Privacy Policy for newingtongardeners.co.uk
Last updated: August 26, 2025
The Newington & District Gardeners Association operates the website newingtongardeners.co.uk. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our website and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve our services to members and the public. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
Types of Data Collected:
- Personal Data: While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address (e.g., if you use a contact form)
- First name and last name (e.g., for membership applications or inquiries)
- Any other information you choose to provide.
- Usage Data: We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
- Cookies: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
2. Use of Data
The Newington & District Gardeners Association uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the website.
- To notify you about changes to our club or website.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so.
- To provide member support.
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the website.
- To monitor the usage of the website.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
3. Disclosure of Data
We will not share your personal data with any third parties except with your explicit consent or where required by law.
4. Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Your Data Protection Rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
- Your right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about how we use your personal data.
- Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.
- Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate.
- Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via the contact details provided on our website.
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 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
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.
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.