Privacy Policy

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This privacy policy is for the website, www.ambientscape.com and operated by Jonathan Emeruwa. The policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, and the downloading of any documents, ebooks, audio or video files made available to you on this website. My email address is provided if you have any questions.

The DPA & GDPR May 2018

This website complies to the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) 2018.

Contact & communication

Users contacting me through this website do so at their own discretion and that confidentiality will be adhered to if using the services. I ensure that if any personal information is obtained for the purposes of our services provided that this will be protected and stored securely until a time it is not required and no longer than is necessary which is in line with the GDPR statutory retention period.

External website links & third parties

Although I only look to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites).

Shortened URLs; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.

I cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite my best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and I cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Website visitor tracking

Any external website links outside of this site may use tracking software to monitor it's visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

My cookies policy

The website uses some cookies for the following purposes:- to enable my website to function - to provide NOT personally identifiable analytics information - to allow third party tools necessary for the features on my website to function.

Use of cookies on my website

My website uses session cookies and persistent cookies. With session cookies, when the browser closes, the cookie is permanently lost. With persistent cookies used on my website, there is a specific expiration date, upon which the cookie will be automatically removed from your device or computer. The information I collect about you on my website When you visit my website, I collect two types of information about you:​​​​ 1. “Non Personal Information”, which is information that doesn’t identify you personally. This includes the country and region that you're in when you access my website, time of access, the pages you've visited and the time spent on my site. When you access my site, I automatically collect this sort of information via Google analytics cookies. It helps me to have an overview of how people are using my site, which in turn can help me make sensible decisions to improve the user friendliness of my website. Please note that all cookies have been kept to the minimum with careful consideration given to including only what is necessary.

Purpose of cookies

Cookies are there to better the user’s experience while visiting the website and can be blocked at any time by using the user’s software options or the website’s blocking functions.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

Your choices regarding cookies

You can choose to delete, block or disable all cookies from all websites, or some websites. If you choose to block cookies, you just need to be aware that some of the features on my website may be inactive and some of my pages might not display correctly. This will be the case for most other websites too. Should this happen, you always have the option of changing back your cookies setting again.

How to disable cookies

If you'd like to restrict the use of cookies, you can do this through your browser settings.

Social media usage

Whilst I may have official profiles on social media platforms such as youtube, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. I will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms.

There may be instances where my website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies on their websites.

Downloads & media files

Any downloadable documents, ebooks, audio or videos made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. Whilst all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications. I accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and if you request notification of these changes this will be sent by e-mail. Please check back at a later date to see if there are any updates to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected]

Updated 16-03-2021