The Policy
This privacy policy is for this Dog Trainer UK website;
www.scentsibeldogtraining.co.uk and served by Scentsible Dog Training and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
It explains how we comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection
Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) and the PECR (Privacy and
Electronic Communications Regulations).
This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your
privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store
those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are
adhere to. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software,
advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the
download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if
any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific
pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how
we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and
your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact
information is provided if you have any questions.
The DPA & GDPR
We and this website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998)
and complies to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while
visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this
website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit
permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer /
device.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that
track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and
usage of the website.
This allows the website, through its server to
provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of
cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should
take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to
block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or
use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better
understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your
computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and
usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal
information.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will
typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have
detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website
through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the
number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of
cookies which may in turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users
should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their
own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications
caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this
website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions
have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available
users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti
virus software or similar applications.
We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads
provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify
their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar
applications.
Contact & Communication With us
Users contacting this us through this website do so at their own
discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own
risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely
until a time it is no longer required or has no use.
Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and
where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to
send you products/services information through a mailing list system.
This is done in accordance with the regulations named in ‘The policy’
above.
Email Mailing List & Marketing Messages
We operate an email mailing list program, used to inform subscribers
about products, services and/or news we supply/publish. Users can
subscribe through an online automated process where they have given
their explicit permission. Subscriber personal details are collected,
processed, managed and stored in accordance with the regulations named
in ‘The policy’ above. Subscribers can unsubscribe at any time through
an automated online service, or if not available, other means as
detailed in the footer of sent marketing messages. The type and content
of marketing messages subscribers receive, and if it may contain third
party content, is clearly outlined at the point of subscription.
Email marketing messages may contain tracking beacons / tracked
clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track
subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such
marketing messages may record a range of subscriber data relating to
engagement, geographic, demographics and already stored subscriber data.
Our EMS (email marketing service) provider is; Mail Chimp and you can read their privacy policy in the resources section.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Although we only look to include quality, safe and relevant external
links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking
any external web links mentioned throughout this website.
Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to
shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially
shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks
similar to this (example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take
caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their
authenticity before proceeding.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked
website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click
on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for
any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links
mentioned.
How we protect your information
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and
known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as
possible.
Accessing Personal Information and Deleting Data
You can change your personal information or request deletion of your personal data in the following ways:
• By emailing us: andy@scentsibledogtraining.co.uk
• By calling us: 07906 505285
Social Media Policy & Usage
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff
conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official
profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify
authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing
information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or
personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct
themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing
buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the
respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at
your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your
social media profile feed or page. You can find further information
about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources
section below.
Data Breaches
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email within 7 business days
v.1.0 June 2020 Edited & customised by: Scentsible Dog Training