Please read the following information to understand how The Valley House Interiors & Landscape Design Ltd uses and saves any information supplied when you navigate this website. Any information that you supply via this website will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
Who we are
The Valley House Interiors & Landscape Design Ltd is a limited company offering interior design services as well as garden designs. This website also contains a personal blog by Victoria Rumens. All content and opinions are by Victoria Rumens. If different content is used it will be marked with a reference source. All DIY advice given is based on my suggestion & personal experience. I am qualified as an Interior Designer by City & Guilds Certificate, however, I’m not qualified by trade in any form of DIY and cannot be held accountable for any advice deemed as counterfactual.
Therefore Valleyhouseinteriors.com or Victoria Rumens can’t be held responsible for any damage, harm, personal injury, or loss of earnings encountered when choosing to follow any advice given within any of the blog posts featured on this website. If you have issues or are not satisfied with any product that is recommended via this website, it is advised to contact the product manufacturer.
What personal data do we collect and why we collect it
By navigating this site, you are indicating your agreement to the terms of this privacy policy. If you disagree with any of the terms below, please close down valleyhouseinteriors.com.
Valley House Interiors & Landscape Design Ltd reserves the right to alter the terms of this policy at any time. Changes will be notified to you using the e-mail address you provide to me if you have opted in to receive my weekly newsletter. Continued use of this site after receiving this email will indicate your agreement to such changes.
Email subscriptions
Valley House Interiors & Landscape Design Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and will ensure that the information obtained from you and used will always be processed and transferred in compliance with all applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). If signing up to the valleyhouseinteriors.com newsletter, the name given and the email address will be stored in two places:
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On the blog hosted by WordPress.com. We do not process your email further, we do not download it and we do not share it with any third party.
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On the mailing list host Newsletter (WordPress Plugin). I have full access to all data stored there and can enable deletion of a subscriber’s data should they so wish.
Your email address will be used to email you the Valley House Interiors & Landscape Design newsletter, which may contain direct or indirect marketing material such as blog posts on which we have partnered or collaborated with companies in exchange for a fee.
By subscribing to receive the newsletter, you consent to receive this marketing information which forms part of my blog. If you do not wish to receive such marketing information, you should not subscribe to the newsletter or you can unsubscribe at any time via the mail opt-out or by filling out the contact form.
Comments
When 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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Analytics
We collect data through Google Analytics to measure engagement.
Who do we share your data with
We do NOT share your data with anyone.
How long we retain your data
If 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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or 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.
Where do we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Affiliate Links
We sometimes will add affiliate links in our blog posts, in Shop-the-look boards, and in the sustainable product directory. If you click on one of these links it leads you to a website where you can purchase products and we gain a small percentage of your purchase in sale revenue. The data of your purchase is subject to the privacy policy of the linked website and will not be passed on to us.
This policy was updated on 21/10/2022.
