Privacy & Cookies Policy

WHO WE ARE

This site, https://bewooded.co.uk, is a blog supporting beginner DIYers and creatives. It is owned and ran solely by me.

Here at https://bewooded.co.uk, Bewooded, this site or this website herein, I understand that your personal data is important to you and I will only collect and use your personal data in ways that are described in this Policy.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you must stop using this website immediately.

POLICY SCOPE

This Privacy Policy sets out how your data is used here at https://bewooded.co.uk. This site may include links to other websites. I have no control over how those sites use your data, please refer to Privacy Policies of such websites before providing any personal data to them. 

SHARING YOUR DATA

Your data is NEVER shared with any third parties outside of the scope of legal requirements or service provision.

Service provision requires your data to be shared with some third party service providers. Each third party service provider’s use of your personal information can be found in their respective Privacy Policies.

Bewooded currently uses the following third-party service providers:

These service providers may occasionally change so please check this Policy regularly for an updated list.

COOKIES

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

This website may use both, session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you close your browser, however, persistent cookies remain on your browser until deleted. These allow for a more personalised experience while on this site. 

Like most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, providing you with an improved user experience and helping speed up your future interactions with our website.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?

Necessary: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

Analytics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Advertisement: Our website may display advertisements. These cookies are used to personalise the advertisements that we show to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.

The information stored in these cookies may also be used by third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better experience on future visits to the website.

HOW TO CONTROL YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES

When you first visit our website, a cookie banner will appear at the bottom of the screen. You can use the options on this banner to customise your cookie preferences.

In addition, all popular internet browsers have a setting which allows users to block cookie storage. Please note that if you elect to do this some functions of this website may not work as expected.

If you wish to change your cookie preferences after you first interact with our cookie banner, you can delete your cookie settings by clicking the button below. This will cause a new cookie banner to appear on page refresh which you can use to set your new cookie preferences.

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EMBEDDED CONTENT

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Currently the only embedded content is from YouTube (this may change in the future) so please review their Privacy Policy for full details of what data is collected when you view these videos through this site. 

COLLECTION AND USE OF DATA

AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED DATA

When you visit this website some data about your device and use of this site is automatically collected. This includes, but not limited to, your:

  • IP Address
  • Device
  • Operating System
  • Pages Visited
  • Date and Time of Visit

DATA YOU SUBMIT TO THE WEBSITE YOURSELF

COMMENTS

When you leave comments on the site the following data is collected to display your comment: 

  • Name
  • Email
  • Comment Content
  • Post Commented On

When posting a comment you have the option to subscribe to: ‘new follow-up comments’ and/ or ‘new replies to your comments’. If either of these options is selected, your comment data will be used to email you notifications of events you have subscribed to.

If you upload images with your comment, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. You should also avoid uploading images with any personally identifiable features such as your car registration, house number and street name, phone number etc. In addition please avoid posting any sensitive personal information.

Media uploaded may be used in the newsletter to showcase community projects. If your project has been selected to appear in a newsletter, you will be notified using the email address provided on your comment.

Please be aware that if you have an account, some account information will be made public when you post your comment, including your avatar image.

PURCHASES THROUGH AFFILIATE LINKS

This site uses affiliate links to earn an income. If you click through an affiliate link and make a purchase, Bewooded and the third party you clicked through to may collect data to show that a click, and a purchase if applicable, has been made so that any commissions due to Bewooded can be collected. 

For full information regarding affiliate links on this site, please see the Affiliate and Sponsorship Policy. 

EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION

You may elect to receive emails from Bewooded. Currently we send the following email types:

  • Newsletter
  • New post notifications

During the subscription process your name and email address will be collected in order to fulfil the promised service. You are able to unsubscribe from any lists you have previously subscribed to at any time.  You will NEVER receive spam or any communication you have not previously elected to receive.

Emails are sent through the MailPoet sending service. This service allows tracking of opens and clicks on these emails. This information is used for analytical purposes.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

CONTACT FORMS

When you submit a contact request through the site the following data is collected to allow your request to be answered:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Contact Reason
  • Contact Content

The information will be used to answer your enquiry and will be stored for the duration of time in line with this policy.

ADDITIONAL USE

In addition to specific service provision reasons above, your data may also be used for analytics and research purposes to improve this website.

HOW LONG IS YOUR DATA STORED FOR

Your data will not be kept for any longer than is necessary for purposes specific in this Policy. Your personal data will therefore be held for the life of this site only.

YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR DATA

You have specific rights in relation to your data, including:

  • Access to the Data Held – you are able to request information on all of your personal data held by this site.
  • Amendment of the Data Held – you are able to request that your personal information held by this site is updated.
  • Unsubscribe – you are able to unsubscribe from any subscriptions previously made at any time by following the ‘unsubscribe’ links in any email sent to you.
  • Request to remove your personal data – you can request that your personal data be removed from this website. Please note that in this instance, certain data will need to remain for record keeping purposes but I will endeavour to anonymise the record by removing all your personally identifiable information.

POLICY CHANGE STATEMENT

Please note that this Privacy Policy is subject to change at any time deemed necessary by https://bewooded.co.uk. Please ensure to check this Privacy Policy regularly and be comfortable that you agree with all sections before using this site.

CONTACT

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact me here.