Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains how londondatespots.com and Automattic process information about the visitors of londondatespots.com in connection with the services we provide to you through londondatespots.com and the services Automattic currently provide or may provide to us through WordPress.com, Jetpack (including WooCommerce Services), IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal.com, and Akismet.

Who’s Who and What This Privacy Notice Covers

Our URL is Londondatespots.com.

Automattic are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, VaultPress, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, and more.

We use a number of tools provided to us by Automattic to create and manage this website. Here’s what they are and what they do:

WordPress.com offers the design, features, and support to bring a website to life
Intense Debate gives us tools to manage comments on our website
Akismet helps keep spam under control by filtering out spam comments
With Jetpack, we may connect this website to features and tools available through WordPress.com and WooCommerce Services
We may use Crowdsignal to create quizzes, surveys, and polls that fit our brand and vision

Visitors to londondatespots.com can read published content and interact through features such as comments, “likes,” and follows.

The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to help site visitors (also referred to as “you” in this Privacy Notice) understand the information Automattic and/or the site owner of londondatespots.com (also referred to as “londondatespots.com”, “we” and “us”) collect about you, how you provide us and/or Automattic with that information and how we and/or Automattic use it.

When any activity by Automattic is described, this is based on information from their own Privacy Notice, which can be found here.

GDPR

Londondatespots.com processes your data in line with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) law. This law sets out how personal data can be collected, stored and used in the EU (including UK). Please see this link for a full explanation of GDPR.

Under GDPR law, you have the right to request the information we hold about you and to request its deletion if you wish.

To make a request, please get in touch using the contact form.

Information Collected About Visitors to Londondatespots.com

We and Automattic collect information about you in a few different ways, including certain information that you provide and some information that this site and Automattic collect automatically.

Information You Provide

Information you provide mostly happens when you type into a text field on this site, such as a comment field or a sign-up form. We may also implement other ways to allow you to provide information directly to us and Automattic.

Here are the most common ways in which you might directly provide information:

Follower and Subscriber Information: When you sign up to follow or subscribe to londondatespots.com using Jetpack or WordPress.com, we and Automattic collect the sign-up information, which typically includes an email address.
Site Comments: When you leave a comment on londondatespots.com, we and Automattic collect that comment, and other information that you provide along with the comment, such as your name and email address.
Crowdsignal Survey Responses: When you complete a poll, quiz, or other type of survey prepared by us via Crowdsignal.com, we and Automattic collect your responses to those surveys, and any other information that we require for a poll/quiz/survey response, like an e-mail address.
Other Information Entered By You: We and Automattic may also collect other information that you enter on londondatespots.com – such as a contact form submission, a search query, or site registration.

Information This Site and Automattic Automatically Collect

This site and Automattic also automatically collect some information about our visitors. We’ve listed examples below:

Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: Automattic collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
Visitor Interactions: We and Automattic collect information about your interactions with londondatespots.com, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by you using WordPress.com or Jetpack.
Location Information: Automattic may determine the approximate location of a your device from the IP address. They collect and use this information to, for example, tally for us how many people visit londondatespots.com from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about Automattic’s Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.
Akismet Commenter Information: This site and Automattic collect information about visitors who comment on londondatespots.com, to enable us to use Automattic’s Akismet anti-spam service. The information they collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address and the comment itself).
Crowdsignal Response Information: If we create a Crowdsignal survey on this site, Automattic collect information about visitors who respond to the survey. The information typically includes IP address, browser type, operating system, user agent, and the web page last visited.
Intense Debate Commenter Information: Automattic collect information about visitors who comment on londondatespots.com. The information that they collect typically includes the IP address and account information on the site, along with the comment itself.
Jetpack Site Activity: Automattic collect visitor activities related to the management of londondatespots.com, such as login attempts/actions and comment submission and management actions. For more information, please see the Jetpack Privacy Center.
Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. We and Automattic use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and site usage, and to deliver targeted ads when ads are enabled for free WordPress.com sites or when ads are enabled on a Site through WordAds or Jetpack Ads (see the “Other Tools” section below for more details). For more information about Automattic’s use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see their Cookie Policy.

Other Information Provided By Us To Automattic

Automattic may also collect any other information that we provide to them about visitors to londondatespots.com. For example, we may upload a directory or other information about site visitors and customers to the “backend” administrative platform for managing the site.

How We And Automattic Use Visitor Information

Automattic use information about site visitors in order to provide their services to us. We may use Automattic’s services to, for example, create and manage londondatespots.com, sell products and services on the site, flag and fight comments from spammers, and collect information through polls, quizzes and other surveys.

In addition to the above, Automattic use some information about site visitors who are also their users, as described in their Privacy Policy.

Automattic may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, they may publish aggregate statistics about the use of their services.

How We And Automattic May Share Visitor Information

We and Automattic may share information collected about site visitors in the limited circumstances spelled out below:

Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: Automattic may disclose site visitor information to their subsidiaries, employees, and individuals who are their independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help them provide their services to their users and their sites, or to process the information on their behalf. They require their subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow Automattic’s Privacy Notice for information about visitors that their share with them.
Third Party Vendors: Automattic may share site visitor information with third party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to Automattic. This group includes vendors that help Automattic provide their services to their users and their sites. Automattic require vendors to agree to Automattic’s privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
Legal Requests: We and Automattic may disclose site visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how Automattic respond to requests for information, please see their Legal Guidelines.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We and Automattic may disclose site visitor information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, its users, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we or Automattic have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we or Automattic may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of Automattic’s business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, site visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, Automattic’s Privacy Notice would continue to apply to site visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with Automattic’s Privacy Notice.
Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public is disclosed publicly. That means that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar). Automattic provide a “firehose” stream of public data (including comments) from sites to provide that data to firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content, but do not have rights to re-publish it publicly. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

How Long We And Automattic Keep Visitor Information

If we and/or Automattic are not legally required to keep it, we and/or Automattic generally discard information about site visitors when no longer needed for the purpose it was collected for, or for which Automattic collect and use it on behalf of their users — those purposes which are described in the “How We And Automattic Use Visitor Information” section above.

For example, Automattic keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to this site — such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system — for approximately 30 days. They retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, investigate issues if something goes wrong on this site.

As another example, when a site visitor views this site, Automattic use their IP address in order to update our Site Stats with information about their visit, like what country they are in. Automattic keep that IP address for approximately 30 days to give them time to calculate our monthly Site Stats and address any issues with those counts.

Other Tools

This site may contain ads from third party ad networks and advertisers, and we may integrate other tools and services (such as Google Analytics and third party plugins).

Ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about visitors’ use of a site and across other websites and online services, such as a visitor’s IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by those companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to visitor interests. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org, and for more information on interest-based ads, including information about how visitors may be able to opt out of having their web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit aboutads.info/choices (US based) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU based).