Who we are

Our website address is: https://bluesheets.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Blue Sheets collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Blue Sheets also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Blue Sheets. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Blue Sheets for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Blue Sheets Web site. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Blue Sheets public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

Note: Blue Sheets does not read any of your private online communications. Blue Sheets encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Blue Sheets so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Blue Sheets is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Blue Sheets and Blue Sheets family of Web sites.

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.

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

Should you submit a contact from, your data will be used by us to process your request. Should your submission require processing form a third party (such as a company listed on our website) then your details will be passed to them for the purposes of your initial enquiry only

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.

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

This website uses Google Analytics to record and process visitor information. Please refer to Googles’ privacy policy

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data unless you have specifically requested for us to do so. For example, if you send a company listed on our website a request via our website, then your details will be passed to them for the purposes of your initial enquiry only.

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 may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Our contact email address is [email protected]

Our contact address is:
The Cedars
Vapery Lane
Pirbright
Surrey
GU24 0QD
UK

Additional information

Changes to this Statement

Blue Sheets will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Blue Sheets encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Blue Sheets is protecting your information.