This privacy policy describes how makingyourlemonade.com uses and protects any information that you provide when using this website.
makingyourlemonade.com is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. makingyourlemonade.com may occasionally change this policy by updating this page. Please check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
This policy is effective from 06/09/2021.
I may collect the following information: name, contact information (including email address), demographic information (such as postcode, preferences, and interests) and other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers.
What I Do With The Information Gathered
I require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, particularly for the purpose of internal record keeping. I may use the information to improve my products and services. I may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which I think you may find interesting, using the email address which you have provided. I may also use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Security
I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, I have placed suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information I collect online.
Cookies
I use technologies, such as cookies (https://www.aboutcookies.org) to customize content and advertising, to provide social media features, and to analyze traffic to the site. I may also share information about your use of my site with my trusted social media, advertising and analytics partners.
Analytics.google.com
A cookie is a small file which asks for permission to store your information on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree to this, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when others visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. I use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps me analyze data about web page traffic and improve my website in order to tailor it to customer needs. I only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help me to provide you with a better website by enabling me to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives me access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with me.
Social Analytics for Sharing
I also use Google Analytics to track social shares made at my website. Google automatically collects and stores certain information about website visitors in their server logs, which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
I embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and to “like/share/recommend” my webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
I use a Twitter Tweet widget at my website. As a result, my website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet my webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.
I use the Pinterest Save widget on my website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from my webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
Links To Other Websites
My website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave my site, you should note that I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, you will always be given the opportunity to unsubscribe or be removed from any mailings or marketing.
I will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless I have your permission or are required by law to do so. I may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which I think you may find interesting if you tell me that you wish this to happen.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you may request to receive details of personal information which I hold about you. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please contact me via the contact page. Thank you!