Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). 

Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.

We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

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.

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.

We use any contact information submitted on the website’s contact forms to submit emails to our staff. This data is only ever used for the purpose of support of website enquiries or to communicate with you whilst delivering our services, it will not be used for marketing 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 (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: 

 – Email address

 – First name and last name

 – Phone number

 – Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

 – Comments posted 

 – IP Address

 – Cookies and Usage Data

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.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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. Our cookie policy can be found here,  Cookie policy. 

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.

We use SiteAnalytics, to learn more about our website’s visitors and how to optimise our website to meet their needs. The information we obtain includes:

– How often and for how long our website is visited;

– Which pages on our website visitors accessed most frequently;

– The pages after which our visitors left our website, exit pages;

– Where our visitors come from, e.g. from search engines or referring pages, pages of origin;

– Which keywords your visitors used to find our website in search engines, keywords;

– Which browsers and browser versions our visitors used;

Note: To protect your personal data, SiteAnalytics does not use cookies. Visitors can be uniquely identified, for example by their IP address and browser strings. The IP address and browser string are saved anonymously so that they cannot be traced back to the individual visitors.

Under the UK Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following data protection rights. 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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Fortima Limited relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam and abuse detection service.

We also use reCAPTCHA v3 to prevent spam and abuse from our website forms. reCAPTCHA v3 never interrupts our users, conversions, but works by understanding the context of interactions with our site, which comes from seeing both legitimate and abusive behaviour.