Privacy Policy - This Bristol Brood

Welcome to This Bristol Brood, I have a few things I would like to disclose, so you can feel happy browsing my site knowing I respect your data, privacy and can trust me to disclose or remove your data upon request.

This privacy policy sets out how This Bristol Brood uses and protects any information that you give while using https://thisbristolbrood.com. Should I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 24 March 2019. It is advised that you re-read this from time to time to make sure you are comfortable with the various policies.

Copyright

All written and photographic content on This Bristol Brood is copyright Angharad Paull (unless otherwise stated) and any unauthorised reproduction is not permitted.

Partnerships

Trips featured on This Bristol Brood are based on my own travel experiences. The majority are planned, booked and paid for by me. Where I accept the occasional discount, sponsorship or press trip with a tourist board or travel-related company, these will be clearly marked and I will always give my honest opinion.

Affiliates

This site contains some affiliate links, where I get a small commission at no extra cost to you. Clicks on a link for an affiliate partnership will be tracked via a customised link or a cookie placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions (see below).

Posts using affiliate links will be marked at the top with *Contains affiliate links*. Clicks on links for an affiliate partnership will be tracked via a customised link or a a cookie placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions (see info on cookies). This Bristol Brood is a participant in the Amazon UK Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. Within some of my posts you will find links to products for sale on Amazon. These are clearly marked at the top of the post with *Contains affiliate links*.

This Site is affiliated with Monumetric (dba for The Blogger Network, LLC) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Monumetric will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Monumetric’s data usage, click here: http://www.monumetric.com/publisher-advertising-privacy

Privacy

This Bristol Brood collects minimal information from users posting comments – typically a name (real or alias), website and email address. Your name and website may be displayed on the site if you post a comment, but your email address and privacy will always be kept secure.

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 is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice due to, but not limited to:

Comments deemed to be spam
Comments including profanity or language or concepts that could be deemed offensive
Comments that attack a person individually
Comments which contain links that are questionable, such as broken links or invalid links.

The owner of this blog reserves the right to change the focus of this blog, shut it down, or sell it at her own discretion.

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

Comment Likes – this feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided. 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. Please contact hello@thisbristolbrood.com if you need further help with this.

Newsletters

Newsletters and latest posts are distributed through a Mailchimp mailing list. Any personal information stored on a mailing list is solely kept for the distribution of blog posts/newsletters – I don’t share personal information with third parties. At the bottom of every post or newsletter is an easy way to opt-out.

Google Analytics

This Bristol Brood uses Google Analytics to track website usage and provide information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, demographic information such as age, preferences and interests and anonymous information about clicks and activity on the blog but no other personal information.

This Bristol Brood uses Google Analytics to track traffic and website statistics to ensure that my website contains content that is valuable and useful to readers. I may receive anonymous aggregated information such as your location, how you landed on my site, links clicked, how long you stayed on my site and other statistics. I have also implemented the Google Analytics demographics and interest reporting features on our website. These tools allow me to review anonymous data regarding the gender, age and interests of website visitors and adapt my website content to better reflect their needs. Although this information is collected through your Google ad settings, it is not provided to us in a personally-identifiable format. This means I cannot identify what information is about you, and I will never attempt to do so. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your website visits is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Cookies

This Bristol Brood uses cookies to uniquely identify users to analyse webpage traffic, content performance or post comments in order to tailor it to user’s needs. No personal information is stored in these cookies and it is simply a way to identify your computer. You can clear or turn off cookies at any time in your Internet browser’s settings.

WordPress

WordPress is the company I use to create this online website. They may receive analytics data from you, such as your IP address, your name, and email if you comment on our posts and other data.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave my site, you should note that I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

Advertising

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit This Bristol Brood. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. time and date, browser type, click stream information, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over) during your visits in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about behavioural advertising or to opt-out of this type of advertising, visit networkadvertising.org

Automatically Collected Information

Information that may automatically be collected when you land on our website is your IP address, operating system, browser type when you accessed our site, links you clicked, who referred you, what you do and how you behave while on our website. This information is anonymous and only used for aggregated statistical purposes.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Content hosted elsewhere on the internet

This Bristol Brood is not responsible for any republished content from this blog on other blogs, websites, blog comments or other media.

Security

I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Communications and other privacy matters

You consent to communicating with me through e-mail, including without limitation the exchanging of documents as attachments to email communications. You understand that such communications may include information that we or you consider private, and that not all computer networks are necessarily secure. You agree to hold me harmless for any non-intentional loss of or access to electronically exchanged and stored information.

Terms & Conditions

The reading of all information on This Bristol Brood is of your own free will. If you do not accept these Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy, you should cease use of this website immediately.

All content provided on this blog is for information purposes only. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site.

The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other web sites or media without our permission. All opinions are those of the author alone.