Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy applies to the website bunkermedia.co.uk, operated by Bunker Media. It governs the privacy of its users and customers. This policy outlines the obligations of users, the website, and its owners, detailing how we process, store, and protect user data. We adhere to UK national laws, including GDPR, ensuring your privacy is maintained throughout your interaction with our services.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws, including GDPR and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to enhance user experience. Upon your first visit, you will be prompted to accept or decline the use of cookies, in compliance with recent legislation. Cookies are small files stored on your device that track, save, and store information about your interactions with the website. This allows us to provide a personalized experience. For more details on our cookie usage, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website may use tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which may use cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

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.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any personal details at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until it is no longer needed or has no use, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR (EU) 2016/679. We ensure that all data provided is securely processed and protected.

We implement robust security measures to protect your personal data during submission and storage. Despite our efforts to secure email submissions, users are advised to submit information at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material.

We do not share your personal details with third parties unless required for providing our services or by law. In such cases, we ensure that third parties comply with GDPR and data protection laws.

Email Newsletter

Our website may operate an email newsletter to inform subscribers about our products and services. Subscriptions are voluntary and can be done through our online process or manually with prior written consent. We comply with UK Spam Laws and GDPR (EU) 2016/679, ensuring all personal details are held securely and never shared with third parties without consent. Users can unsubscribe at any time using the link provided in our emails.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 you can request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us and we will respond with the information you require within 1 month.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity may be tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; Ryans Removals or Steve Hill Carpentry.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Interactions through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are subject to the terms and privacy policies of each respective platform. We encourage users to exercise caution and review these policies before engaging. We do not request personal or sensitive information via social media and recommend contacting us through primary channels for such matters.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo). 

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

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 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.

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 an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request the deletion of any personal data we hold, except for data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@bunkermedia.co.uk for such requests.

Where your data is sent

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

Assignment

In the circumstance that Bunker Media is purchased by another company, they will also buy all data we have on customers. In doing so, they will also agree to only use the data for the purposes that you have already agreed to. If they wish to use your data for anything other purpose, they will need to get your express permission to do so.

GDPR Compliance

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer Pete Chadwick at info@bunkermedia.co.uk. We will endeavour to respond to or enact your request within 1 month.

Your data is stored securely and will not be passed onto anyone else. Any data will be primarily used to keep you up to date with vital information regarding our business, but will be deleted after it is deemed unnecessary to keep your data (if you haven’t had dealings with us for 12 months or more).

Resources & Further Information

 

## Last edited May 2024 – Edited & customised by Bunker Media ##