Privacy Policy - Negroponte

Who we are

Our website address is: https://negroponte.co.uk.

This Privacy Policy explains how Negroponte collects, uses and protects personal data when you visit our website, contact us through our website, or interact with content published on this site.

What personal data we collect

We may collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

Your name
Your email address
Your organisation
Your message or enquiry
Any other information you choose to include when contacting us

We may also collect technical information automatically, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited and basic website usage information, where this is necessary for website functionality, security, analytics or spam prevention.

Contact forms

When you submit a contact form on our website, we collect the information shown in the form, including your name, email address, organisation and message.

We use this information only to respond to your enquiry, communicate with you about your request, and where relevant, discuss possible collaboration or services.

Contact form submissions may also include technical information such as the page URL, submission time, browser data and IP address for security, anti-spam and troubleshooting purposes.

Comments

If comments are enabled on the website and visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as 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 check whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be 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, including EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images published on the website.

Cookies

Our website may use cookies to support essential website functionality, improve user experience, remember preferences, support login sessions and help protect the site from spam or abuse.

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 may last for one year.

If you visit our login page, the website may set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When authorised users log in, the website sets cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies typically last for two days, and screen options cookies may last for one year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login may persist for two weeks. When a user logs out, login cookies are removed.

If an authorised user edits or publishes an article, an additional cookie may be saved in the browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and pages on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, maps or other external content.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the external website directly.

These external 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 if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share limited personal data with trusted service providers only where necessary for website hosting, email delivery, website maintenance, spam prevention, security, analytics or other technical website operations.

If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.

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

How long we retain your data

If you contact us through the website, we may retain your message and contact details for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry, manage our relationship with you, keep appropriate business records, or comply with legal, administrative or security requirements.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be 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 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.

Your rights over your data

Depending on your location and applicable data protection law, you may have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to the personal data we hold about you
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
Request deletion of your personal data
Request restriction of processing
Object to certain types of processing
Request portability of your data, where applicable
Withdraw consent, where processing is based on consent

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have contacted us through the website, 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 data we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Data submitted through this website may be processed by our website hosting provider, email systems, spam detection services, security tools or other technical service providers necessary for operating the website.