Who Are Londons Pubs

We are just a couple of normal guys who like drinking beer and decided to write a blog about our adventures in finding a good pint in London,

Our website address is: https://londonspubs.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Contact Forms

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

Who we share your data with

We utilise Google Analytics and Google Search Console and we’ve linked to their Privacy Policy for your convenience.

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 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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated third party spam detection service.

Your Contact Information

Any information that you enter into our contact forms is not held by us unless you are specifically joining our mailing list for our regular updates. Should you join our mailing list you will remain on the list until such a time as you unsubscribe.

Additional information

How we protect your data and what data breach procedures we have in place

We use iThemes Security and Antispam Bee plugins on our WordPress website to secure our information and your information. Regular backups are made by our hosting provider (Go Daddy) and you can view their privacy policy here. Go Daddy has its own proprietary virus and malware scanning software specifically designed to ward of hackers, bots and similar threats to the security of our website.

Third parties we receive data from

Much like data is shared with Google for analytical purposes so does Google share information with our website. We also may sometimes utilise third-party companies to run promotions for Londons Pubs from time to time and all your information (eg Facebook) collected from those companies will be strictly bound by each companies strict privacy, conduct and security policies.

Please Note: We are participants in the Amazon Associates Services LLC Associates Program.
This means we are an affiliate in the Amazon program. As an affiliate, we earn from qualified purchases via links we place throughout our website. Purchases through our website cost you, the consumer, no more than if you had found the products directly on Amazon. However any purchases made through our website means we may receive a very small commission from Amazon for referring the sale. We also participate in other affiliate advertising programs to earn advertising revenue by linking to different websites. Amazon will sometimes collect information from you, as a purchaser, and that information is covered by the Amazon Privacy Policy