Privacy Policy Notice

Scents of the Wild is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website users and providing them with the highest quality experience possible.

This privacy policy notice is for this website; [www.scentsofthewild.co.uk] and governs the privacy of those who use it.

The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we collect, control, process, handle and protect your personal information while browsing or using this website, through email correspondence and other electronic messages between you and this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. If you do not agree to the following policy you must cease viewing / using this website.

POLICY KEY DEFINITIONS:

  • "our", "us", or "we" refer to the business, [Scents of the Wild].

  • "you", "the user" refer to the person(s) using this website.

  • GDPR means General Data Protection Act.

  • PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.

  • ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.

  • Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.


YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;


  • the right to be informed;

  • the right of access;

  • the right to rectification;

  • the right to erasure;

  • the right to restrict processing;

  • the right to data portability;

  • the right to object; and

  • the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When accessing this website, we will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through actions you may take voluntarily, during your visit.


Information you provide us with. This website provides several places for users to provide information. We collect information that is voluntarily provided by users when they fill out forms on our website, communicate with us via contact forms, make comments or give other feedback, and when ordering a product or service via this website.


The information we collect automatically on our website through Google Analytics is used for statistical data and does not include personal information. We use this data to improve our website and our service. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and the length of time spent browsing specific pages on our website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.

INTERNET COOKIES & FACEBOOK PIXEL

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website. Information gathered through cookies may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent on our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address. Cookies are also used to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, or to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

We use technological equivalents of cookies on this website, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites such as Facebook so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. We use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.


DATA SECURITY & PROTECTION

We process data electronically and we ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

TRANSPARENT PRIVACY EXPLANATIONS

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Our website may contain links to other websites. Third party links may be displayed as a website URL like this; www.scentsofthewild.co.uk or as a titled text link like this: Eco Hotel in Perthshire. Please be aware that once you click on a link and leave our website, we do not have any control over that other external website and we do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. We, therefore, cannot be held responsible for any data they may collect. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other third-party content and the data they collect, you should contact the responsible provider directly and review their privacy statement.

If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts or third-party links that may be found throughout our website.


EMAIL MARKETING MESSAGES & SUBSCRIPTION


We are committed to keeping your email address secure and confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties, other than a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary, to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, including your first name and email address. All e-mails sent from our organisation will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.


Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations, will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.


Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. Our emails will always contain a link at the bottom to unsubscribe from our email list. See any email marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences. If you have trouble unsubscribing, send an email to scentsofthewild@gmail.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails and your data will be removed.

Our EMS provider is; Mailchimp. We hold the following information about you securely within our EMS system;

  • Email address

  • First name

  • I.P address

  • Subscription time & date 


WHY WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

We collect your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register to download a guide or other resources, sign up for our email newsletter, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences, to deliver and keep you informed about the resources that you have requested / purchased to receive, and any related products and/or services. As a visitor to our website, most activities do not require you to provide any personal information. It is only when you choose to buy products and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.


HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US WITH

We use the information you provide us with for the purpose of displaying this website and its resources to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and us, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.

Occasionally, we may use the information you provide us with to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you voluntarily decide to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.


DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION


Ordinarily, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.

We may, however, disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.


HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

We use standard security protocols and work only with reputable third-party vendors. Some of the information you enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information will never be transmitted via email.

We may use Google Analytics and other software providing summary statistics for the purpose of assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our website, what information is of most and least interest to our website visitors, and for identifying system performance or problem areas.

POLICY CHANGES

We will post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address you provided us with when you subscribed to our newsletter. The date the privacy policy was last revised is specified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting this privacy policy on our website to check for any changes.

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RESOURCES & FURTHER INFORMATION

1st February 2020: Scents of the Wild, Easter Ballindalloch, Glen Lednock, Comrie, PH6 2LY

Email: scentsofthewild@gmail.com

END OF PRIVACY POLICY.