Privacy and Cookie Policy

This Policy explains the Cookies and Privacy Policy of usingjoomla.com

Using Our "Contact" form is only possible by first Registering on Our Site and being logged-in.

Policy Points List

This Privacy And Cookie Policy covers the following points.

• Definitions And Terms
• Privacy
• Your Disclosures To Us
• Collecting And Using Your Personal Information
• Disclosing Personal Information
• International Data Transfers
• Retaining Personal Information
• Security Of Your Personal Information
• Amendments
• Your Rights
• Third Party Websites
• Cookies
• User Profile Review
• Our Details
• California Consumer Privacy Act 2018
• Privacy And Cookie Policy Reviews
• Privacy And Cookie Policy Updates
• Privacy And Cookie Policy Date Of Writing

Definitions And Terms

The following words and phrases have their respective meanings:

'We' 'Us' 'Our': usingjoomla.com (also written as and referred to as: UsingJoomla.com with or without the preceding www).

'You' 'Your': the Website visitor, client of usingjoomla.com (also written as and referred to as: UsingJoomla.com with or without the preceding www).

'Site' 'Our Website': usingjoomla.com (also written as and referred to as: UsingJoomla.com with or without the preceding www).

'Message' 'Submission': this is a message sent (submitted) to Us (by You) via Our Contact Form.

Back to top of page

Privacy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of Our Website visitors; in this policy We explain how We will treat Your personal information.

We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information

• Information about Your computer and about Your visits to and use of this Website (including Your IP address, geographical location, browser type and browser version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths)
• Information that You provide to Us when registering with Our Website (including Your email address and Your name
• Information that You provide when completing Your profile on our website (including Your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth)
• Information that You provide to Us for the purpose of subscribing to Our email notifications and/or newsletters (including Your name and email address)
• Information that You post to Our website for publication on the internet (including Your user name, Your profile pictures and the content of Your posts)
• Information contained in or relating to any communications that You send to Us or send through Our Website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication)
• Any other personal information that You choose to send to Us

Back to top of page

Your Disclosure(s) To Us

Before You disclose to Us the personal information of another person, You must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this Privacy And Cookie Policy.

Back to top of page

Collecting And Using Your Personal Information

Personal information submitted to Us through Our Website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of Our Website.

We may use Your personal information to:

• Administer Our Website and business
• Personalise Our Website for You
• Enable Your use of the services available on Our Website
• Send You email notifications that You have specifically requested
• Deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about You relating to Our Website
• Keep Our Website secure and prevent fraud
• Ensure compliance with Data and Privacy Laws

If You submit personal information for publication on Our Website, We will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence You grant to Us.

We will not, without Your express consent, supply Your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

We collect the following information when You Register on Our Site:

• Your Name
• Your Username
• Your email address
• Your IP address used when you registered
• Your password - though this will NOT be visible to Us so Our human staff / administrator(s) will NEVER know or be able to use Your password

When You have registered on Our Site, Your User Account will be assigned a unique User ID - this ID is system generated;

The date of Registration, as well as whether or not You have agreed / consented to Our Privacy and Cookie Policy is recorded.

When You send us a Message (also referred to as a "Submission") via Our Contact Form, the following details are recorded:

• Your Name
• Your Username
• Your email address
• Your User ID
• Message (Submission) Subject
• Your Message (Submission) Message contents
• The IP Address you used at the time of sending (submitting) your Message (Submission)
• Your Message (Submission) unique ID - this ID is system generated
• The date and time that Your Message (Submission) was sent/submitted

When You are logged in to Our Site you can navigate to the "My Submissions" menu item in the "User Menu" where You can: View, Download in PDF Format, Delete, Export in CSV format selected Messages (Submissions) that You have sent / submitted.

Please note that once a Message (Submission) is deleted it will be permanently and irrevocably deleted from Our Database and Server.

Back to top of page

Disclosing Personal Information

We may disclose Your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose Your personal information to any member of Our group of companies (this means Our subsidiaries, Our ultimate holding company and all their subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy And Cookie Policy.

We may disclose Your personal information:

• To the extent that We are required to do so by law
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
• In order to establish, exercise or defend Our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
• To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that We are (or are contemplating) selling, and
• To any person who We reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in Our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information

Except as provided in this Privacy And Cookie policy, We will not provide Your personal information to third parties.

Back to top of page

International Data Transfers

Information that We collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which We operate in order to enable Us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy And Cookie Policy.

Information that We collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America.

Personal information that You publish on Our Website or submit for publication on Our Website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

Back to top of page

Retaining Personal Information

This Section 6 sets out Our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that We comply with Our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that We process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Without prejudice to Section 6.2, We will usually delete personal data falling within the categories set out below at the date/time set out below:
(a) personal data type will be deleted after 10 years;

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, We will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

• To the extent that We are required to do so by law
• If We believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings, and
• In order to establish, exercise or defend Our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)

In order to maintain minimal data (Data Minimalisation) any Account that has not been accessed (Logged-in to) for a period of 18 months will be deemed Obsolete.

Once deemed Obsolete, Accounts will be scheduled for deletion at any point thereafter without further notice.

Back to top of page

Security Of Your Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of Your personal information.

