Privacy Policy - Ridley Road

Privacy Policy

Who we are 

Our website address is: https://ridleyroad.co.uk.

ridleyroad.co.uk is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the ridleyroad.co.uk web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

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 visit our login page, 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.

Google Adsense

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

Google Adsense may also serve third party ads via their network. You can see a list of these networks here:

https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/94149

Use the links there to locate the exact 3rd party advertisers Google works with, plus links to the 3rd party websites in order to opt out of their cookies, if you want to do that. 

Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

More Cookies – Remarketing and Conversion Tracking

ridleyroad.co.uk works with 3rd party advertising agencies such as Twitter and Facebook, and will allow the 3rd party agencies access to details of which webpages you visit on our site for purposes of conversion tracking and remarketing. For conversion tracking the 3rd party agencies will have access to pages visited on our website for the purpose of confirming that an advertising objective such as newsletter signups has been achieved as the result of a particular ad. ridleyroad.co.uk may also use 3rd party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet. As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of any 3rd party remarketing system. The third-party vendors, whose services we use – will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. Third party vendors use these cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. This allows us to make special offers and continue to market our services to those who have shown interest in our service.

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. You can also activate the Do Not Track (DNT) feature in your browser. 

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. 

Who we share your data with 

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.  

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 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. 

Where we send your data 

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Changes to this Statement

ridleyroad.co.uk will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. 

Contact Information

ridleyroad.co.uk welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that ridleyroad.co.uk has not adhered to this Statement, you are welcome to contact us.