Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.blackboroughmusic.com. Blackborough is a musical project. Please use the form at https://www.blackboroughmusic.com/contact to request further detail or email blackboroughmusic at gmail.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
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.
Media
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.
Contact forms
The form at https://www.blackboroughmusic.com/contact is used to allow any interested parties to communicate with us by providing their name, email address, and any details they wish to share, but we not use the information submitted through the form for marketing purposes.
Subscription forms
The subscription form used throughout https://www.blackboroughmusic.com is used to allow any interested parties to subcribe to occasional email communciations from Blackborough by providing their name, and/or email address, and/or any details they wish to share. You have the right at any time to stop Blackborough from contacting you for marketing purposes – to do so, please submit the form at https://www.blackboroughmusic.com/contact with word ‘Unsubscribe’ in the provided Subject field, as well as the Message field.
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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Spotify, for example, is a relevant thrid-party and you can review Privacy Policy at https://www.spotify.com
Analytics
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
We use tracking software to monitor the websites visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.
Who we share your data with
- Google – https://policies.google.com
- We use Google Analytics tracking software to monitor the websites visitors to better understand how they use it.
- Mailchimp – https://mailchimp.com/about/security
- We use MailChimp to manage newsletters, mailing lists, and subscriptions to those lists.
- Spotify – https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/privacy-policy/
- We use Spotify to present streaminf auio to you on this website using Spotify’s embed service.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Please note you have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of Data or to object to or request the restriction of processing of your Data. Information about concerns or complaints may be made to the Information Commissioners Office in the UK via https://ico.org.uk/concerns. If you have any questions or if you do not want us to retain or use your personal information, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us at https://www.blackboroughmusic.com/contact.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.