Privacy Policy - The Natural Wedding Company

This privacy policy sets out how The Natural Wedding Company uses and protects any information you give us, when you use this website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Any personal data we ask you to provide, will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may change this policy by updating this page. Please check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 08/04/2022.

Who we are

We are The Natural Wedding Company, a company providing an online eco wedding directory and inspiration blog.

The Natural Wedding Company is owned and run by Charlotte Rigg.

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 anonymised 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.

Contact forms

There are a number of places on our website where you can use built in contact forms: on our contact page to contact us https://thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk/contact-charlie and on individual business listing pages to directly contact that wedding supplier.

We receive an email copy of all these contact forms, which contain your name (as given) and email address.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and what content is most popular. This helps to ensure that our website is responding to your needs in the best way possible.

By using and browsing The Natural Wedding Company, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with this Policy. If you do not consent, you must turn off cookies or refrain from using the site.

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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Get listed

For businesses completing the ‘Get Listed’ form on our website here https://thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk/advertise/ we require your invoice address for on-going invoicing and accounting records. This is a legal obligation for invoicing.

This data is held by us in email form as it is received by us from the website. It is also held on our Invoicely account which we use for invoicing. Please refer to their compliance with GDPR here https://invoicely.com/help/gdpr.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track visitor behaviour (anonymised – full IP address is NOT stored) to our website. We use this to analyse popular content, website performance, etc – so we can further improve.

Who we share your data with

For businesses who join our directory, we share the appropriate invoicing data with Invoicely, who we use for invoicing. Please refer to their compliance with GDPR here https://invoicely.com/help/gdpr.

Data is accessible by our website development and support service. If you require details please contact us.

We never share or sell any personal data with/to anyone else.

How long we retain your data

We retain data collected across our website for a minimum of 3 years.

What rights you have over your data

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

Blog comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Our contact information

The Natural Wedding Company’s registered address is 3 Greave Road, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 4JN, United Kingdom.

Contact details can be found here: https://thenaturalweddingcompany.co.uk/contact-charlie.

How we protect your data

We actively maintain security software, both on our web servers and work machine. We have also worked closely with our hosting provider in the past to secure our server from attacks.