Privacy Policy
We respect and value the privacy of everyone that visits our website and only collect and use information in ways that are useful to you and in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This privacy and cookie policy will help you understand how we process any and all data collected by us in relation to your use of our website, and what choices you have.
At Get To Know Animals we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
- It is Get To Know Animals’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
About us
Our website, https://www.gtka.co.uk is owned and operated by Get To Know Animals Ltd, registered in England under number 11347152. Our registered address is: 6 Kings Road, Chingford, London, E4 6EY.
Our data protection officer is Donna Rose who can be contacted at donna@gtka.co.uk
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Get To Know Animals collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Get To Know Animals’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Get To Know Animals’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Get To Know Animals may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Get To Know Animals also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Get To Know Animals only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Get To Know Animals website choose to interact with Get To Know Animals in ways that require Get To Know Animals to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Get To Know Animals gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example those who wish to receive Get To Know Animals updates via email, we collect their email address, First Name and Last Name. In each case, Get To Know Animals collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Get To Know Animals. Get To Know Animals does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Access to your information and correction
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some, or all of your personal information, please email us at info@gtka.co.uk. We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.
Aggregated Statistics
Get To Know Animals may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Get To Know Animals may monitor the most popular pages on the gtka.co.uk site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Get To Know Animals may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Get To Know Animals does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Get To Know Animals discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Get To Know Animals’ behalf or to provide services available at Get To Know Animals’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Get To Know Animals’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Get To Know Animals will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Get To Know Animals discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Get To Know Animals believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Get To Know Animals, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Get To Know Animals website and have supplied your email address, Get To Know Animals may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Get To Know Animals and our products. We primarily use our various website pages and social media platforms to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Get To Know Animals takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. Get To Know Animals uses cookies to help Get To Know Animals identify and track visitors, their usage of Get To Know Animals website, and their website access preferences. Get To Know Animals visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Get To Know Animals’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Get To Know Animals’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Get To Know Animals, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Get To Know Animals goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Get To Know Animals may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Get To Know Animals may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Get To Know Animals’ sole discretion. Get To Know Animals encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
