DATA PRIVACY
Here at The Hobbs Consultancy, we care about your data as much as we care about you. There are two instances in which The Hobbs Consultancy will collect your data:
When you give it to us directly:
1/ If you are a client of ours or if you have made an enquiry about services we provide via our website. We will keep your details on our records for 5 years after you cease being a client of ours or cease communications with us. As a client of ours we will automatically add you to our mailing list, you can withdraw from this at any time by following the unsubscribe link or dropping us an email asking to remove you. The data we hold is your name, email address, telephone number, company name, and company address. If you are a private, parental or executive coaching client, our coaches will keep confidential records about your sessions for legal reasons and destroy these after 5 years.
2/ By subscribing to our mailing list, you are subscribing to receive email communications from us, from time-to-time, in order to keep you informed of our D&I services, offers, competitions, as well as provide insightful personal development communications. You have the right to remove yourself from this mailing list at any time, either via the unsubscribe option or in an email to us. The only data we have is your name and email address. We will never share your details outside of The Hobbs Consultancy.
When you visit our website:
In May 2012 EU legislation changed requesting that information be provided to site visitors if any ‘cookie’ data is collected. A last minute change was made to this law which removed the requirement to have a pop-up cookie opt-in agreement for site visitors. We use Yola to host our website. They rely on the principle of ‘implied consent’, by visiting our website you understand that visit will result in cookies being used. Yola place two cookies on visitors to our site - one tracks analytics and the other is placed by Yola, but hosted at quantcast.com, tracking aggregate visitor information across Yola hosted sites.
A cookie is a small text file created when your devices accesses a website. It allows the website to recognise the device and store some information about the user’s preferences or past actions. This data is anonymous and never linked to any other information. It tells us which pages you visit on our website and whether you are a return visitor.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your e-mail 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: https://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
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, e-mail 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 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
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.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.