Who we are

Our website address is: https://harbrooke.com.

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 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.

Email List:  Should you elect to, you may sign up on our email list. If you do so, you are providing your Name, and Email for purposes of our email marketing.  These forms are double opt-in, requiring your explicit consent. We may use your email address for additional marketing purposes, but we currently don’t do this.

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

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 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.

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

Who we share your data with

We use Google Analytics on this site. Data is retained on our Google Analytics site indefinitely. Your IP address is anonymized and is not kept as PII.

How long 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.

Your Google Analytics information, with an anonymized IP address, is kept indefinitely.

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet.

Your contact information

We do not collect your information unless you provide it directly in a contact form. If you need us to provide more information, you may email privacy {at} harbrooke in the dotcom domain.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We host on a server that is managed by a reputible company. Our accounts use industry standard HTTPS and strong passwords for login, and are limited to only to the relevant users for access.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Our data is stored on industry-standard servers, with proper standard security measures. Should our email or analytics data be breached, we will inform you via our email list and social media accounts. We don’t have any PII associated with any payment methods on our servers.

What third parties we receive data from

We don’t obtain 3rd party data.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We don’t currently use automated decision making or do profiling using automated data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Harbrooke has no current clients requiring additional disclosures.