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Our Commitment To Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining areas of our website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation 2018, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (together “Data Protection Laws”) are adhered to.

Additionally, this policy explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available throughout the website and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

The Information We Collect

We do automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information from you when you visit our site, such as the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using and the domain name of your internet provider. For further information, and an explanation of your rights in relation to such information collection, please see our cookie policy below.

The Information We DON’T Collect

Any personally identifiable data other than that specified above.

Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of text that is stored on your computer, phone or other mobile device when using a browser to connect to the internet. Cookies have many uses but specifically, they are used to store information about you on your computer. Unless you have specifically set your computer to reject cookies, websites will already have been using cookies to enhance your online experience.

How we use cookies

The cookies we use on growth-plans.co.uk collect basic information about our visitors including what pages have been visited and how they found our website. The information we gather does not identify anyone and we make no attempt to find out who has been to our site.

In order to comply with EU regulations, visitors to our website now have the option of accepting or denying the use of and saving of our cookies. We recommend you allow the cookies we set by this website as they help us provide a better service. If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.

The cookies we use:

Google Analytics: The Google Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.

Cookie Consent: This cookie monitors whether or not you have accepted cookies on our site.

Managing your cookies

For further information on how to manage your cookies with a specific browser, please click the appropriate link below:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Safari iOS
  • Android
  • Blackberry
  • Windows Phone

To manage your Google Analytics cookies, you can visit the Google Analytics help page, however please bear in mind that information obtained from Google Analytics goes towards improving the user experience on our site.

WordPress

We use a third party service, WordPress, to publish our News and Views, and update the website content. We use a standard WordPress service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site. For example, the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it.

Complaints about the use of Personal Data

If you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us at the email address set out under “How to Contact Us” below, who will investigate further.

If you are not satisfied with our response, or believe that we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

How To Contact Us

Please contact us by email to [email protected] if at any time you want to request information about this online privacy policy or to exercise your rights as set out above.

Revisions To Our Policy

We reserve the right to revise this policy or any part of it from time to time. Please review the policy periodically for changes.