1. Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed under the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

1.1 What is personally identifiable information?

Personally Identifiable Information refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.

1.2 How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?

We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors in response to specific inquiries or to provide requested information.

By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information under this policy.

2. Information Collection And Use

  • Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
  • We will collect and use of personal information solely to fulfil those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
  • We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
  • Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
  • We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:

  • Name
  • Email address

3. Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

4. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.

5. What Are Scripts?

A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

6. What Is A Web Beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

7. Cookies

7.1 Cookies Used on the Site

Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the services they select. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using https://www.palomastone.com, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

7.2 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to enter the same information when visiting our website repeatedly. We may place these cookies without your consent.

7.3 Analytical cookies

We use analytical cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.

7.4 Social media buttons

On our website we have included buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Pinterest to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Pinterest. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Pinterest themselves. This code places cookies.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Pinterest are located in the United States.

8. Cookies Used By Our Service Providers

8.1 What organisations are collecting the information?

We may use the following third-party service providers named below to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

  • Enfold for content creation
  • Google Analytics for website statistics
  • WordFence for website security
  • Facebook for the display of social share buttons
  • Twitter for the display of social share buttons
  • LinkedIn for the display of social share buttons
  • Mailchimp for email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers
  • Zoho for email service
  • Dreamhost, for website hosting

Our privacy policy does not cover their collection or use of this information.

9. 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 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.

10. Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

11. Consent To Us Using Cookies

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “OK”, you consent to us using the cookies and plug-ins, as described in this Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

12. Enabling/Disabling And Deleting Cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you revisit our website.

13. Security

13.1 How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?

Personally Identifiable Information collected by palomastone is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of palomastone except for use as indicated above.

13.2 How does the Site keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?

While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorised Customers for any such occurrences.

14. Compliance With Laws

We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorised Customers.

15. Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

16. Your Rights Over Your Data

For users on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can request to 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.

If you have an account on this site, 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, deactivate, update or correct inaccuracies on any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor’s entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.

17. Contact details

To exercise your rights with respect to your personal data, or for questions and/or comments about our Privacy Policy and this statement, please contact us.