Who we are
Our website address is: http://simplelivingguide.co.uk
The Simple Living Guide – London, UK
Owner contact email: info@simplelivingguide.co.uk
Privacy policy
Your data and privacy are important to us and treated with the utmost care and respect. We don’t collect data that is not absolutely necessary for ongoing operations.
Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle data.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, to comply with the most recent legal requirements and regulations.
Please contact us any time at info@simplelivingguide.co.uk if you have any questions regarding our data collection and privacy policies.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Like most websites, The Simple Living Guide collects personal data of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site and the date and time of each visitor request. We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Our purpose in collecting your personal data is to better understand how our visitors use our website.
If you subscribe to The Simple Living Guide newsletter, we collect your name and email address. This data is stored on the MailChimp servers in the USA. MailChimp, as our newsletter sending service provider, uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of my newsletters or sending us an email at info@simplelivingguide.co.uk
We will never rent or sell your above personal data to anyone and we handle it according to the relevant laws and regulations.
Various data, like IP address and usage data, may be collected through third parties (e.g. Google Analytics, SPAM protection, social media widgets etc.). Please consult their respective privacy policies to get information on how they handle your data.
When do we collect your information?
We collect information from you automatically when you visit our site or make an action, like share a post or post a comment. We collect your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter. Some information is not mandatory and users are free to not communicate this data without consequences to the availability or functioning of the service. If you are uncertain about which personal data is mandatory, you are welcome to contact us.
Cookies
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information, like usage data and behavior.
They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide service information to the owners of the site. Please note that cookies are not spyware or viruses and they can’t read information from your computer.
We use session cookies, persistent cookies, and third-party cookies on The Simple Living Guide in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Session cookies are temporary files, which will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies are used to recognize you when you visit the site or track your preferences and behaviors. They will remain on your computer until you manually delete them (by clearing browsing data, history, cookies, and site data) or until they reach a specified expiry data (for example, in case of affiliate links tracking cookies typically expire after 24 hours or 90 days). Tracking cookies used in affiliate links are persistent cookies.
Third party cookies are created by trusted third-party services and websites other than The Simple Living Guide to collect and track various data. For example, the Google Analytics cookies placed on this website are third party cookies, which measure how many website visitors we receive and how they use the site.
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.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings (look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies).
If you turn cookies off, it won’t affect the user experience.
Sharing your data
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal data unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, sending our newsletter, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information strictly confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect others’ or our rights, property or safety. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. Similarly, we often may post links to other websites of interest. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies that we do not have any control over. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites, so please consult their respective privacy policy and data collection practices when you visit their site. We seek to protect the integrity of our site, so we welcome any feedback about these sites.
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.
How long we retain your data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as it’s necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Contact us and gaining access to your personal data
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
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you’d like to know more about our data collection practices, or you’d like to get access to or erase the personal data we collected about you, please contact us through email: