Who we are
Island Echo Ltd. is an independently owned and operatored news website for the Isle of Wight. Our official website address is https://www.islandecho.co.uk. Other URLs include https://www.islandecho.co.uk/directory, https://www.islandecho.co and http://www.iwnews.co.uk.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Newsletter
When you subscribe to our daily newsletter and/or marketing email list, you provide your name and email address. We collect this information to enable us to send you emails. All data is stored by Island Echo and does not transfer to any external individuals or companies, save for Amazon SES which processes the email request.
Your data will never be sold to any third party and you will only receive emails for the lists you have subscribed too. No other data is collected in respect of our newsletter subscription.
Directory
When you submit a listing through the Isle of Wight Directory Listing, we collect details of your business such as trading name, address, telephone number and email address. We also collect billing information so we know where to send an invoice too and account information such as username and password.
We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 5 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
Who on our team has access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us and can access:
- Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
- Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.
All payments are securely processed through Paypal and we do not hold any credit/debit card details or bank account details. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, which includes your name and email address, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised 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
When using any contact form on the website we collect the data shown in the form, which can include your name, email address, contact number and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Who we share your data with
We will never sell your data to a third party.
The systems used by Island Echo may have access to your data including Cloudflare and Amazon SES. We use Paypal to process some payments received and FreeAgent to store financial information.
Cookies
This website uses cookies, which are small files that contain a series of letters and numbers. By continuing to use this website and selecting ‘I give my consent’ on the displayed pop-up, you consent to Island Echo’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this cookies policy.
Cookies are important in delivering a smooth user experience and so that we can shape the website to our reader’s changing needs. We do this via Session Cookies (which are deleted from your computer when you close your browser) and Persistent Cookies (which remain stored on your computer until they are either deleted or expire).
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.
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
In the interests of being open and honest with our readers, here is a list of the cookies used on the Island Echo website by Island Echo and third parties – and a brief description of their purpose. There may be other cookies that are not included in this list.
Cookie | Description | Duration | Type |
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__cfduid | The cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information. | 1 month | Necessary |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. | 5 months | Advertisement |
YSC | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | Performance | |
GPS | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location | 30 minutes | Analytics |
IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | 1 year | Advertisement |
_fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. | 2 months | Advertisement |
fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 2 months | Advertisement |
_ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics |
_gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics |
_gat_gtag_UA_32067684_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. | 1 minute | Analytics |
d | This cookie tracks anonymous information on how visitors use the website. | 2 months | Performance |
mc | This cookie is associated with Quantserve to track anonymously how a user interact with the website. | 1 year | Advertisement |
cref | null | 1 year | Other |
CMID | The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. | 1 year | Advertisement |
CMPS | This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. | 2 months | Advertisement |
i | The purpose of the cookie is not known yet. | 1 year | Other |
KTPCACOOKIE | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com for the purpose of checking if third-party cookies are enabled on the user’s website. | 1 day | Advertisement |
CMPRO | This cookie is set by Casalemedia and is used for targeted advertisement purposes. | 2 months | Advertisement |
CMST | The cookie is set by CasaleMedia. The cookie is used to collect information about the usage behavior for targeted advertising. | 1 day | Advertisement |
KADUSERCOOKIE | The cookie is set by pubmatic.com for identifying the visitors’ website or device from which they visit PubMatic’s partners’ website. | 2 months | Advertisement
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Cookie name | Purpose |
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_cfduid | islandecho.co.uk – Used by the content network Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic |
_ga | islandecho.co.uk – Registers an unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use the website |
_gat | islandecho.co.uk – Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
_gid | islandecho.co.uk – Registers an unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use the website |
d | quantserve.com – Collects anonymous data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content |
activeview | googlesyndication.com – marketing cookie used to track visitors across website to display ads that are relevant and engaging |
dpixel | quantserve.com – Marketing cookie used to track visitors across website to display ads that are relevant and engaging |
DSIS | doubleclick.net – Used by Google Doubleclick for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts |
IDE | doubleclick.net – Used by Google Doubleclick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user |
impression.php# | facebook.com – Used by Faceook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login button |
mc | quantserve.com – Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded. The registered data is used for targeted ads |
r/collect | doubleclick.net – Marketing cookie used to track visitors across website to display ads that are relevant and engaging |
test_cookie | doubleclick.net – Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies |
pixel | fcmatch.youtube.com – Unclassified, used by Youtube |
google_experiment_mod google_pub_config |
islandecho.co.uk – Unclassified, used for Google Adsense |
For more information on how Google collects information visit https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/.
Most browsers allow you to block or refuse to accept cookies, but blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon your experience of the Island Echo website.
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. Find out more at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None.
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).
- Internet Explorer – https://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
- Google Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
- Mozilla Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
- Apple Safari – https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467
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.
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, or submit a Directory Listing, we also store the personal information they provide. 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. (See below).
For newsletters, we retain your data until such a time that you unsubscribe from the newsletter system.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments or have subscribed to our newsletter, 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.
To request information can you, fill in the form below.
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SSL Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Island Echo is now SSL secure as of March 2018.
Contact Information
Island Echo Ltd. can be contacted by telephone on 01983 898288, email on [email protected]. Our registered address is Fortis House, Cothey Way, Ryde, Isle of Wight, PO33 1QT.
Island Echo is published and wholly owned by Island Echo Ltd., whose sole director is local Isle of Wight resident Darren Toogood.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.
This policy is effective as of 16 August 2019 and was updated on 21st August 2024.