Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://yellowtractor.co.uk

Cookies

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through
its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

We may use cookies to remember personal settings you have chosen at our website. In no other context do we use cookies to collect information that identifies you personally. Most of the cookies we set are automatically deleted from your computer when you leave our website or shortly afterwards.

Most of the cookies we set are automatically deleted from your computer when you leave our website or shortly afterwards.

We use anonymous session cookies(short-term cookies that disappear when you close your browser) to help you navigate the website and make the most of the features.

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.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

Should users wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

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.

Comments

If the ability to comment is activated on any news or blog post and 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 anonymized 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.

How we use your information

We collect and use your Personal Data to provide you with information and advice about services that you may request using the Contact Form on the website.

We may also collect non-personally identifying information about your visit to our websites based on your browsing activities. This information may include the pages you browse, and products and services viewed. This helps us to better manage and develop our sites, to provide you with a more enjoyable, customized service and experience in the future, and to help us develop and deliver better services tailored to your individual interests and needs.

Individuals, who are not our data subjects, may contact us via phone, email or other means for various reasons of their own. In such cases, the individual is in control of the information they provide, and we will only use the data for the purpose of responding to the communication.

Sharing your information with third-parties

Yellow Tractor will not share or sell personal information to third-party organisations for marketing or campaigning purposes.

We may pass your Personal Data on to:

  • Third-party service providers contracted to Yellow Tractor in the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide you on our behalf.
  • If we wish to pass your sensitive Personal Data (as defined in the GDPR) onto a third party (eg. Drone operator, photographer, illustrator) we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required to do otherwise.
  • Auditors and other professional advisers

How and when will you hear from us

If you have contacted us by email or via the contact form we will usually respond within 5 working days.

How long we retain your data

If you choose to get in touch with us using the Contact Us form on our website, the length of time we keep your personal data for will depend on the data and why we need it. You have the right to ask us to remove your personal data from our records at any time and we will endeavour to meet your request within one calendar month.

If the ability to comment is activated on any news or blog post, and you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We may retain personal data for longer periods where required by applicable law or regulation or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights as provided for in the data protection legislation.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how we are using your personal information we’d like to hear about it. We appreciate the opportunity this feedback gives us to learn and improve. 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the supervisory authority (Information Commissioner’s Office). Please visit the ICO website for further information.

Changes to this policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice so please do check back from time to time. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website.

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding this policy email:

paul@yellowtractor.co.uk