Effective Date: 24 July 2024
Your First Website (“we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.yourfirstwebsite.co.uk (the “Site”) or use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site or use our services.
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal Data:
Personally identifiable information, such as your name, postal address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards.
Derivative Data:
Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
Financial Data:
Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, our payment processor, [insert payment processor], stores all financial information, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.
Data From Social Networks:
User information from social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks.
Mobile Device Data:
Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customised experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
– Create and manage your account.
– Process your transactions.
– Email you regarding your account or order.
– Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and promotions, and other information regarding our website and services to you.
– Improve the Site and our services to better serve you.
– Monitor and analyse usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
– Notify you of updates to the Site.
– Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
– Perform other business activities as needed.
– Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights:
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers:
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications:
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
Interactions with Other Users:
If you interact with other users of the Site, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, and following blogs.
Online Postings:
When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the Site, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
Affiliates:
We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners:
We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at daniel@yourfirstwebsite.co.uk.
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. If you set the DNT signal on your browser, we will respond to such DNT browser signals.
Emails and Communications:
If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
– Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with the Site.
– Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.
– Contacting us using the contact information provided below.
If you are a resident of the United Kingdom, you have the following data protection rights:
– The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
– The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe
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