Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the website of Portobello Optics
Your privacy and the protection of your personal data are important to us. As of May 25, 2018, we have an obligation to collect and protect your data in accordance with new European standards for data protection. The goal of the new framework is to make sure that we deal with your data in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner, and that we take steps to ensure that your data are adequately protected.
This Privacy Policy is where we explain to you how we collect, use, and store your personal data. You can request further information at any time about what personal information we are holding and how it is being used; you can ask for electronic copies of your personal information to be sent to you; and you can request that we erase your personal data.
We are limited to using your data under the following conditions: where you have consented to it, where we need to do so in order to fulfil our contract with you, or in certain special circumstances, such as compliance with legal obligations, or for other legitimate purposes.
We have adopted a “Privacy by Design” approach to your personal information, meaning that, to the best of our ability, we will employ state of the art means of collecting, storing, and transmitting your data, with a view to promoting privacy and data protection from the outset.
How we use your data
Depending on how you use our services and our website, we may request data from you for a variety of reasons:
User account
Should you create a user account on our website, we may request information such as your name and email address to identify you to us. This is to allow you to use the services available to you on the website, such as the ability to comment on articles.
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 with spam detection.
An anonymized 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Communication with you
When you contact us using email, a contact form on our website, via social media, or by any other method, we will use this information to reply to your message and to respond to your request.
Technical Uses of your Information
Our site collects data about visits to the site in order to optimise our site, as well as to promote security by checking for unusual activity, hacking attempts, and other potential threats. The data that is collected also facilitates internal operations such as troubleshooting, data analytics, and research and testing. Data about visits to the site are generally anonymous or pseudonymous. If you are logged into the website and have provided us with personal information, it may be possible for us to track your activity on the site.
Information collected for technical purposes may include which pages you have visited (including the date and time), which services and pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, files downloaded, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from a page, and other metrics related to your visit to our site.
We use Google Analytics to track visits to the site. More information about Google Analytics can be found on the Google Analytics website.
Information that may be passed to third parties outside our control:
On many of the pages on our site you will see “social feeds” for services such as Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and/or other social media services. These services enable you to share, comment, or bookmark pages on our site.
Some pages may also include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
You should be aware that all of these sites and services are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the Internet, including on our site. We recommend that you check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your personal information and to find out how to opt out, or delete, such personal information if you should wish to do so at any time.
Your Rights
You have the right to determine how your data is collected and used by us. In particular:
- Your personal information can only be held on valid bases, such as your consent, and our contractual obligation to provide services to you.
- You have the right to know whether or not we are processing your personal information.
- You can request that your personal information be sent to you in electronic format.
- You have the right to restrict the purposes for which we may use your personal information.
- You have the right to request that incorrect information about you be rectified.
- You have the right to request that your personal information be erased, also known as the “right to be forgotten,” subject only to imperatives of public policy specified in the GDPR (Art. 17.3), or to our own specific needs concerning legal obligations or claims.
You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting us. If you consented to us collecting and/or processing your personal information but change your mind, you can get in touch with us to request that we erase the personal information that we hold about you.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding any aspect of this policy, wish to find out what data we hold about you, or would like to request the erasure of your personal data, please contact us using one of the methods outlined on our contact page.
Cookie Policy
About this cookie policy.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: portobellooptics.com
Your current state: Consent accepted. Allowed all cookies (Necessary, non_necessary, Analytics). Manage your consent.
What are cookies ?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use ?
The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories.
Necessary
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website.
Additional Cookies
Additional cookies add additional functionality to the website, such as showing external widgets, social media feeds, externally hosted videos and other media. They are not required for the core functionality of the site,. however disabling them may result in a lower quality user experience on the site and some elements of the site not working correctly.
Analytics
We set analytics cookies such as Google Analytics to track how people use our site so that we can understand how people use our site. While these cookies are not required for the website to function, they allow us to understand better how people use the site so we can update and improve it in future.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| Necessary | |
| Google ReCAPTCHA Cookies | This website uses a third party service called Google reCAPTCHA to help protect the site from hacking, bots and spammers. This service may set a number of cookies as part of it’s security checks. You can view details of what cookies Google sets and why by visiting Google’s cookie information page. |
| comment_author_url_[hash] | Used to track comment author URL, if “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” checkbox is checked. |
| comment_author_email_[hash] | Used to tracked comment author email, if “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” is checked |
| comment_author_[hash] | Used to tracked comment author name, if “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” is checked. |
| wordpress_[hash] | This cookie is used to store your authentication details when logging in. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | This cookie tests if cookies are enabled on your browser, so we can provide you with the appropriate user experience. |
| _lscache_vary | This cookie is used to store whether you are logged into the site and what your user role is. It us used to help improve site performance for logged in users. |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | This is used to customise the view of the website for logged in users. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | This cookie stores whether or not you are logged into the site. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookies is set by GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress Plugin. The cookie is used to remember the user consent for the cookies under the category “Analytics”. |
| NID | This is a preference cookie set by Google This cookie contains an ID that is used by Google to set your preferences. It is required by the site to enable Googles reCAPTCHA service which is used to protect various parts of the site from attack by bots. |
| ls_smartpush | This cookie is set by Litespeed Server and allows the server to store settings to help improve performance of the site. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Non Necessary”. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category “Necessary”. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users’ unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category “Advertisement”. |
| Additional Cookies | |
| Google Maps Cookies | This website uses the third party service Google Maps. Several cookies are set by Google to enable this service. You can view details of what cookies Google sets and why by visiting Google’s cookie information page. |
| Analytics | |
| Google Analytics Cookies | We use Google Analytics to monitor how visitors use our site, so we can improve our site in future.Google Analytics may set a number of cookies on your site, depending on whether you are logged into a Google account, and what preferences you have set with Google. For details of what cookies Google Analytics may set on our site, please Google Analytics cookie information page. |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
How can I control the cookie preferences ?
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences.
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.