Who we are
Our website address is: https://thetowbaryorkshire.co.uk.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 spam detection. We only collect data for communicating with you, analytics purposes and improving your website experience.
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 & MESSAGES
We collect the personal data you send to us and we only use this for contacting you and for our records. We do not share your details with anyone else without your consent.
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 between 30 days and one year.
We use cookies for Google Analytics tracking.
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 1 day.
Information That is Passively or Automatically Collected:
- Device, Usage & Location Information:
We automatically receive and store certain information from devices that you use to access the Services. This information is collected passively by using various technologies and includes the type of geolocation information, Internet browser or mobile device you use, any website from which you have come to the Services, your operating system, and location data through an IP address that identifies the city and country your device is based. This is done through Google Analytics and our hosting service. The information is stored and used according to Google Analytics’ thorough privacy policies.
- Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies: When you use our Services, we use cookies, web beacons, and pixel tags to track and store information about your usage. These technologies help us to provide a simple and meaningful experience.
- Type of Cookies To provide the best service on our website, some Cookies are strictly necessary to make our Services available to you (“Essential Cookies”). We also use Cookies to maintain functions and some of our Services for your experience, and we may use them for marketing purposes (collectively, “Non-Essential Cookies”). We may use Non-Essential Cookies to collect and process data on our behalf. Also, we use social networking integrations for our galleries, which may be subject to that social platform’s privacy and cookie policies.
- Function Cookies: We use cache and website performance cookies to improve the speed and experience on our website. Our cache plugin cookie duration is 2 days, and this cookie is set to provide the prevention of cached pages.
Information to and from Social Networking Services Non-Essential Cookies include Cookies we use in conjunction with the Social Networking Services. These may allow you to enable or log into the Services via various social media applications/services, like Facebook or Instagram, or to upload videos using YouTube APIs (“Social Networking Service(s)”). Direct integration of these services is to improve your online experiences. When you access your Social Networking Services account, we do not collect login information – only the necessary fields that you enable. In most cases, we are not collecting any data from the Services you access Social Networking Services from our website. We only ever access information that you permit the Social Networking Service to share with us.
Any disclosed information is kept in accordance with this Notice. However, your Social Networking Services are governed by the policies of such third parties, and The Tow Bar Yorkshire has no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Social Networking Services that may be enabled or accessed from our website. For example, if you share content using Meta’s platforms, Meta’s privacy policy and terms of service would apply to your data.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics and Tag Manager for website analytics on our website to analyse users activities and profiles on our website. From time to time, we may use Google Signal features such as user id tracking, dynamic remarketing, interest-based advertising, audience targeting, behavioural reporting, demographics and interests reporting, user segment analysis, device reporting, display advertising, and video ads reporting. This information may be used for advertising. To limit Google Analytics from using your information for analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here. You can also adjust your advertising settings by clicking here.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to collect information about our users to help us improve our website, personalise your experience and measure events and actions on our site. As we adopt additional technologies, we may gather additional information through other methods. We will notify you of such changes with updates to this Notice.
Your Cookie Preferences
You can opt out of Cookies in your device settings or browser, and we have also enabled consent mode on our website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, images from Instagram etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same way as if the visitor had 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.
Who we share your data with
Your data is not shared with anyone, without your permission. In some circumstances, when you have requested information on additional services, we may share your details with trusted partners and suppliers. This will not be done without your permission and prior communication.
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. Please email our Data Protection Manager for any questions or requests: hello@thetowbaryorkshire.co.uk