PRIVACY
POLICY

Privacy Policy

Grove House Media, owner and publishers of BRITISH DAIRYING magazine appreciate the need to keep any personal data private and we hold the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard.

Those responding to our website are assured that all personal details included in applications for copies, either free or subscriptions, and those  requesting further information, is kept strictly for administrative purposes only. Unlike many other agricultural publications, no details are released to any other party for financial consideration or gain eg direct  mail. All information supplied either via on-line request submissions or  via our reader registration cards is held for circulation (magazine distribution) and mailing analysis eg. by herd size/county/regional, purposes only.

We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Grove House Media Limited would like to use cookies to store information on your computer, to improve our website. Some of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the site to operate, and have already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but some parts of the site may not work and your experience may be affected as a result.

This website uses the following cookies:

What are the cookie categories?

Here’s a simple list.

As you will see from the table above, many of the cookies used on the BRITISH DAIRYING site relate to logging in and will not be relevant to those who visit the site without logging in. The rest of the cookies are used to track visitor behaviour in order to make future improvements to the site.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.britishdairying.co.uk.

Comments

Any data collected on users is held only for the purpose of sending you our publications and information specific to dairy farming that we think you will find useful. No data is shared with 3rd parties whatsoever.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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.

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.

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.

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 recognise 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 your data is sent

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