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Welcome to our Privacy Policy, effective date 17th June 2024.
Our website, www.thebarkblog.co.uk (the "Site") is owned and operated in the United Kingdom and can be contacted at:
hello@thebarkblog.co.uk
The purpose of this Privacy Policy (the "Policy") is to inform users of our Site of the following:
This Policy applies in addition to the Terms and Conditions of the Site.
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 of the GDPR.
By using our Site users agree that they consent to the conditions set out in this Policy.
When the legal basis for us processing your personal data is that you have provided your consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.
You can withdraw your consent by emailing hello@thebarkblog.co.uk.
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.
We rely on the legal basis to collect the personal data of users in the EU in light of users having provided their consent to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes.
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
Data Collected Automatically:
When you visit and use the Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information:
Data Collected Manually:
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:
This data may be collected using the following methods:
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Policy.
The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes:
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:
We may share the following user data with third parties via links clicked while using the Site.
We may share user data with third parties for the following purposes:
Third parties will not be able to access user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policies, terms and conditions, and practices.
User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.
You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
All data is stored on private and secure servers. All data is only accessible by the Site's owner, who is bound by confidentiality obligations.
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The internet, generally speaking, can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
The Site is not designed for children's use and as such, we do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of 16, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or guardian may contact us on hello@thebarkblog.co.uk.
If you would like to know if we have collected data, how we have saved or used your data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact us at hello@thebarkblog.co.uk.
A cookie is a small file, stored on a user's hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user's browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely in your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.
We use the following types of cookies on our Site:
This Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Policy we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review the Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Policy.
If you have any complaints or queries about how we process your personal data, please contact us at hello@thebarkblog.co.uk to allow us to help resolve the issue. If you feel that we have not dealt with your complaint appropriately, you also have the right to directly make a complaint to a supervisory authority.
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact us at hello@thebarkblog.co.uk.