Your privacy is very important to us. At SM Owners UK we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site. It is SM Owners UK’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
SM Owners UK Ltd. (“SM Owners UK”) operates citroen-sm.uk and is the data controller for the purposes of GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Our address is Church Farm, Church Road, Wacton, Norfolk, NR15 2UG. This is also the contact for privacy and data.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, SM Owners UK collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SM Owners UK’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SM Owners UK’s visitors use its website. From time to time, SM Owners UK may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
SM Owners UK also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. SM Owners UK only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to SM Owners UK’s websites choose to interact with SM Owners UK in ways that require SM Owners UK to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SM Owners UK gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address, we will also record their IP address for security. Those who wish to receive our newsletter updates via email, we collect their emails. When you register for membership on our site we also ask for some compulsory address information. Details of the car you own are also requested so we can help record which cars are still roadworthy. In each case, SM Owners UK collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SM Owners UK. SM Owners UK does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
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: 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
If you contact us via our contact form then we will store your contact details and the text you write. This will only be used to answer your query. Your email address will not be used for marketing purposes.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Aggregated Statistics
SM Owners UK may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, SM Owners UK may monitor the most popular pages on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. SM Owners UK may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SM Owners UK does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
SM Owners UK discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SM Owners UK’s behalf or to provide services available at SM Owners UK’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using SM Owners UK’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SM Owners UK will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SM Owners UK discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SM Owners UK believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SM Owners UK, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an SM Owners UK website and have supplied your email address, SM Owners UK may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SM Owners UK and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SM Owners UK takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers
If SM Owners UK, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SM Owners UK goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of SM Owners UK may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by SM Owners UK and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track usage of our site. Google use cookies to track which pages are visited.
Security for your information
Your information is held securely by us. We have taken all reasonable steps, and have in place appropriate security measures, to protect your information. Your information is not transferred outside the European Economic Area. Our website is hosted by Go Daddy on EU servers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, SM Owners UK may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SM Owners UK’s sole discretion. SM Owners UK encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Your rights
You may ask us not to process your information for marketing purposes.
You are entitled to a copy of the information we hold about you, and to ask us to correct any inaccuracies.
If you have registered for membership via our website you can see, amend or delete any information that we hold about you via your profile page.
You may ask us to stop using your information, and to delete it, although we maintain a skeleton set of your information. If you ask us to do this we will not be able to continue our contract with you.
You may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner (www.ico.org.uk).