1. Scope and General Information
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and its subdomains with regards to the information that they shared and/or collected on mertin.uk. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
2. Information We Collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
- Information you provide directly: If you contact us directly (e.g., via contact forms or email), we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
- Automatically collected data: When you visit our website or subdomains, our servers automatically collect certain information from your device, including your IP address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamps, and referring/exit pages.
3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Like any other website, mertin.uk uses "cookies." These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to site. Google uses the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected on the website to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits by disabling cookies on your browser or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our website. Google's use of the advertising cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.
- Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website and subdomains.
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website content and features.
- Understand and analyze how you use our website.
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website.
- Find and prevent fraud.
5. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users (such as analytics and ad providers), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
6. Data Security
We implement appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information. However, remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location (such as under the UK GDPR / EU GDPR), you have certain data protection rights. These may include:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to reach out via feedback@mertin.uk.