Who's Your Mate?

Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ Privacy Policy.

Our contact details .

Name: Who's Your Mate? Pet News™, also used as Who's Your Mate? Pet News™

Email: info@whosyourmatepetnews.co.uk

Address: Oliver Clay, Who's Your Mate? Pet News, PO Box 365, RUNCORN, WA7 7FJ

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ (WYMPN) has automatic access to web traffic data services as provided by the hosting service, Google Cloud, such as web traffic data, in accordance with Google's privacy policy, which can be viewed here (opens new tab). • Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ doesn't routinely share that data with anyone, but may consider sharing it with the relevant authorities to highlight suspicious or malicious activity targeting its websites as outlined under the exemption for law enforcement purposes.

• Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ doesn't use cookies or trackers. For web traffic monitoring such as visitor numbers data, WYMPN uses Plausible Analytics, which is a privacy-first analytics paid service, and WYMPN doesn't use user cookies and trackers.

For web traffic monitoring such as data on how many readers look at an article, WYMPN uses Plausible analytics, which is a paid privacy-first analytics alternative to the well-known players and doesn't use user cookies and trackers.

In the course of its work, Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ may obtain personal information relating to writing articles, competitions, advertising clients in the event their private and personal data overlaps such as using the same phone number or operating a business from home.

This information may include name, telephone number, address in full or part of it, email address or addresses, job title; pet details such as name, age and breed; approximate date of competition entry, competition entry status. Nothing is to be shared with any third parties other than in the course of activity that is public by default, such as articles and competitions. At present the sole competition on the WYMPN site doesn't feature the owner's name publicly but this may be shared when announcing and congratulating winners.

Personal data usage may include correspondence such as emails between WYMPN and the person or for sending a prize, corroborating correspondent identity, logging reports relating to the typo jar so I don't double up, informing the relevant authorities in the event of suspected criminal activity such as threats, veiled or otherwise, attempted bribery or mondey laundering, and animal cruelty (let's hope it never comes to that).

We don't sell anyone's data but may store details such as name, telephone number, address, email, job title, and pet details, as part of an encrypted spreadsheet on a multi-factor protected Google account for the duration of its relevance such as during an ongoing competition and either up to six months on from when it is used last or indefinitely upon the data holder's (i.e. the user, reader, contact etc's) agreement.

The content management system (CMS) database only stores data for publication so in essence the information is public by default. At present WYMPN intends to keep track of substantial article changes in a private Google document or spreadsheet to serve as an archive. Any change such as further developing the CMS would be notified to the public in a short article.

How we store your personal information

Personal information is securely stored on Google's servers.

Automatic logging provided by the hosting service logs the following visitor data: IP address, URL visited, referring URL, size of data transferred in bytes, and user agent, namely the browser for 30 days. Information is then deleted automatically by the hosting service.

Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ might on occasion copy log details to a database stored also on Google's servers for up to six months due to suspicious activity.

Website logging information such is processed for the following reasons: It's a built-in feature of the hosting service and site security.

It isn't intended to be shared with anyone, although in theory could be used to monitor suspicious or hostile activity targetting Who's Your Mate? Pet News™'s websites. In the event of any suspected criminal activity targeting Who's Your Mate? Pet News™'s websites such as cyber attacks, the company will consider sharing or act on sharing the information with the relevant UK authorities such as police, NCA, SFO and Action Fraud and with relevant legal representation in the event of taking action against intellectual property infringement.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ relies on for processing this information is a legitimate interest, namely site security and its automatic inclusion as part of the hosting service.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

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

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask for information believed to be incomplete to be completed.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask for personal information to be erased in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right for the processing of personal information to be restricted in certain circumstances.

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

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask for the transfer of personal information provided to Who's Your Mate? Pet News™ 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, the company has one month to respond to you.

Please make contact at info@whosyourmatepetnews.co.uk to make a request.

How to complain.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint at info@whosyourmatepetnews.co.uk
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how data has been used.

The ICO's address:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

This privacy policy was written using a template published by the ICO.