Privacy policy and cookies

This privacy policy governs the privacy of this website www.theforestbee.co.uk, hereafter known as the ‘Website’, and those who choose to use it. It sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. The way the website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and it’s owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website.

Cookies are small files, saved to a users’ computer hard drive, that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer hard drive they should take necessary steps within their own web browser security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software provided by Google Analytics to monitor visitors in order to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here http://policies.google.com/privacy.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or advertisements. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer hard drive. Users click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it’s owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage with them taking due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor it’s owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourages users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and it’s owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses](this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to exercise caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and it’s owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and it’s owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Content

All content both text, media and related data is the sole opinion of the respective owners. Nothing in the published content on this website is stated as authoritative information and no responsibility is taken for individuals acting on content that may subsequently result in detrimental effect on health, welfare, or psychological well being.

Comments

Comments are the sole opinion of the respective owners. We reserve the right to moderate all comments, including editing and deleting material that we consider unsuitable in any way to be published on this website. We also reserve the right to ban offensive users and visitors that attempt to breach our privacy policy, or disrupt the operation of the website.

Booking a listing or advert or contacting us via the online form.

Users contacting this website and/or the owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and it’s owners may use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.

Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Purchase of listings or adverts on The Forest Bee and using the website form to contact The Forest Bee for any other reason requires some personal information to be entered before completing the transaction. Some personal information may be stored on the website system to facilitate repeat transactions by the same customer. We use this information as part of the required transaction details ONLY. Your information is not in any way extracted, sold, traded, reused for marketing purposes or in any other way analysed without your prior knowledge and consent.

We collect and process the following information if it is provided and is needed to carry out our business:

Name
Organisation if provided
Individual and organisation contact email address
Individual and organisation contact phone
Individual and organisation address
Bank details (when required for The Forest Bee to make payments)

How we get your personal information and why we collect it:

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

to provide content of requested advertisements in The Forest Bee
your contact details required to confirm advertisement content and invoicing
email communications about the The Forest Bee e.g. replies to contact form queries, requests for edition dates, reminders of edition dates, marketing
ensure The Forest Bee team can communicate with each other

We also receive contact (name, email, organisation) information indirectly from websites, newspapers and other public sources.

We use the information that you have given us in order to

set up requested advertisements in The Forest Bee
confirm advertisement content and invoicing
respond to queries
communicate The Forest Bee information to past and current advertisers e.g. new charges, edition dates
volunteer communications

We do not share this information.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us using the contact details above.

(b) We have a legitimate interest.

Your information is securely digitally stored at our contact address.

We keep customer data for marketing purposes. In email communications you are asked to reply if you want information to be permanently deleted. Employee data (if we have employees) is deleted 6 years after employee leaves the organisation.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us using above details if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at The Forest Bee, contact details below.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House, Water Lane

Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

Our contact details