance from the dropdown menu to contact us for general data protection queries. We are a registered data controller with The Information Commissioner’s Office UK (ICO).
Last Updated 15th September 2022.
Comments/Your Input
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. This is an extremely important part of site security adopted by millions of websites across the world to not only protect themselves from onerous spamming but also hackers.
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/s.
Media (Images)
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.
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.
How You Are Protected
We take looking after your information very seriously. We’ve implemented appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both on and off-line, from improper access, use, alteration, destruction and loss. Unfortunately the transmission of information using the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information sent to us this way, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our site.
As well as our Privacy Policy, your privacy is protected by law. The law states that your personal information can be used only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it away from this site.
The law states we must have one or more of these reasons:
- To fulfil a contract we have with you, or
- When it is our legal duty, or
- When it is in our legitimate interest, or
- When you consent to it.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. Furthermore your personal data is protected by legal rights including:
- object to our processing of your personal data;
- request that your personal data is erased or corrected;
- request access to your personal data.
For more information or to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us using the ‘contact’ form as previously advised. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/concerns/, which regulates the processing of personal data.
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. Currently we do not use or rely on any embedded content as at 15th September 2022. If this changes this Privacy Policy notice will be updated.
Our website may contain links to other sites. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. Please be aware that advertisers or Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. This privacy statement does not cover the information practices of those websites or advertisers.
Who we share your data with
IP address: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. However as and when this changes this Privacy Policy will be updated. If our business model changes we may, by law, be required to share your information with:
- Agents and advisers who we use to help run your accounts and services, collect what you owe and explore new ways of doing business
- HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities
- UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme
- Credit reference agencies
- Fraud prevention agencies
- Companies we have a joint venture or agreement to co-operate with
- Organisations that introduce you to us
- Companies that we introduce you to
- Companies you ask us to share your data with
In addition to the above, should we undergo a major company restructuring, then your data will be used by the new organisation in the same way as set out in this notice.
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
SPAM detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs)
We do not carry out credit and identity checks either on you as an individual or through a business (Ltd Co).
For your information you can find out more about the CRAs on their websites, in the Credit Reference Agency Information Notice. This includes details about:
- Who they are
- The data they hold and how they use it
- Their role as fraud prevention agencies
- How they share personal information
- How long they can keep data
- Your data protection rights.
Here are the three main Credit Reference Agencies:
- TransUnion (Previously Callcredit)
- Equifax
- Experian