At Essex-Wags we guarantee our commitment to respecting and protecting your online privacy.

This includes your need and your right to know what we do with the personal information you share with us. It also guides our company’s policies regarding the management of this data, including how the information is collected, processed, and for what purposes.

The collection of information

Every time you visit our website your IP (Internet Protocol) address registers on our servers. Your IP address reveals no information other than the number assigned to you. We do not use this technology to get any personal data against your knowledge or free will (e.g. automatically recording e-mail addresses of visitors); nor do we use it for any purpose other than to help us monitor traffic on our website, or (in case of criminal activity or misuse of our information) to co-operate with law enforcement.

Any information you choose to share with us through the contact form on this website will be used solely for the purpose of responding to your enquiry. We will not use this information to send you unsolicited communications, nor will your details be passed on to any third parties other than where it is necessary to fulfil your request.

Cookies

We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit allaboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.

You can also browse the site without setting cookies by using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, “Private Browsing” in Firefox and Safari etc.)

First Party Cookies

These are cookies that are set by this website directly.

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. You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its Analytics service on its website.

WordPress: Our website is built using WordPress. Cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with WordPress, and whether you have logged into WordPress. We use a session cookie to remember your login for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.

More information on session cookies and what they are used for can be found on the All About Cookies site.

Third Party Cookies

These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type may be set by sites such as Twitter and Facebook using scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website.

You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out of, or delete, such information.

Access to your personal information

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Please email your request to our data protection officer.