Privacy & Cookies
The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.
1. Introduction
This policy covers Xanthe Lukes's use of personal information that Xanthe Lukes collects.
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to contact Xanthe Lukes.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Xanthe Lukes to provide you with information you require. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information Xanthe Lukes will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
Xanthe Lukes will not sell your data to other companies, and takes sensible steps to keep all information secure and private.
If you provide the email address of a third party to Xanthe Lukes, we understand that you have permission to use this email address.
This website does not automatically capture or store personal information, other than to ensure that Xanthe Lukes can contact you to take your enquiry further.
Links to other web sites included do not imply any endorsement, validation or responsibility by Xanthe Lukes as to the content or privacy policies of such sites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.
2. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Xanthe Lukes we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use this data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to Xanthe Lukes website will only be used within Xanthe Lukes. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to Xanthe Lukes or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Xanthe Lukes's website, Xanthe Lukes can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as 5 years, then it is archived for 21 years. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.
We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on Xanthe Lukes's website unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional services.
3. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Xanthe Lukes holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £5 for information requests.)
4. Disclaimer
As far as is reasonably possible, Xanthe Lukes will ensure that information provided on this website is accurate. Xanthe Lukes cannot accept any liability whatsoever for omission or error. Equally, as we regularly virus check materials, we cannot accept any responsibility for any disruption of damage that may occur during use of this website.
5. Intellectual property
Users of this site may not print, download or in any manner copy images or text from the site, except for personal, non-commercial use, without permission from Xanthe Lukes.
The users may not use the experience as training to make profit for themselves.
6. How Cookies are used by Xanthe Lukes
Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing data to help us understand how you use our services so we can improve them
Cookies are stored in the computer's memory only during your browsing session and are automatically deleted from your computer when the browser is closed.
These cookies usually store a session ID that is not personally identifiable to users, allowing you to move from page to page without having to log-in repeatedly.
Session cookies are never written on the hard drive and they do not collect any information from your computer. Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and become no longer accessible after the session has been inactive for a specified length of time, usually 20 minutes.
7. Our use of third party Cookies
We do use Google Analytics software to help us improve the usability of our website, the type of information gathered relates to the amount of time spent on the website and the pages visited. No personal information is held.
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, see the link below.
Cookies set by Google Analytics
8. How to opt out of cookies
Our website works better with cookies enabled. Our cookies don't give us or anyone else access to your personal data. We advise you to keep cookies enabled. However, you can choose to reject cookies.
You can use your browser to delete and reject cookies. There are instructions on how to delete cookies and how to control cookies on the 'About Cookies' website.