Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.growthlancashire.co.uk. Growth Lancashire is a business support and economic development company working across Lancashire. For more information, see our full privacy statement.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymised string (hash) derived from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if any) may be publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) as visitors can download and extract this information.
Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To improve user experience and site functionality.
- To remember your preferences when you leave a comment.
- To manage login sessions and screen display preferences.
- To track content editing and publishing activity.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies will last for one year.
Additional cookies may be used if you log in, view pages, or edit/publish content. These include:
- Login cookies (2 days, or 2 weeks if “Remember Me” is selected)
- Screen display preference cookies (1 year)
- Content editing cookies (expire after 1 day)
You may manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings at any time.
For more detailed information on how we use cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited that other site.
These third-party sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content, including tracking interactions if you are logged into those third-party sites.
Who we share your data with
- If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
- Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- Data may be shared with IT and hosting providers strictly for the purposes of maintaining the website and ensuring security.
We do not sell or trade your personal data.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically.
For users who register on our site (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (excluding username changes). Website administrators can also access and manage this information.
Your rights under UK GDPR
You have the following rights over your data:
- Access – You can request to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification – You can request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erasure – You can ask us to delete your personal data, except for data we are required to retain for legal or administrative purposes.
- Restriction – You may request the limitation of data processing under certain conditions.
- Objection – You may object to certain types of processing.
- Portability – You may request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format.
To exercise your rights, please contact us via the details on our main privacy policy page.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be screened using an automated spam detection service, which may be based outside the UK. Appropriate safeguards are applied to protect your data during this process.
Additional Information on Data Processing
Category of Personal Data being processed
- Personal data (information relating to a living, identifiable individual)
- Special category personal data (racial, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation)
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
The legal basis for processing your personal data, in accordance with the UK GDPR is:
(a) Consent: the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose.
Where a client wishes to sign up to receive specific information from the stakeholders, such as a newsletter, consent must be gained, verbal or written. This consent must adhere to UK GDPR rules around consent management.
(f) Legitimate Interests: pursued by the controller or by a third party.
Legitimate Interests would apply where the data subject directly engages with one or more partner for the purposes of delivering a support service to them. Boost understands that any further sharing of personal data is their responsibility as a data controller, and they must identify a clear lawful basis for any onward sharing of personal data.
Retention Periods
We will only store information received from their involvement with you for as long as is legally required or in situations where there is no legal retention period they will follow established best practice. At the end of the retention period electronical data will be deleted and any physical files will be confidentially disposed of.
Contact
If you have any questions about this notice or how we handle your data, please contact us at:
info@growthlancashire.co.uk