Orb-star Media Privacy Policy.
It is the Orb-star Media policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you or which you may provide to us, in the circumstances set out below. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, safeguard and otherwise make use of your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”). We will only collect and use your Personal Data where:
• we have lawful grounds to do so, including to comply with our legal obligations;
• we are performing a contract with you for our services; and
• we have legitimate interests in using your Personal Data and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), we, Orb-star Media are the “data controller”. If you have any questions about this policy or about how we use your Personal Data, please contact us via our contact details at the end of this policy. This policy is effective as of 13/11/18. We review our privacy practices on an ongoing basis, and as such we may change this privacy policy from time to time. Please check this page frequently to ensure you are familiar with its current content.
1. Personal Data we collect via the “Website”
Personal Data that you provide to us. We only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact with us on the Website in the following ways:
Activity: When you sign-up to receive free content, including
eBooks and offers;
Type of personal data collected: Email address, First name
Activity: When you complete the media ‘contact’ form
Type of personal data collected: Email address, First name, Any text you enter into the ‘Subject’ field, Any text you enter into the ‘Message’ field, Any Personal Data which you provide to us in the free text boxes of the form.
Data that we collect automatically
We automatically collect certain information when you visit our Website – such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider. We do not link this information with any Personal Data. We may also collect data automatically through our use of cookies on the Website. Please see our cookie policy on this page to find out about the types of cookies we set and why, and how you can adjust your settings to disable cookies.
2. Use of your Personal Data
We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your Personal Data to:
• process and manage your use of our website;
• respond to your questions, comments and requests;
• where you have opted-in to receive marketing from us, deliver communications that are relevant to your preferences / may be of interest to you;
• improve our services and Website through analysis of information
3. Sharing of your Personal Data
We take your privacy seriously and will not share your Personal Data with others, except as permitted by applicable law or as set out below:
We share Personal Data as necessary with third parties who provide services or functions on our behalf and who require the information to provide those specific services to us. These third parties may include social media advertising platforms such as Facebook and Google Adwords for the purpose of custom audience generation and the development of targeting criteria for other audiences. Please note that we have appropriate data privacy safeguards in place with third parties with whom we share Personal Data as described above and who are providing services or functions on our behalf.
4. Keeping your Personal Data secure
We have implemented security policies and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Data we collect. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable law, including the GDPR, to safeguard Personal Data from accidental loss, destruction or damage and unauthorised access, use and disclosure.
5. Retention periods for use of your Personal Data
We will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your Personal Data as described in this privacy policy and otherwise as communicated to you. We review the Personal Data we hold at regular intervals and delete permanently or anonymise any Personal Data which is no longer necessary.
6. Children This Website and our services are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to children aged under 15 years old. If you are under the age of 15, please do not provide us with any of your Personal Data, including your email address.
7. Access to and control over your Personal Data
You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us via email
[finn@finnambers.com]
or via our postal address:
• see what Personal Data we hold about you (if any), including why we are holding it and who it could be disclosed to;
• ask us to change/correct your Personal Data;
• ask us to delete your Personal Data;
• object to the processing of your Personal Data;
• ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data;
• withdraw any consents you have given us to the processing of your Personal Data; and
• express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data.
8. Change of purpose
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
9. Contact Us
Our full details are: Orb-star Media
Email for Privacy Questions: Finn@finnambers.com
Postal Address:
Unit 10387
PO Box 4336
Manchester, M61 0BW
United Kingdom
Who we are
Our website address is: http://box5164.temp.domains/~finnambe.
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
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Cookies Policy
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses
cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve
your experience.
This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we
sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent
the cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain
elements of the sites functionality.
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most
cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without
completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It
is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need
them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your
browser (see your browser Help for how to do this).
Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many
other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also
disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore it is
recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
This site offers opt-in newsletter and email subscription services and cookies
may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show
certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed
users.
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or
comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future
correspondence.
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter
through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted
analytics solutiosn on the web for helping us to understand how you use the
site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track
things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so
we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google
Analytics page.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that
we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things
such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to
understand how we can improve the site for you.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that
the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may
be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site
whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the
most.
In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us
about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account.
These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel
may be of interest to you.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to
connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following
social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest,
Instagram, YouTube will set cookies through our site which may be used to
enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for
various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if
there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually
safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the
features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more
information you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: finn@finnambers.com
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
Who we share your data with
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.