Our Plant Stories Privacy and Cookie Policy  

Our contact details

Name: Our Plant Stories

E-mail: sally@ourplantstories.com

What type of information do we collect?

We currently only collect and process personal information in the form of subscriber email addresses. 

How we get the information and why we have it

The personal information we process is provided to us directly by you when you interact with us, for example, when you subscribe to email updates or contact us for information.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful basis on which we rely for processing this information is your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us via the contact details above.

What we do with the information we have

We use the information that you have given us to send you our weekly blog, to send out links to our podcast as and when episodes are published and to share information generally about our “Our Plant Stories” podcast.

We will never sell or swap your information.

Retention of your information

We take steps to keep your information secure, accurate and up to date.  We aim to protect your information but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our website and transmission is at your risk.

We will keep your information for as long as you are actively involved with us.  If you cease your involvement with us, unsubscribe from our blog or our podcast or request to receive no further contact, we will delete your information as soon as reasonably possible.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us via the contact details at the beginning of this Notice if you wish to make a request.

Squarespace

Data: Our website is hosted on Squarespace Inc (“Squarespace”).  Your data is stored through Squarespace's data storage, databases and the general Squarespace application. They store your data on secure databases protected via a variety of industry-standard access controls. Secure passwords, SSL encryption, disk-based encryption, firewalls, and other measures are in place that helps them to protect your data. However, no company, including Squarespace, can fully eliminate security risks associated with the transmission of personal information through online transactions, and you do so at your own risk. Squarespace will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

For more information, you can read Squarespace's Terms of Service here (https://www.privacypolicies.com/our-terms-of-use/)  or Privacy Statement here (https://www.privacypolicies.com/our-privacy-policy/).

Cookies: Squarespace also uses cookies in the management of our website; functional and required cookies as well as analytics and performance cookies.  For more information on the cookies that Squarespace use please see https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses.  When visiting our website you will be asked if you consent to the use of the analytics and performance cookies.  You are entitled to disable these cookies at any time.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the bottom of this Policy.

You are advised to review this Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page

How to complain

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have handled any concerns you have about our use of your data or would like to raise an issue directly.

The ICO can be contacted here:

https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Latest Update – 3 February 2023.