Date Updated: 24/02/2025

Who we are

Our website address is: https://oldroots.co.uk/
You can reach us at:

What Data We Collect and Why?

We collect the personal information that you provide to us when submitting a comment or completing the contact form.
Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our website.

Comments & Contact Forms

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.

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.

You can refuse cookies by selecting ‘Deny’ from the cookie acceptance banner that appears at the foot of the page. Should you accept cookies and then change your mind, you can remove them manually in your browser, instructions can be found on the following pages:

• Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox
• Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl
• Edge – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/learning-center/how-to-manage-and-clear-your-cache-and-cookies
• Safari – https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
• Opera – https://blogs.opera.com/tips-and-tricks/2023/04/clean-browser-and-remove-trackers/

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.

Who we share your data with

The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with the website operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services, including, but not limited to:

• application development – the website is created using WordPress
• site hosting – 123Reg
• email delivery services – 123Reg
• Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared
• Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

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 left comments on the site, 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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet, you can view their terms and privacy policy here – https://akismet.com/tos/

We also protect the site using Google reCAPTCHA which analyses data such as IP address, referrer URL, operating system, cookies, mouse movements and keyboard strokes, duration of pauses between actions, and Device settings such as language or location. You can view Google’s privacy policy here – https://policies.google.com/privacy

Users under 13 years of age

Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact the ">Privacy Officer. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.

Protection of Personal Data

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.