PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are:

Sara Truckel trading as Truckel Creative

Our website address is:

https://truckelcreative.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it:

We only collect the data you give us when you fill in forms on our website. The only mandatory data we request in the forms is your name and email address. All other data is optional. We collect no other data from you.

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 anonymised 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

These are used purely for the request of contact with us. No data from these forms is passed onto a third party with the exception of Mailchimp where the data is held.

 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 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.

 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

We share your data with Mailchimp as they hold our collected data. We do not share data with any other 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 recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For information collected via our contact us and any other forms we hold your data for indefineitely or until you request to be forgotten by us. You can unsubscribe from our database at any time.

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.

Collected contact data will be held at Mailchimp and may be subjected to processing outside the UK/EEA.

 Your contact information

When you fill in our Contact Us form we request and name and email address. All other data is optional.

 How we protect your data

Your data is held securely on Mailchimp servers. We will never pass your data to any other third party or hold your data locally.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If Mailchimp advise us of a data breach we will contact all affected parties immediately and follow the advise given by Mailchimp as to limit the effects of the breach.