This page summarises the Privacy & Cookie Policy of the Walnut Tree Thwaite’s Website.
1) Cookies
Cookies are small text files passed on from our website to your device’s internet browser (a device being a PC, laptop, smartphone , ipad etc and an internet browser being Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc).
We use cookies to make this website operate properly (remember choices/ selections made) and to collect analytical information relating to the website pages you visit. Our cookies are not harmful to your PC or device!
If you visit this website with cookies enabled in your browser we will also assume you consent to the placing of our cookies in your browser. If you do not consent to this, we kindly request you discontinue viewing the website and delete www.thewalnuttreethwaite.com cookies from your browser. If cookies are disabled in your browser, you can then view our website cookie free but it, and other websites you visit may not function correctly.
2) Protection of Personal Data.
When you electronically provide personal information on this website (be that your name , phone number, email address) that information is used and retained by our business for a given period of time. Within the limitations of operating a small business we try our best to keep any personal data provided and/or stored safe and secure.
We will only send out marketing emails where we believe consent has been given for us to do so. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of such an email or by emailing us.
We do not share or sell on any names, email addresses, telephone numbers with third party businesses, save as absolutely necessary to maintain, update and host our website. Where a customer has subscribed to our ‘Newsletters’ we may share the data input into the ‘Name’ and ‘Email address’ boxes with a third party business solely for the purpose of electronically sending out those newsletters.All information received on this website is only used and retained for the stated business activities on this website.
If you have previously electronically sent in personal data that you no longer wish us to retain (i.e name , phone numbers, email addresses) we will on request delete such records (if stored) from our electronic database providing there is no legal requirement to retain such information.
3) Google
We use Google to provide a secure email service for our customers and we may at any time use Google to also collect website analytical information via Google Analytics.
The use of Google email (Gmail/API) means that Google may scan, store incoming and outgoing emails in accordance with their own company/privacy policies and to assist law enforcement agencies.
The type of analytical information obtained via Google Analytics includes IP address, device make/model, web pages visited, links clicked, time spent on page, how you got to our site (directly typing our web address or through a search engine) browser used and city location etc.
We or our website partners may look at this analytical information and then use it to improve the performance and/or user experience of the website. The analytical information provided by Google Analytics does not provide data such as a persons name or address.
If you wish to minimise your Google exposure we can only suggest you block cookies from our website in your browser and only contact us by phone ?.
4) Summary
We trust our privacy policy addresses how personal data collected on this website is used. If you have any concerns please do get in touch and we will address the issues you have.