Short Privacy Policy:

We hope this privacy policy will help you better understand how any data gathered on you when browsing our website is used.

We understand that no one likes reading a long privacy policy, so a brief summer of this page is Gardinia Windows (Kirklees) Ltd do not collect any data that can identify you as an individual, unless you fill in one of the contact forms and provide personal details that enable us to contact you for the purpose of responding to your query.

However you should be aware the ip address you browse our website from is logged. We use services from Google to gain insights on how people interact with our website. We do not have the ability to identify you as an individual from this data or your IP address, however it’s possible a third party might be able to based on other information they have collected on you from else where on the internet. We use the data from Google Analytics to understand how people interact with our website. This is explained in more detail on our technical privacy policy below.

Technical Privacy Policy:

Cookies:

Our website is powered by WordPress, certain functionality of WordPress requires the use of cookies. If you leave a comment on the Gardinia Blog, a cookie will be stored on the device you are browsing on. This is purely a convenience, so you won’t need to re-type your information again if you were to leave another comment in the future.

Third Party Cookies:

These are cookies set on your device by external websites whose services are used on this site.

Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) is used to protect our website from malicious attacks. Cloudflare may leave a cookie on your device to identify that you are a safe user, therefor are not challenged to prove this when browsing our site. You can read more about the Cloudflare cfduid cookie here.

Google Analytics:

We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We therefore do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.

In addition to the third party cookie mentioned above, Google will also store cookies on your device to enable Google Analytics to function as intended.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy regarding its analytics service here.

Google AdWords:

AdWords is an online advertising platform by Google which allows Gardinia to run Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. These adverts can be targeted at customers Google perceive are interested in our products. We have tags for this setup on our website to allow us to track how effective the campaign has been and to remarket to customers who have browsed our website in the past. This means you might see adverts for our products on other websites you browse, which show Google Adverts.

To learn exactly how Google uses information from sites or apps that use Google services please see: Google’s Privacy & Terms.

Contact Form:

The information you provide on our contact forms will only ever be used for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry. Information entered on the contact form will arrive on our network as an email for the appropriate member of staff to deal with. All members of staff with access to the computer systems at Gardinia Windows are trained on how to deal with customers data.

Embedded content from other websites

Some of our articles may include embedded content, for example videos from YouTube. Embedded content from other websites such as YouTube behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited that particular website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies or embed additional third-party tracking to monitor your interaction with that embedded content, if you have an account on that website your interaction with embedded content could be linked to it.

This concludes the privacy policy for our website.

We do believe customers should understand how they can both control and delete cookies from their device, it never hurts to clear your cookies and temporary internet files every so often. About Cookies (aboutcookies.org) is a website that has been setup to educate people on how to control and delete cookies stored on their web browser. We would recommend having a read to better understand how you can gain more control over cookies and temporary internet files.