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Privacy Policy
How we collect, use, and protect your personal data. Your privacy matters to us, and we believe in being transparent about it.
This policy explains what personal data we collect when you visit honeybeeandco.uk, why we collect it, and what rights you have over it. We keep it straightforward because we think privacy policies should be readable, not just legally defensible.
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Who We Are
Our website address is https://honeybeeandco.uk. HoneyBee & Co. is a premium raw honey brand with six generations of beekeeping heritage. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or your data, you can reach us at [email protected].
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What Personal Data We Collect and Why
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 with spam detection.
An anonymised 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: automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public 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.
Contact Forms
When you use our contact form, we collect the information you provide (typically your name, email address, and message) so we can respond to your enquiry. This data is stored securely and used only to handle your request.
Analytics
We may use analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve the experience for everyone. Any data collected through analytics is aggregated and does not personally identify individual visitors.
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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 visit our login page, 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 one day.
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Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles). 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
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Who We Share Your Data With
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Beyond that, we do not sell, trade, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
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How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
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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.
To make a data request, email us at [email protected] and we will respond within one working day.
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Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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How We Protect Your Data
The entire site is served over HTTPS with TLS encryption. Card payments are processed by Stripe and PayPal, both PCI-DSS Level 1 certified. We never store your full card number on our systems. We hold only the last four digits for reference.
We use Cloudflare for additional security and performance, and have implemented Cloudflare Turnstile to protect forms from automated abuse.
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Data Breach Procedures
In the event of a data breach that affects your personal data, we will notify affected users and the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours, in accordance with GDPR requirements.
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Third Parties We Receive Data From
We may receive limited data from payment processors (Stripe, PayPal) to fulfil and manage your orders. We do not purchase or receive personal data from data brokers or other third-party sources for marketing purposes.
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Automated Decision Making and Profiling
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal effects or similarly significant effects on our visitors or customers.
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Your Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, your personal data, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us:
Email: [email protected]
Contact form: honeybeeandco.uk/contact
We typically respond within one working day.
Have a Question?
If anything in this policy is unclear, or you would like to know more about the data we hold, get in touch. We answer every email personally.
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