This privacy policy applies to the website available at https://ukabove.co.uk, including northeastabove.co.uk and yorkshireabove.co.uk. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our clients. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under Data Protection Registration Certificate ZC147651.

When visitors submit comments on the website, we collect the data entered in the comments form, together with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, for the purposes of spam detection and website security.

An anonymised string generated from your email address, known as a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture, if applicable, will be publicly visible in connection with your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that include embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images published on the website.

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These cookies are provided for your convenience so that you do not need to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. They are retained for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set cookies to store your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies are retained for two days, and screen options cookies are retained for one year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will remain active for two weeks. When you log out, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and records only the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

Articles on this website may include embedded content, including videos, images or articles. Embedded content from third-party websites operates in the same way as if you had visited the third-party website directly.

Those third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking technologies and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including where you have an account with, and are logged in to, that third-party website.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its associated metadata are retained indefinitely. This enables us to recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, where registration is available, we store the personal information provided in each user profile. Registered users may view, edit or delete their personal information at any time, except that usernames cannot be changed. Website administrators may also view and edit that information.

If you have an account on this website or have submitted comments, you may request an exported copy of the personal data we hold about you, including any personal data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase personal data we hold about you. This right does not apply to data that we are required or permitted to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be processed by an automated spam detection service.