INTRODUCTION
Somethingabouttheboy.com is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. Our Privacy Policy gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure. This Policy also sets out your right to request that we delete, update, transfer or provide you with access to your personal information. Please also note that this Privacy Policy only applies to personal information obtained by us – not information collected from your interactions with third parties.
REASONS/PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION
We process personal information to enable us to provide to best website experience possible, through the use of cookies. We anonymously track users through Google Analytics, where they go on the site, how long they visit each page and what browser and platform they use. We do not follow users once they have left this site and we do not share this information with any third party.
WEBSITE; USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We may collect information about your usage of our website.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your devices memory. Cookies help analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your device or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
A list of the cookies active on our site is detailed below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
| _ga
_gat _gid (Universal Analytics – Google) |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
| PHPSESSID
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This cookie tells the browser that our website is currently being visited and if the browser crashes it can return to the page it was on. |
| wp-settings-1
wp-settings-time-1 |
This cookie is used by the WordPress Content Management System to enable certain site functionality. |
Our website, social media posts and emails contain links to third party websites and services. Please remember that when you use any such links to go from our Sites to another website or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.
OUR SECURITY AND YOUR DATA
We take data security very seriously and take measures to ensure our systems are secure.
HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION
If you’d like to know what data we hold or to update your details, please contact: contact@somethingabouttheboy.com
YOUR DATA AND YOUR RIGHTS
Under the Data Protection Laws your rights are:
- To be informed – We must make available this privacy notice with the emphasis on transparency over how we process your data.
- Access – You are entitled to find out what details we may hold about you and why.
- Rectification – We are obliged to correct or update your details.
- Erasure – This is also known as the request to be forgotten.
- Restrict processing – You have the right to ‘block’ or suppress the processing by us of your personal data.
- Data portability – You have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data that you have provided to us.
- Object – You have the right to object to us processing your data in relation to direct marketing and or profiling.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – We do not use automatic decision making or profiling.
You can withdraw consent for us to use your data at any time. This can be done by emailing contact@somethingabouttheboy.com. You may also contact the Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) if you have cause to complain. The contact details for the ICO are available here.
REVIEWING THE POLICY
This policy will be reviewed from time to time and any changes will be posted on this page.