Who we are

Digital Barman takes your privacy very seriously. This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site https://digitalbarman.co.uk, including any information you may provide when you purchase a product or service, sign up to our newsletter or take part in a prize draw or competition.

Digital Barman is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data.

Contact: support@digitalbarman.co.uk

What personal data we collect

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymous data.

We may process certain types of personal data about you as follows:

We may also process Aggregated Data from your personal data but this data does not reveal your identity and as such in itself is not personal data. For example, we may calculate the percentage of users using a specific feature of our site.

Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

Comments

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 anonymized 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.

Contact forms

There are no contact forms on this site currently.

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.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may not function properly. For more information, please see our cookie policy.

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use https://digitalbarman.co.uk. This includes IP addresses. The data is anonymised before being used for analytics processing.

Google Analytics processes anonymised information about:

We do not store your personal information through Google Analytics (for example your name or address).

We will not identify you through analytics information, and we will not combine analytics information with other data sets in a way that would identify who you are.

How we collect and why we need your data

We collect data about you through a variety of different methods including:

Direct interactions: You may provide data by filling in forms on our site or by communicating with us by post, phone, email, including when you:

Automated technologies or interactions: As you use our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. Please see our cookie policy.

Analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.

Advertising networks based inside or outside the EU.

Search information providers such as Google, and Bing etc. based inside or outside the EU.

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe and PayPal etc. based inside or outside the EU.

Identity and Contact Data from data brokers or aggregators inside or outside the EU.

Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources, for example, Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside or outside the EU.

The legal basis for processing personal data in relation to site security is our legitimate interests, and the legitimate interests of our users, in ensuring the security and integrity of https://digitalbarman.co.uk.

The legal basis for processing anonymised data for Google Analytics is your consent.

The legal basis for processing all other personal data is that it’s necessary to perform our business. We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

We may collect data in order to:

Marketing communications 

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you, or by emailing us at support@digitalbarman.co.uk at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving our marketing communications, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, or other transactions.

Who we share your data with

The data we collect may be shared with:

We will not:

We will share your data if we are required to do so by law – for example, by court order, or to prevent fraud or other crime.

How long we retain your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as:

We will keep your email data until you unsubscribe.

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.

Children’s privacy protection

Our services are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children 13 years of age or younger. We do not intentionally collect or maintain data about anyone under the age of 13.

What rights you have over your data

You have the right to:

If you have any of these requests, please contact us at support@digitalbarman.co.uk.

Where we send your data

Our systems are designed to make sure that your data is as safe as possible at all stages, both while it’s processed and when it’s stored. Your data may be stored inside the EU or outside the EU.

Data collected by Google Analytics may be transferred outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) for processing.

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

How we protect your data and keep it secure

We are committed to doing all that we can to keep your data secure. We have set up systems and processes to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of your data – for example, we protect your data using strong passwords encryption.

We also make sure that any third parties that we deal with keep all personal data they process on our behalf secure.

https://digitalbarman.co.uk contains links to other websites.

This privacy notice only applies to https://digitalbarman.co.uk, and does not cover other sites or services that we link to. These services will have their own terms and privacy policies.

If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

If you come to https://digitalbarman.co.uk from another website, we may receive personal information from the other website. You should read the privacy policy of the website that you came from to find out more about this.

Contact us or make a complaint

Contact us at support@digitalbarman.co.uk if you:

You can also make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the independent UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint, so that we can try to resolve it for you.

Changes to this policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. In that case, the ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change. Any changes to this privacy policy will apply to you and your data immediately.

If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, Digital Barman will take reasonable steps to let you know.

Last updated 19 February 2020.