At The Mature Life we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and what choices you have. It relates to all our business activities, not just this website.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act (the Act), or relevant superseding legal regulation, the data controller is Colourboard Designs Ltd (trading as The Mature Life).
By using our services, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to info@thematurelife.com
This Policy was last updated in June 2022.
Who We Are
We are The Mature Life – company details: Colourboard Designs Ltd, (trading as The Mature Life).
Company Registration no. 03951960
Colourboard Designs Ltd is registered at: The Old Carriage Works, Moresk Road, Truro TR1 1DG.
Our office postal address is: Colourboard Designs Ltd, 30 Ferris Town, Truro TR1 3JJ
Colourboard Designs Ltd acts as a data controller in respect of the personal information that we process about you.
If you have any questions about what’s in the policy you can email us at info@thematurelife.com If you no longer want to receive communications from The Mature Life please contact us at info@thematurelife.com
Our website address is: https://thematurelife.com.
How We Collect Information About You
At The Mature Life we don’t process payments which means that any personal data primarily relates to your comments on our blog and any information you provide when signing up for our newsletter.
We also use of Cookies – please see our Cookie Policy for further information
Sensitive Data
We try to avoid processing ‘sensitive’ information, which includes things like your ethnic background, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, trade union membership details or health and biometric data, and we would prefer it if you didn’t supply us with this data accidentally.
Children’s Information
Our services are not directed to children under 13. If you learn that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without consent, please contact us.
Third Parties
We will never sell or rent your personal data to a third party and we won’t give your personal information to external companies for their own marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
Public Comments
Please be aware than any content that you post on The Mature Life is public and can be viewed by anyone who accesses our website.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
If we receive a complaint, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, related to the content that you have posted on The Mature Life website, we may be required to share your personal data with the copyright holder.
Who Has Access to the Data That We Collect About You?
The Mature Life controls the data that you provide. However, we use 3rd parties to assist with our data processing. Following is a list of the partners that process some or all of the data that you provide to The Mature Life
Newsletter sign-up:
- Mailerlite
These 3rd party data processors are only allowed to use your data for the purposes that we designate.
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.
Newsletter: Until you ask us to remove you from our newsletter list.
If your data is needed due to a legal case, we reserve the right to keep it until the situation is resolved.
Controlling Your Information
You have certain rights concerning the information we hold about you, as defined under the General Data Protection Regulation. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us at info@thematurelife.com letting us know your email address in the first instance (this is the unique identifier we use to identify and collate personal information).
REQUESTING A COPY OF YOUR INFORMATION
You may request a copy of any data we hold about you. Upon request, we will provide a CSV file (which you may open in a program such as Microsoft Excel) containing the personal data we hold on record about you.
UPDATING OR CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us so we may correct our records.
DELETING YOUR INFORMATION
You have the right to request erasure of your personal information. Unless there is a compelling reason for the data not to be erased (for example, if we need to use that data to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations), your personal data will be deleted on request.
Users have the ability to leave comments on our blog. To maintain flow of conversation, blog comments will not normally be deleted (unless there is a compelling reason to do so), but all personally identifying information will be removed.
Use of ‘Cookies’
Like many other websites, The Mature Life website uses cookies. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.
The cookies we use are primarily ‘1st party’ cookies although we reserve the option to use 3rd Party cookies to be used by third party advertisers. Please read our full Cookie Police below.
• Google Analytics: 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.
• WordPress Comments: When you leave a comment on our blog, three cookies are set to store your name, email address and website. This is so that if you wish to leave another comment, you won’t have to re-type this information.
By using and browsing The Mature Life website, 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. Most browsers allow you to turn off cookies. To do this, look at the ‘help’ menu on your browser. Switching off cookies should not noticeably restrict your use of this website.
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.
Security
The Mature Life takes security seriously. In order to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. These steps include the following:
• Data minimisation
• Password best practice
• Security best practice concerning devices (PCs, laptops, mobile devices), online accounts, website hosting, physical access and storage
• Staff training and accountability on data protection
A copy of our internal Data Security Policy is available on request.
Visitor Rights
Our EU visitors have specific rights with regards to how their data is used. However, we will honour these rights for all visitors to our website, regardless of where they live.
Your rights include:
- The right to be informed: This privacy policy informs you of your rights.
- The right of access: We will let you know what data you have about you if you ask.
- The right to rectification: We will fix any mistakes regarding your data.
- The right to erasure: We will honour your request to erase your data.
- The right to restrict processing: You can ask us to restrict how your data is processed.
- The right to data portability: We will give you a copy of your personal data if you ask.
- The right to object: You can object to how we use your data.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
How to Withdraw Your Consent
Regardless of the initial reason that you had for giving us your personal data, you can withdraw your consent at any time. To do this, you can click on the “unsubscribe” link in our email communications.
Data Breaches
Our Data Security Policy includes a clear process for handling a personal data breach, should one occur. In the rare event of this taking place, The Mature Life will promptly notify you of any unauthorized access to your personal information.
Complaints
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal information, you can contact us directly and we will investigate the matter.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal information in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
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.
Cookies
We want to create the best possible web experience for you when you visit The Mature Life. To do this we use a variety of technologies to understand how you use our site and find ways to improve and customise your online experience. Like many websites, one of the ways we do this is through the use of small files called ‘cookies’ to store information on your computer. By visiting our site you agree to our use of cookies and other similar technologies.
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.
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.
