This page describes the privacy policy we use on this site and explains how and why we collect your personal data.
We are
Redcentaur, a business operating in the United Kingdom.
Our website address is: https://redcentaur.com. This website is a subdomain of our main website and you can access it directly at https://blog.redcentaur.com. It is a website promoting our work, and providing advice and guidance to individuals, businesses, and charities using our services. You can contact us via this website or our main website address.
General statement of our privacy policy
At Redcentaur, we take your privacy extremely seriously. We only collect your personal data when it is essential for the operation of our websites, and we offer you the opportunity to reject any optional use of your data through our policies, including this privacy policy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This website uses cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with it and its content. These cookies are a standard internet technology. Your computer stores them on your computer’s drive. They enable you to interact with this website, for example, sign in, leave a comment, etc.
We collect general technical data about your visit to this website, such as the browser you are using, the operating system, screen size, and enabled facilities, in order to help us to improve this website and your experience of it. Google Analytics service collects and stores this information. See below for Google’s policy details.
If you leave a comment on this website, sign in, register, use the contact us form, or make a purchase, we will also collect personal information such as your name, address, email address, IP address, username, password, and payment details (if necessary). The website and/or third–parties process this information to provide you with the service you requested.
Comments and our privacy policy
When visitors leave comments on this website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This information is passed to the Akismet Anti–spam service. The information collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and this site’s URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture (as provided by Gravatar) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
The website will make a record of the user who uploaded the media file, as well as the name of the file and any additional information you provide at the time of upload, or subsequently.
Cookies and our privacy policy
If you leave a comment on this 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, a temporary cookie is used to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data. The browser will discard the cookie when you close the browser.
When you log in, this site 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. The site automatically removes login cookies when you log out of your account.
Should you edit or publish an article, your browser will save an additional cookie. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Our Cookies policy provides more information about cookies used on this site.
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 exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
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, for instance, if you have an account with that website.
Below are the main third–party content providers we may use and details of where to find the privacy policy for each of them. In general, if you do not wish to have your data tracked by these providers, you can sign out of their service before consuming the material on our website. In most cases, this will prevent the provider tracking your personal data.
YouTube™
This website uses plugins from YouTube, which operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, this establishes a connection to the YouTube servers. This informs the YouTube server about which pages you have visited on our site.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behaviour directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
We use YouTube to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Google’s policy provides further information about how YouTube handles user data in the data protection declaration.
Google Web Fonts privacy policy
For uniform representation of fonts, this website uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
The web fonts we use are stored locally on our servers and therefore no connection is made directly with Google in order to display these fonts.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at Google’s font FAQs and in Google’s policy.
Facebook privacy policy
The website includes plugins for the social network Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. For an overview of Facebook plugins, see the Plugins documentation.
When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is established via the plugin. This enables Facebook to receive information that you have visited this site from your IP address. If you click on the Facebook “Like button” while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of this site to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate visits to this site with your user account. We have no knowledge of the data transmitted to Facebook or how Facebook uses it. For more information, please see Facebook’s policy.
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit with your Facebook account, log out of your Facebook account.
This website does not currently contain functions of the Instagram service. However, should we start integrating Instagram functions in the future, we include this statement here for reference. Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, offers these functions.
When logged into your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button to link the pages with your Instagram profile. This means that Instagram can associate visits to these pages with your user account. As the provider of this website we receive no information on the transmitted data or its use by Instagram.
For more information, see Instagram’s legal documents.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, the reset email includes your IP address.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, we retain the comment and its metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow–up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on this website (if any), the website also stores 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 held about you, including any data you have provided to the site. You can also request that the site erases any personal data held 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.
Who controls data on this site
We are the responsible data controller for your data on this site.
By using this site, you agree to us and our administrators taking your data and using it to manage the site and its performance. You also agree to permitted third–parties using your data to enhance your experience on this site, as described in this privacy policy.
