Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website can be found at: rsdirectbristol.co.uk

Comments

When users leave comments on our website, we collect the information provided in the comment form, along with the user’s IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us identify and prevent spam. Additionally, we may generate an anonymized version of your email address to verify your use of the Gravatar service. For further details, you can review the Gravatar Privacy Policy. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if available) will be displayed publicly alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, we advise that you refrain from including any embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors might be able to download and extract location data from images uploaded to the site.

Cookies

When you leave a comment, you have the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. This means you won’t have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment, and these cookies will remain active for one year. When visiting our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to verify if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not store any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser. After logging in, several cookies will be created to remember your login credentials and display preferences. Login cookies remain for two days, while display preference cookies last for one year. If you choose the “Remember Me” option, your session will persist for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies. Additionally, when you edit or publish an article, a new cookie will be stored in your browser to track the post ID of the article you edited, and this cookie expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Our website may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from external sites. This embedded content behaves the same way as if you were visiting the third-party site directly. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and implement additional tracking mechanisms to monitor how you interact with the embedded content, particularly if you are logged into their platform.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email sent to you.

Data Retention

We retain comments and their associated metadata indefinitely. This allows us to automatically approve subsequent comments without needing to review them. For registered users (if applicable), we store the personal information provided in their user profiles. Users have the ability to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators also have access to this information and can make modifications if necessary.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account on our website or have left comments, you have the right to request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you, including any information you’ve provided. You also have the right to request the deletion of your personal data. However, this does not apply to data we need to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may be processed through an automated spam detection service.