Privacy Policy

loraingutters.com respects your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we protect it, and the rights you have under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Who We Are

loraingutters.com is an educational blog publishing general-interest gutter and drainage articles.
For the purposes of data protection law, the site operator is the data controller for personal data collected here.

Information We Collect

Information you provide voluntarily, such as your name and message in the contact form
Technical information collected automatically, including IP address, browser type, device type, referring pages, and pages viewed
Cookie and analytics data used to understand how the site is used
Any photographs you choose to send us about a gutter problem

Lawful Bases for Processing

Consent: when you submit a form or accept non-essential cookies
Legitimate interests: to operate, secure, and improve the website
Legal obligation: where we must retain or disclose information by law

How We Use Your Information

To respond to messages, corrections, and enquiries
To maintain, secure, and improve the website
To understand which articles are useful to readers
To comply with our legal obligations

We never sell or rent your personal data, and we do not use it for automated decision-making or profiling.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Essential cookies keep the site working properly and cannot be switched off.
Analytics cookies help us understand traffic patterns and are set only with your consent.
You may withdraw consent or clear cookies through your browser settings.

Analytics, Advertising and Sharing

We may use analytics services to measure readership and advertising partners to display ads. These providers may set their own cookies and receive limited technical data such as approximate location and pages visited. We require every provider to protect your data and use it only for the service it supplies.

International Data Transfers

Where a service provider is located outside the European Economic Area, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

Data Retention

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected. Contact form messages are retained for a reasonable period and then deleted.

Your Rights Under the GDPR

Access the personal data we hold about you
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
Request erasure of your personal data
Restrict or object to certain processing
Receive your data in a portable format
Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting prior processing
Lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority

Exercising Your Rights

You can exercise these rights through the contact form. We will respond within the period required by law and may ask you to confirm your identity first.

Security, Children and Changes

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, though no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. This site is not directed at children, and we will delete any data we discover we have collected from them. We may update this policy at any time, and the current version will appear on this page with its revision date.