General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://skintherapy.uk.
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 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.
Email Marketing
When signing up for our newsletter, your email address is stored by us. This information is used to send you our newsletter update emails. This information is at no point shared with any third parties. We also use a cookie for analytics purposes, as explained below.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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.
Email marketing
We use cookies to track open rates and what links you click on our newsletter to provide us with analytics. These analytics help us to provide better content and services and at no time are shared with any third party.
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
Like most website operators, skintherapy.uk collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. skintherapy.uk’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how skintherapy.uk’s visitors use its website.
Who do we share your data with
Your data is confidential and is not shared with any third parties.
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 do 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.
The European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws, you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us, you can contact Skintherapy at gdpr@skintherapy.uk. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behaviour using cookies, click the ad preferences icon.
Where do we send your data?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We maintain a variety of technology and security features and policies to safeguard the privacy of your information from unauthorized access or improper use. We restrict access to your personally identifiable information to those employees and contractors–all of whom are covered by this Policy–who need to know that information to provide services to you or otherwise assist you. For security purposes, we may also maintain backups of software and data used in connection with the Service. Deleted or removed data may persist in such backup copies but will not be available through the Web Sites.
What data breach procedures do we have in place?
If, for any reason, there is a data breach, we will promptly alert you of such a breach and block all activity on the site until the breach is secured. Once we have alerted you of such a breach, you may request to have any data removed from our site.
How to contact skintherapy.uk
You can contact us at niaomi@skintherapy.uk.