Privacy Policy

www.davechant.com

Updated: June 29, 2020.

Introduction

Dave Chant (otherwise known as “The Company”, “we”, “us”, “website” or “davechant.com”) is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit davechant.com.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website. Please read this before you start to use the website, as by using davechant.com or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms and Conditions when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy.

If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

We do not collect personal information, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses from you unless knowingly provided by the individual, and you agree to the terms under which davechant.com will use it.

Should you wish, you can access davechant.com and browse the site without disclosing any of your personal information.

Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is important. We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16, and no part of the site is constructed to attract children under 16.

If you are under 16, we request you do not provide any information on this website or through any of the features on the website, make purchases through the website, or use any of the interactive or public features such as commenting on posts.

This includes not providing us with your name, address, telephone number, email address, screen or username, and any other contact details.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification or parental consent, we will and are within our rights to delete that information.

If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at dave@davechant.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Information We Collect About You

We may collect personal information from you such as your full name and email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. In addition, you are able to create a user profile, which allows you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.

Generally, data will be collected in three main ways:-

Newsletters Opt-Ins. If you decide you want to access or be sent our newsletters, we will obtain your name and email address.
By posting a comment on the website or forum, we will collect your name, email address and the actual comment. You consent to the posting of this Personal Information, and should be aware that it can be read, collected or used by other visitors to these public information. Please note that we have no control over how these visitors can use your Personal Information
If you make any transactions on the website, we will collect your name, email address, billing information and payment source.

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
Provide and deliver the information, products and services you request, process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and receipts;
Communicate with you about products, services, surveys, offers, promotions, rewards and events offered by Company and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your national insurance number or equivalent (like social security number), information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect from Others

We may receive information about you from other sources.

You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account. The Website utilises the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Website post, your profile picture will appear.

Automatically-Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Third Party Use of Personal Information

We may share your information with third parties only when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Cookies

We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.

The Website uses cookies and server logs to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, date and time of visits, time spent at the site, your IP address, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Dave Chant has financial relationships with a number of companies mentioned on this website, and davechant.com may be compensated if you book via the links on this website.

Newsletters

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behaviour will not be passed on to third parties.

External Web Sites

Please note that davechant.com contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites.

We encourage our users to be aware that when they leave our site that you read the privacy statements of each web site that might collect personally identifying information.

Data Protection

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically.

This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk.

Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Rights

If you are with the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA), you are entitled to certain information. You have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation which came into force on 25 May 2018 and supersede the Data Protection Directive adopted in 1995. It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas.

Predominately this gives users a right to access and erasure of their data.

To this end we will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until either you asking us to delete the information, or our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

You have the right to request access to your data that we store about you.

You have the right to amend or update your personal information.

After providing consent to us to process your personal data, you have the right at any time to withdraw that consent.

As part of this you have the right to opt out of future email communications and newsletters by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.

You may also request that we erase or forget your personal data.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We obtain only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Should you wish to have any information deleted, amended, or to request access to any data that we store on you, please email us at dave@davechant.com and submit a request.

Changes

It may be necessary to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, especially as the website evolves and UK (and other laws) are changed or added. If we do, we will revise the data at the top of the policy.

We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.