Privacy Summary
At rainwaterharvesting.co.uk we are committed to maintaining your privacy. Our privacy policy statement is given below. If we make changes to this policy, we will notify you by updating this statement on our website.
What information do we collect?
We ask for your name, telephone number, home address and email address for competitions, prize draws or newsletter sign ups. When a purchase is made on our site, in addition to the above, we also ask for delivery address, and payment method details. We may obtain information about your usage of our Web site to help us develop and improve it further.
What the data will be used for?
Your data will enable us, and our processors, to fulfil your order and to notify you about important functionality changes. We comply with the standards, procedures and requirements laid down in the UK Data Protection Act to ensure that the personal information you give us is kept secure and processed fairly and lawfully.
We WILL NOT make our mailing list available to other companies.
In assessing your request for goods or services, we may use your information for the purposes of the prevention and detection of fraud. One of the purposes for which we may disclose your address and postcode details is to check against the IMRG Security Alert or any other Fraud Prevention Scheme. At all times where we disclose your information it will remain secure.
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Cookies and Privacy in Detail
How we use your information
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Rainwater Harvesting Ltd collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
*Visitors to our websites;
*Complainants and other individuals in relation to a data protection or freedom of information complaint or enquiry;
*People who use our services, eg who subscribe to our newsletter or request a publication from us;
*People who notify under the Data Protection Act;
*Job applicants and our current and former employees.
Visitors to our websites
When someone visits www.rainwaterharvesting.co.uk we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting any of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Use of cookies by Rainwater Harvesting Ltd
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Google Analytics Privacy Policy |
| RWH site cookie acceptance | RWHCookiesAccepted | This cookie is used to record if a user has accepted the use of cookies on the RWH website | |
| Online notification form | cookie ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is essential for the online notification form – the form that data controllers can use to notify with Rainwater Harvesting Ltd – to operate. It is set only for those people using the form. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. | Microsoft: How and why session IDs are reused in ASP.NET |
| Content Management System cookie | rwh62#sc_wede | This cookie is set by our content management system on a small number of browsers, upon arrival to Rainwater Harvesting Ltd site. It is not used by Rainwater Harvesting Ltd for any purpose. This cookie is deleted when a user closes their browser. | The supplier of our content management system (the software we use to update our website) is working to remove this cookie from their product. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
YouTube cookies
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Search engine
The search engine on our website (if used) is designed to be as powerful and easy to use as the popular search engine Google. The search is made possible by a piece of hardware (a search ‘appliance’) supplied by Google that is plugged into our server and continuously indexes the content on our site. All search requests are handled by the appliance and the information is not passed on to any third party, including Google.
Last Updated: October 2021
