Privacy Policy

Orton Farmers’ Market only collects personal data from you if you send it to us – whether you’re a potential stallholder completing our application process or a customer with a query that you send via our Get in touch page.

This privacy policy is mainly about the way other information may be collected and used, relating mainly to how you access and use this website.

  1. The information collected and used

If you use this website, you are in control of what information is collected and you are able to not accept cookies if you prefer.

1a. How information is collected

Information may be collected, stored and used when you use this website or if you call us by phone.

1b. What information is collected

The information collected and held may include but is not limited to:

  1. information about your computer and about your visits to, and use of, the website (including your IP address, approximate geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views);
  2. if you call us, your phone and/or mobile phone number and the time, date and day of the week and length of your call will be collected in our phone; and
  3. any other information you may provide to the provider of this site via a query or application.

1c. Using cookies or other on-device storage

Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. For further information (including how to opt out of cookies) please go to the Cookie Policy below.

  1. How information collected is used

2a. When you use this website

When you use this website, information is collected. It will be used for the purposes set out in this privacy policy and that’s mainly about us seeing how people are using the website so that we can improve it. For instance, we can tell the type of device that website visitors are using, enabling us to adapt it to work well on a smart phone, for instance.

2b. Customisation of this website

The information collected when you use this website may be used to build up a picture of your interests. This information may be used to try to make sure that when you visit or use the website, you don’t miss offers and information that might interest you.

2c. Tracking how the website is used

Information may be collected about activity on the website, or other organisations may be used to collect it and to share it. This information is used to:

  1. analyse statistics;
  2. track pages and paths used by visitors to, or users of, the website;

For these purposes, the information on the path you take to get to the website and on some of the pages you visit or use through the website, using cookies, web beacons and other on-device storage will be retained. For information about web beacons, or the organisation used (including how to decline their cookies), please go to the Cookie Policy below

2d. Analysing call volumes

If you call us using the number featured on the website, we may record your phone number, the time, date, day of the week and length of the call and certain details about whether the call was answered or not. This information may be used to analyse the effectiveness of the website.

  1. Disclosure of your information

In exceptional circumstances, your information may be passed to one or more of the following organisations:

  1. data processing companies, mailing houses and other third party suppliers; and
  2. government and enforcement agencies and the police.

Every now and again, requests are received for information from government departments, the police and other enforcement agencies. If this happens, and there is a proper legal basis for providing your information, it will be provided to the organisation asking for it.

  1. Where your information is processed

When your information is used as described in section 2, this may occasionally involve sending your information outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where this is done, appropriate steps are taken to protect your information. By using this website, you agree that your information may be transferred, stored and processed outside the EEA.

  1. How your information is kept secure

The security of information is taken very seriously. Technology and security policies are in place to protect the information held, whether on our computers, phones or by our suppliers.

  1. How changes to this privacy policy may occur

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may want to check it each time you visit the website if you are at all concerned about how we are storing or using your data.

 

Cookie Policy

What are cookies:

We and our web supplier collect information about your use of our website through cookies. Cookies are information files stored on your computer, tablet or smartphone that help websites remember who you are and information about your visit. Cookies can help to display the information on a website in a way that matches your interests. Most major websites use cookies.

What cookies are used on this Website:

The cookies we and our business partners use on this website are broadly grouped into the following categories:

Essential – Some of the cookies on our website are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. An example of this would be a cookie used to enable you to log into your account on the website or which allows communication between your browser and the website. Our cookie preference cookie described in the section “How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?” is also an essential cookie. You may not be able to use our website without these cookies.

Analytics – We use analytics cookies to helps us understand how users engage with our website. An example is counting the number of different people coming to our website or using a particular feature, rather than the total number of times the site or feature is used. Without this cookie, if you visited the website once each week for three weeks we would count you as three separate users. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our website was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Other categories include Social Sharing content links and Interest-based advertising cookies but we do NOT use these on the Orton Farmers’ Market website.

How can I reject or opt out of receiving cookies?

When you first visited this website, you will have been shown a message bar drawing your attention to the fact that this website uses cookies and inviting you to review this cookie policy to help manage your cookie preferences. If you do not manage your preferences despite this prompt a cookie preference cookie will be dropped confirming that you consent to us using the cookies detailed in this cookie policy. This cookie preference cookie will last for no more than 5 years.