We will store all the personal information You provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) computers and servers.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and We cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password You use for accessing Our website confidential; We will not ask You for your password (except when You log in to Our Website). None of Our staff and/or website administrators have access to Your or anyone else's password.

Back to top of page

Amendments

We may update this Privacy And Cookie Policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

You should check this page regularly to ensure You are familiar with this Privacy And Cookie Policy.

We may notify You of changes to this Privacy And Cookie Policy by email or through the private messaging system on Our Website or through any Announcements feature placed onto Our website.

Back to top of page

Your Rights

You may view and/or update Your information at any time by logging in to Our website, navigate to the "Account" tab in the mainmenu, and selecting "Edit Profile".

You may export Your Data, by logging in to Our website, navigate to the "Account" tab in the main menu and select "Manage Consents", go to the "Excercise your data rights" box and select the "Export your data" button.

You may delete Your user account ('Right to be forgotten'), by logging in to Our website, navigate to the "Account" tab in the main menu and select "Manage Consents", go to the "Excercise your data rights" box and select the "Delete your user account" button.

When You log-in to Our website for the first time since registering You will be directed to Our Privacy Consent panel / page where You will be required to agree (consent)to Our Privacy And Cookie Policy in order to navigate the registered member-only areas of this website. If You do not agree (consent) or subsequently withdraw Your agreement (Consent) You will not be able to navigate the registered member-only areas of this website.

Note

Deleting Your user account is irreversible. All data will be removed, permanently, irrevocably, forever.

Back to top of page

Third Party Websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the Privacy Policies, Practices and Content of third party websites.

Back to top of page

Cookies

Our Website uses cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that We store about You may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

The names of the cookies that We use on Our Website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

The following Cookies are used on UsingJoomla.com:

• cookiesDirective: this gives Us (and records) your response to the Cookie Notification Bar that appears on Our Website
• DSID (Google advertisement tracking cookie)
• IDE (Google advertisement tracking cookie)
• _gads (Google advertisement tracking cookie)
• Cookies such as: f2839792814faedf3de045f298b567fb is a session cookie used by our Content Management System - such a cookie changes with different users / visitors
• _gat_gtag_UA_115502491_1:"1" (Cookie used by Google Analytics to distinguish between users and throttle request rate)
• _ga (Cookie used by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users)
• _gid (Cookie is used by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users)

Most browsers allow You to refuse to accept cookies - for example:

• Internet Explorer: You can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced"
• Firefox: You can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"
• Chrome: You can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

If You block cookies, You will not be able to use all the features on Our Website.

You can delete cookies already stored on Your computer; for example:

• Internet Explorer: You must manually delete cookie files (You can find instructions for doing so at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835)
• Firefox: You can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies".
• Chrome: You can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data"

Deleting cookies can have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, such as those that use shopping carts for example.

At anytime, You can change your preference of Accepting or Declining cookies on this website by selecting the Cookie Manager Icon near the bottom-right of all pages on this website.

Back to top of page

User Profile Review

In order to comply with GDPR - General Data Protection Regulations, We need to ensure that You have the right to withdraw Your Agreement (Consent) to this Privacy And Cookie Policy.Our Privacy And Cookie Policy.

In order to achieve this requirement, whenever You log-in to Our website You will be directed to Your 'Data Consents' panel / page. You can also return to the 'Data Consents' panel / page when logged-in (and having previously accepted / consented) by when logged-in navigating to the 'Account' tab in the mainmenu and selecting 'Data Consents'.

If You wish to review Your profile, when logged-in to Our website, navigate to the 'Account' tab in the mainmenu and selecting 'Your Profile'.

If You wish to edit Your profile, when logged-in to Our website, navigate to the 'Account' tab in the mainmenu and selecting 'Edit Profile'.

Where / when a User Account has not been accessed for at least 12 months it will be considered dormant / obsolete and may be deleted, along with all of the data, by Us without further notice.

Back to top of page

Our Details

This Website is owned and operated by T Austin.

Our principal place of operation is in Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.

You can contact Us by using Our Website contact form after You have registered on Our Site and Logged-in, selecting the 'Account' tab in the mainmenu, and then selecting 'Contact UsingJoomla'.

Back to top of page

California Consumer Privacy Act (2018)

Here at usingjoomla.com we acknowledge the existance and principles of the California Consumer Privacy Act (1981).

On that basis We have a separate article California Consumer Privacy Act 1981

Here We provide a summary of Our process in ragards to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

The table below tells you Yes or No as to whether usingjoomla.com does the following

Back to top of page

Privacy And Cookie Policy Reviews

This Privacy And Cookie Policy will be reviewed regularly to ensure it remains reflective of current activities.

A review does not neccessarily mean any changes have occurred.

If changes take place the date of the changes will be mentioned in the next section of this Privacy And Cookie Policy.

This Privacy And Cookie Policy was last reviewed on: 16^th January 2023.

Back to top of page

Privacy And Cookie Policy Updates

This Privacy And Cookie Policy may be updated at any time.

This Privacy And Cookie Policy was last updated on: 15^th January 2022.

Back to top of page

Privacy And Cookie Policy Date Of Writing

This Privacy And Cookie Policy was first written on 2^nd May 2018.

Back to top of page