At VoiceNotes, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
This policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.
Legislation
This website is designed to comply with the following legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
- UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA) – this link will take you to an external government page.
Personal information collected on this website and why we collect it
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Like many other websites, the VoiceNotes website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies of may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
Site visitation tracking
This site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user behaviour. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website. We use this data to change our website to better suit our users needs.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see below).
GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.
Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.
Human / spam bot verification
This site uses the Wordfence security product to ensure the integrity of this site. Wordfence uses cookies for three tasks:
- To uniquely identify visitors shown in Wordfence Live traffic. This does not personally identify you.
- To track a user who was previously logged into WordPress but has logged out to ensure that Falcon cache does not show that user cached pages. This is for administrative users only and does not personally identify you.
- If a user has visited a unique page that allows them to bypass country blocking a cookie is set to identify that user so that country blocking does not prevent them from viewing the site. This does not personally identify you.
The following cookies are set by WordFence:
- wordfence_verifiedHuman – Wordfence Cookie used to verify if the visitor is a bot or human.
- wfvt_xxxxxxxxxx – Wordfence Tracks a user duration so that so that the page views can be grouped together for administrative reporting.
Contact forms
Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page or any form submission on this site, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to / be processed by any third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (also known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet.
How we store your data
We don’t have comments enabled on our blog and as mentioned in the “contact forms” section, your data will not be stored by this website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.
About this website’s server
This website is served by Delivered Social, based in Guildford, UK
Our 3rd party data processors
We use a 3rd party (Google Analytics) to process personal data on our behalf. This third party has been carefully chosen and complies with the legislation set out in the “Legislation” section above. They are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.
Google (Privacy policy)
Data breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s or any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
Data controller
The data controller of this website is:
VoiceNotes
5 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London, SW8 4BG
Data protection officer
Mr. Ben Wilder
Director, VoiceNotes
Email: dpo@voicenotes.co.uk
This privacy policy was last updated 2021
