Privacy policy and cookie notice
Last updated: March 2020
Contact information
The Guide and Lead Website, found at guideandlead.com, including all information and materials contained on it, is managed by Guide and Lead.
To contact us, please send an Email using our contact page.
Our privacy policy
Guide and Lead is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our users. This Privacy Policy governs all pages on the domain guideandlead.com. It does not apply to pages hosted by other organizations, including the websites of third-party sites. The Guide and Lead Website (the “Website”) may be linked to the websites of such other parties, but those other sites may have their own privacy policies which apply to them.
By using the Website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Guide and Lead may change the terms of this Privacy Policy from time to time and, if such changes are made, we will notify you of those changes by contacting you if appropriate or publishing the updated Privacy Notice on our website. Your continued use of the Website will be on the terms of this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.
WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND STORE?
The type and amount of information we receive and store depends on how you use the Website. You can access most of the pages on the Website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our web servers collect anonymous logs during user visits to the Website. This information may be used to create aggregate statistics about how the Website is used (see our Cookies Notice below for more information about this).
We do not collect personal information (such as your name, e-mail address or country of residence) on the Website unless you choose to provide it. For example, where you express an interest in subscribing to our email updates or comment on our blog.
By subscribing to our email updates or by commenting on our blog, you have provided us with your consent to process your personal data and send you information.
HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR DATA?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.
HOW DO WE USE INFORMATION COLLECTED?
Where you have provided your consent for your personal information to be processed by Guide and Lead and its associates, it will be done in a secure environment and only used in connection with the purposes for which it is submitted. At Guide and Lead, we process personal data in order to send you email updates about the work we are doing, general information or as necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The information you provide will not be sold. We shall only share your personal information if we are required to disclose it by law.
If you choose to email us directly using the ‘Contact us’ facility, we have a legitimate interest to process your personal information for the purposes of reply or to forward to the appropriate Guide and Lead Staff member for action. E-mail addresses are not otherwise retained. E-mail addresses are not passed to any third party.
Sending data outside the European Union
In order to administer the site, we share personal data with third party service providers that perform functions on our behalf, such as a company that hosts our website. They have access to personal data needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes. In some cases, this may involve processing personal data outside of the UK and European Union.
Where your personal information is transferred to a service provider we will ensure that your data is protected to the same extent as in the European Union through one of the following safeguards:
- Transfer to a non-EU country whose privacy legislation the ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data as determined by the European Commission; or
- Put in place a contract with the service provider office that means they must protect personal data to the same standards required by the European Union.
OPTING OUT OF RECEIVING MESSAGES FROM Guide And Lead
We will hold your personal information for as long as you continue to subscribe to our mailing list or website blog. Any e-mail we send you will enable you to opt out of receiving further e-mails from us. If you choose to unsubscribe from receiving further emails, we will immediately stop sending you any communications and we will remove your personal information from our system within six months. You can also request that we remove you from our mailing lists by contacting us by info@guideandlead.com or using our contact form.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT and the general data protection regulation
The collection and use of personal information on this site is in accordance with the Data Protection Act (DPA) of 1998 (UK), the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). More information can be found at the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Complaints
If you wish to make a formal complaint to the supervisory authority where you live, or work or where you believe there has been an infringement of your rights under the GDPR, please contact the supervisory authority in the relevant EU Member state. In the UK the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have rights of access to personal information that we hold about you, to correct or delete that information or, in some circumstances, to object to our processing of your information, under data privacy law. If you wish to exercise any of these rights or have any questions about this policy, please contact info@guideandlead.com. Please give responses some time.
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.
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 anonymized 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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
OUR COOKIE NOTICE
A cookie is a text-only piece of information that a website transfers to your web browser so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will normally contain the name of the Internet domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
Guide And Lead uses cookies and analysis software for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. For example, measuring how many people are using each page of the website and for how long so that we can try to improve the quality of our website.
This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
By using our Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. To prevent the download of cookies, or otherwise control how cookies are used on your computer, please read the help information supplied with your Internet browser software, go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or read further instructions below.
OUR USE OF COOKIES
Google Analytics
The Website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Guide And Lead.
Guide And Lead will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Guide And Lead nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. See Google’s Analytics overview for further information.
Akismet
This Website uses a service called Akismet to collect anonymous data about user behaviour on some of the Website’s pages and to analyze stop spam comments. To do this, Akismet will deposit a cookie in your browser.
Neither Guide And Lead Project nor Akismet will use this information to personally identify our Website’s users. Find out more in regards to the privacy policy of Akismet : https://akismet.com/tos .
Matomo
This website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source software for statistical analysis of visitor access. Matomo uses so-called cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is stored on a server in Germany.
The IP address is anonymised immediately after processing and before it is stored. You have the option of preventing the installation of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software. We would like to point out that if you change the setting accordingly, not all functions of this website may be available.
You can decide whether a unique web analysis cookie may be stored in your browser to enable the website operator to collect and analyse various statistical data.
Third-party cookies
To enrich our content, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, Facebook or Twitter, these sites may set a cookie.
This Website also has ‘share’ buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through social networks, for example, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service.
Guide and Lead does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.
DISABLING AND ENABLING COOKIES
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this Website.
To disable cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options, then on the tab marked ‘Privacy’; Move the slider to the position corresponding to the level of cookie acceptance/denial acceptable to you.
To remove existing cookies if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer: Click on ‘Tools’ in the top menu, then on Internet Options; In the section marked ‘Browsing History’, click on ‘Delete…’; In the section marked ‘Cookies’ click on ‘Delete cookies’; Click on ‘Yes’ or hit the ‘Enter’ key.
To disable cookies in other browsers see the links below:
Other browsers have similar cookie management abilities in their settings, please refer to your browser’s ‘Help’ facility.
Find more detailed information on disabling cookies here: www.aboutcookies.org.
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.