Privacy and Cookies Policy - 2023
At Sustainable Kitchens, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our customers, business partners, visitors to our website and subscribers to our newsletter.
Here you’ll find information on how we treat data that we collect from business communication, visitors to our website, or when someone subscribes to our newsletter.
what is a cookie
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device when you access the internet.
why do sustainable kitchens use cookies?
Cookies let users navigate around sites and (where appropriate) let us tailor the content to fit the needs of our site’s visitors. Without cookies enabled we can’t guarantee that the website and your experience of it are as we intended it to be.
What to do if you want to disable cookies?
If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you could visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on cookies on a wide variety of browsers. You’ll also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer. To learn about controlling cookies on the browser of your mobile device please refer to your handset manual.
What cookies do we use?
WordPress Cookies
Our website is powered by the content management system, WordPress. This may store cookies to increase the performance of the website and allow easier and quicker navigation throughout.
Google Analytics’ Cookies
Every time a user visits our website, Google Analytics generates anonymous analytics cookies. These cookies can tell us whether a user has visited the site before. They can also tell us how visitors use the website. You can find out more information on Google’s data practices here.
Advertising Cookies
We also use cookies to assist in targeted advertising. We use cookies to more accurately target advertising to you, to show more relevant ads online. These cookies are anonymous. If you receive one of those cookies, we may then use it to identify you as having visited our site if you later visit other sites that are part of the Google advertising network and will serve targeted advertising based on this information.
We don’t sell the information collected by cookies, nor do we disclose the information to third parties, except where required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
To be able to use certain areas and features of the site, specifically requested by you, we may require you provide us with information that identifies you personally. This information may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your telephone number
- Your address
- Your company name
As part of the registration process for our monthly e-newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information.
We use a third party provider, Hubspot, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. All email newsletters contain instructions to unsubscribe from the mailing list. You can also contact us at hello@sustainablekitchens.co.uk to remove your email address from our mailing list at any time.
We will never sell or share your personal information to any persons or organisations except when required by law for the investigation of illegal or criminal actives, the exercise of legal rights or in defence against any legal claims, or otherwise.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to ensuring that your identifiable and non-identifiable personal information is secure. However, we cannot assure your identifiable and non-identifiable personal information will never be disclosed in a nature that conflicts with this Privacy Policy. Additionally, we are not responsible for any breach of security or actions undertaken by any third parties that receive the information.
OWNERSHIP OF DATA
We retain all rights of ownership on our software, code, databases, designs and any other internally developed application to provide the Site and the Service. You retain all rights of your data posted on the Site.
HOW WE STORE DATA
We use external vendors and hosting companies to provide the software, hardware, storage, networking and other necessary technology required to provide the service.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We make every effort to give you access to your personal information, to allow you to correct any inaccuracies, or to remove your personal information at your request provided it is not required for genuine business purposes or by law to be retained.
We require you identify yourself and the information you request to access, remove, modify or correct before commencing such requests. We may refuse requests that are of unreasonable technical effort or would be highly unfeasible, endanger the privacy of others, or require access that is not normally necessary. When we provide access to your personal information for the purposes of modification, correction or removal, we do so free of charge except where doing so requires a unreasonable effort.
To request access, correction or removal of your personal information, please email hello@sustainablekitchens.co.uk. We will remove all of your information and data from the site within 7 business days upon receipt of your request.
updates and changes to the privacy policy
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 16th May 2019.
