PRIVACY POLICY

THE DIABETIC TRAVELERS NETWORK WEBSITE

The policy: This privacy policy notice is served by The Diabetic Travelers Network Ltd. under the website; www.diabetictravelersnetwork.com. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

Policy key definitions:

  • "I", "our", "us", or "we" refer to the business The Diabetic Travelers Network Ltd.

  • "you", "the user", “DTN members” refer to the person(s) using this website.

  • GDPR means General Data Protection Act.

  • PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.

  • ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.

  • Cookies mean small files stored on a user’s computer or device.

Key principles of GDPR:

Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimization, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and/or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases.

  • We are exempt from registration in the ICO Data Protection Register because we handle personal data only for advertising marketing and PR and accounts and record keeping.

  • Lawful basis: Consent
    Where our purpose for processing is: advertising marketing, PR, and accounts record keeping.
    Which is necessary because: it allows us to interact with the client and develop a marketing strategy that is relevant
    We process your information in the following ways: Information is stored on MailChimp and use to contact the user and for marketing.
    Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
    Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.
    If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in detail here;

  • the right to be informed;

  • the right of access;

  • the right to rectification;

  • the right to erasure;

  • the right to restrict processing;

  • the right to data portability;

  • the right to object; and

  • the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device/computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system that allows you to accept the use of cookies and control which cookies are saved to your device/computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

Cookies that we use are:

_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

_client_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

algoliasearch-client-js

  • Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields in Scheduling to help clients complete forms faster.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

AWSALB, AWSALBCORS

  • Improves performance in Scheduling by using one server for the duration of the session.

  • Cookie

  • 1 week

CART

  • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart

  • Cookie

  • 2 weeks

CHECKOUT_WEBSITE

Commerce-checkout-state

  • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

  • sessionstorage

  • Session

Crumb

hasCart

  • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart

  • Cookie

  • 2 weeks

Locked

  • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

  • Cookie

  • Session

PHPSESSID

  • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling.

  • Cookie

  • 1 month

RecentRedirect

  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

remember_client

  • Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account.

  • Cookie

  • 365 days

siteUserCrumb

SiteUserInfo

SiteUserSecureAuthToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account

  • Cookie

  • 3 years

Squarespace-announcement-bar

  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

Squarespace-likes

  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

Squarespace-popup-overlay

  • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

ss_cookieAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to place Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

  • Cookie

  • 30 days

ss_sd

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

  • Cookie

  • Session

TZ

  • Allows Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access, and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions

Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense, eBay Partner Network, Amazon Affiliates, or are self-served through our own means. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen/displayed by our advertising partners. Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalization and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as 'non-personalized cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

Clickable sponsored or affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL like this; www.soswestwales.com or as a titled text link like this: Storage in Pembrokeshire.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases, we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.

If you have any concerns about this we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the "Processing of your personal data" above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third-party service provider of software/applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations, will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences, you can also unsubscribe from all email lists, by following this link, otherwise, contact the EMS provider.

Our EMS provider is MailChimp. We hold the following information about you within our EMS system;

  • Full name

  • Email address

  • I.P address

  • Subscription time & date

  • Phone if you provided it

Resources & further information

Privacy Notice Policy Base: v.4.1 Dec 2018 - Made available without liability by Jamie King, Website management services.