Privacy Policy
Great Estates takes the privacy of its users seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users while providing a personalised and valuable service. This Privacy Policy statement explains the data processing practices of Great Estates. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us by email.
Info@great-estates.co.uk
Privacy
Personal information is collected by Great Estates. We collect personal information from you through the use of enquiry and registration forms and every time you e-mail us your details. We also collect information automatically about your visit to our site. The information obtained in this way, which includes demographic data and browsing patterns, is only used in aggregate form.
Use and Disclosure of personal information
We process personal information collected via the Great Estates site for the purposes of:
- providing a personalised service
- conducting market research surveys
- providing you with information about products and services we offer.
If you do not wish to receive information about our products or services, please un-tick the appropriate box on any form you submit. We may also disclose your information to business partners and third party suppliers we engage to provide services that involve processing data on our behalf, successors in title to our business or in accordance with a properly executed court orderWe also use information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified):
- to build up marketing profiles
- to aid strategic development
- to manage our relationship with advertisers
- to audit usage of the site
Use of cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system.
The use of Google Analytics and Cookies
We use first-party cookies in order to track visitor interactions and generate custom reporting via Google Analytics. Cookies are text files sent between the users computer and a website that contain information about your visit. Users do have the option to refuse cookies by accessing privacy settings within their browser.
The use of Re-marketing and Cookies
This website uses the Google Ad-words re-marketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Great Estates website. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page, and if you want to you can opt-out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or by using a browser plugin.
Refusing Cookies
To refuse to accept cookies please follow the below instructions:
In Chrome, you can adjust your cookie settings by clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content Settings”
In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector
In Safari, you can adjust your cookie settings by clicking “Safari”, “Preferences” and “Privacy”
In Firefox, you can adjust your cookie settings by clicking “Tools “, “Options” and “Privacy”
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on your interactivity with some websites.
Links to Other Sites
Great Estates contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Great Estates is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
Internet-based transfers – Given that the internet is a global environment, using the internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing the Great Estates site and communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://staging.great-estates.co.uk.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
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.
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.
Analytics
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 to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact information
Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Tel: 0800 002 5487 – info@great-estates.co.uk