Here at cohesian, we respect your privacy and are committed to maintaining the trust of our visitors. We want you to know that we are not in the business of buying or selling personal information for any purposes. We simply don’t do that sort of thing. In this Privacy Notice, we’ve provided the details of when and why we collect your information, how we use it and how we keep it secure.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.cohesian.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.

Contact forms

We may have obtained your email address (with your consent) as a result of you sharing it with us in person or via an enquiry made from the contact form on this website. These contact details are stored on a password encrypted computer in Cardiff and used for the sole purpose of communication.

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.

Security

With the ongoing threat of hacking, we utilise software on our website that helps us monitor firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses in a bid to keep our data safe. Data captured include: IP addresses, location (when known), Time (local timezone), browser type and user agent.

How to turn off cookies

If you do not want to accept these cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some functionality of this website.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

When someone visits cohesian.co.uk we use Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

You are entitled to amend or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to: Sian Erickson: sian@cohesian.co.uk

This privacy notice was last updated on: 25 July 2018.