Privacy & Cookies

Collection of your Personal Information, and Information about your Visit

The Ecology Consultancy collects both personally identifiable information and anonymous usage information when you visit the The Ecology Consultancy website.

The personally identifiable information may include your e-mail address, name, home and/or work address and/or telephone number. This information is collected when you make an enquiry. This information may be used to contact you.

The anonymous usage information, which is not unique to you, may include demographic information (such as your approximate geographical location) and information about your computer hardware and software (your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring website addresses). This information is used by The Ecology Consultancy for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the The Ecology Consultancy website.

The Ecology Consultancy encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from The Ecology Consultancy so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Ecology Consultancy is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the The Ecology Consultancy and The Ecology Consultancy family of websites or the use of your information by such outside websites.

Use of your Personal Information

The Ecology Consultancy collects and uses your personal information to operate the The Ecology Consultancy website and deliver the services you have requested. The Ecology Consultancy may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Ecology Consultancy and its affiliates. The Ecology Consultancy may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services.

The Ecology Consultancy does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The Ecology Consultancy may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, The Ecology Consultancy may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. Such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Ecology Consultancy, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The Ecology Consultancy does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

The Ecology Consultancy keeps track of the webpages you visit within The Ecology Consultancy, in order to determine what The Ecology Consultancy services are the most popular.

The Ecology Consultancy websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on The Ecology Consultancy or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Ecology Consultancy (including enforcing this agreement); and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Ecology Consultancy, or the public.

Cookie Policy

The Ecology Consultancy uses “cookies” to make parts of our website work and to collect data that helps us understand our visitors better. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by our web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.

We use cookies because we want to make our website user-friendly, and we are interested in anonymous user behavior. Our cookies don’t store sensitive or personally identifiable information such as your name or address.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully use the The Ecology Consultancy website.

Here is a list of the main types of cookies we use, and what we use them for. We have described them using the categories recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce in the ICC UK Cookie Guide.

Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing the secure area of the website, accessing the forum, or commenting on our blog posts. Without these cookies the services you have asked for cannot be provided.

WordPress The Ecology Consultancy uses software called WordPress to run the site. WordPress cookies can be easily identified because they contain ‘wordpress’ or ‘wp’ in the cookie name. These cookies are only used between your computer and the The Ecology Consultancy website, contain no personal information, and cannot be used by any other website.

Performance Cookies These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, how they move around the website, and if they get error messages from web pages.

The Ecology Consultancy uses Google Analytics (like many companies) to help us monitor our website traffic. These analytics cookies do not collect information that identifies an individual visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous and does not affect your privacy.

By using The Ecology Consultancy’s website you agree we may place these types of cookies on your device.

Google Analytics Google collects anonymous usage statistics about visitors to The Ecology Consultancy website to assist The Ecology Consultancy in better understanding their website visitors. All Google Analytics cookies names start with ‘__ut…’

Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States and other countries. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

By using The Ecology Consultancy’s website you consent to the processing of data about your visit by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

More details about the analytics cookies, and how to reject or delete them: www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.

Targeting or advertising cookies The The Ecology Consultancy website does not carry advertising, and does not use targeting or advertising cookies.

If you provide The Ecology Consultancy with user information, you have the following rights with respect to that information:

  • To review the user information that you have supplied to us
  • To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us
  • To request that your user information not be used to contact you
  • To request that your user information be removed from any solicitation list that we use
  • To request that your user information be deleted from our records and
  • To opt out of being solicited by this website or third parties

If you request that your user information be deleted from our records, there may be a brief delay in our processing that request, while verify that the request is valid and originates from you as opposed to an unauthorized third party. If you request that your information be deleted, we reserve the right to terminate and/or limit your access to the The Ecology Consultancy website.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at enquiries@ecologyconsultancy.co.uk.

3rd Party Cookies and Social Networks

If you click on a hyperlink from The Ecology Consultancy’s website to any third party websites, share content on a social network, or arrive at The Ecology Consultancy’s website from a social network (e.g. if you ‘share’ content with or arrive from LinkedIn or Twitter) you may be sent cookies from these third party websites. Third party websites will have their own privacy and cookie policies which The Ecology Consultancy cannot control. Please check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

Security of your Personal Information

No method of safeguarding information is 100% secure. The Ecology Consultancy uses a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The Ecology Consultancy secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

The Ecology Consultancy will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The Ecology Consultancy encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how The Ecology Consultancy is protecting your information. When such a change is made, we will update the “Last Updated” date above.

Enforcement of this Privacy Statement

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact us at enquiries@ecologyconsultancy.co.uk. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or we have not addressed your inquiry to your satisfaction, you should then contact us at enquiries@ecologyconsultancy.co.uk.

Contact Information

The Ecology Consultancy welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Ecology Consultancy has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Ecology Consultancy at enquiries@ecologyconsultancy.co.uk. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

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