Effective Date: 12-02-2015
At UKNetworker, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you use our website, including our member portals, online magazine, and community area.
Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us when you:
- Create a Member Profile: This may include your name, contact information, profile picture, and other information you choose to share.
- Create a Listing in any of the portals: This also may include your name, contact information, profile picture, and other information you choose to share.
- Participate in the Community Area: This includes information you post, comment on, upload, or send via private messages.
- Interact with the Online Magazine: This may include comments you leave on articles.
- Interact with Event Organiser Pages or Event Services Pages: This may include using the comments facility.
- Use the Portals: While the portals themselves don’t collect data, the third-party websites and resources linked within them have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.
- Contact Us: When you contact us through forms or email, we collect the information you provide.
How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Provide and Maintain Services: To operate the website, personalise your experience, and provide you with access to our portals, online magazine, and community area.
- Communicate with You: To send you updates, newsletters (if you subscribe, or if you are a member, with the option to unsubscribe at anytime), and respond to your inquiries.
- Facilitate Community Interaction: To enable posting, commenting, messaging, and other community features.
- Improve Our Services: To analyse website usage and identify areas for improvement.
- Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Information We Share
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information with:
- Trusted Service Providers: We use third-party services, such as ActiveCampaign for email delivery, to help us operate our website and provide our services. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.
- Other Members (Community Area): Information you post or share in the community area will be visible to other members. Private messages are only visible to the sender and recipient(s).
- Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information if required by law or legal process.
Comments
When members leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the member’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the other members 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.
Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. These cookies do not collect personal information.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had 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. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and fulfil the purposes described in this policy. Content you submit, including comments and posts, may be retained indefinitely to maintain context within the community. You can edit or delete your own content where such features are available.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access your data: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Erase your data: You can request that we erase your personal data, subject to any legal obligations we may have to retain certain information.
To exercise these rights, please contact us.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated policy on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at contact@uknetworker.co.uk