Who we are

We are Terminal Network Ltd a business registered in the UK and Wales with the Company number 12918588. Our website address is: http://www.terminal-network.com (the “Site”)

We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

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.

Where our services provide the ability for you to login and create a profile, an anonymized 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.

Media

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.

Contact forms

If you fill in one of our Contact Forms to contact us, we will store the email address you supply only for the purposes of contact you to react to your enquiry. Additionally, your text and email will be supplied to our team for such purposes. Additionally, your email may be logged into a Contact Management System to track your enquiry. Your email address will be used for no other purposes and will not be sold/passed to any other organisation without your prior approval.

We utilise reCAPTCHA v3 on our site to prevent spam. Your use of reCAPTCHA v3 is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Cookies

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 visit our login page, 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.

Cookies are also utilised to support the Analytics we retain regarding your use of our website (see Analytics section).

You may opt out of the use of cookies using the banner selection on first entry to our website or by clearing the cookies in your browser and entering our site anew.

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

Analytics

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“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 Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data.

Who we share your data with

We do not independently pass or distribute your information to anyone other than through the processes described above i.e. other third-parties for the delivery of supplemental processes on our website such as comments or Avatars, alongside the sharing of information regarding your use of our website with Google via Google Analytics.

How long we retain your data

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

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can 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.

What rights you have over your data

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. 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

Visitor comments and Contact Form details may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Email addresses supplied via Contact Us will be stored within our Email system and may be transferred to our Contact Management system but only for the use within our company. We will neither sell nor pass on your data to another party without your prior separate written permission.

Our contact information

For any further information please contact:

Scott Christie, Terminal Network Ltd, Oak Lodge, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex. CM77 7QH

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our website runs over an encrypted service (via https://) and requires secure log-in in order to reach our back-end systems. These logins are centrally controlled and only distributed on an as-required basis.

All supplementary systems to which your details may be transferred also require logins provided and managed within our organisation.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of any identified data breach, we will contact the individuals affected by the breach where contact information for such individuals has been provided and additionally, where required by legislation, will inform the appropriate authorities.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive only insights from third-parties such as Google as to your use of our website.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not apply any automated decision making processes or profiling to your data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We are subject to, aware of, and comply with the relevant legislations with the jurisdiction we operate.