Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for worldlandscapearchitect.com (24 May 2018)

worldlandscapearchitect.com known as World Landscape Architecture and WLA (as shall be referred to from herein) respects your privacy and believes in securing your data.
This privacy policy provides information on Cookies, Analytics, Data storage, External links and Data Controller & Breach Notification Procedure. This policy applies to email newsletters, notices, purchases and data storage.

We encourage you to read the policy to under contact WLA at submit@worldlandscapearchitect.com with any questions or concerns about your privacy practices.

worldlandscapearchitect.com known as World Landscape Architecture and WLA (as shall be referred to from herein) respects your privacy and believes in securing your data.
The Data Controller for WLA is Damian Holmes – damian@worldlandscapearchitect.com

Cookies and Analytics

Below is an outline of the information that WLA gathers and how it’s used

Whenever you request a page through your browser, navigation and clickstream data such as:
• your IP address,
• browser and version,
• operating system,
• date and time and
• the site from which you came
are stored in a log file and/or database.

This information is stored on Google Analytics and cannot be used to identify specific individuals, and is only used for:
• Website and system administration,
• research and development,
• anonymous user analysis, and
• to provide accurate statistics to advertisers in the form of aggregated data (e.g. 25% of visitors come from the USA).

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Email Newsletters

The names and email addresses are collected through our subscription form on submitted by users to subscribe to WLA Update and Newsletter subscriptions. This information is not sold, or disclosed to any third parties. These addresses will only be used by our business to send out newsletters, competition notices, surveys, awards notices. The email addresses collected at Worldlandscapearchitect.com are stored with Aweber.com (A GDPR compliant service provider). We only send emails to users who have opted-in to subscribing through the subscription form.

You can remove yourself from our list at any time by sending an email with the subject UNSUBSCRIBE to submit@worldlandscapearchitect.com .  If you unsubscribe we delete your data (name – if provided and email address) from our Aweber.com account.

Purchases
If you have purchased any product from WLA at any time we will have stored you Name, Billing Address (for credit card verification), email and account password in a secure database. You credit card details are randomized and only stored at the payment gateway (Stripe or Paypal).If you have questions regarding our privacy policies, or require assistance in opting out of our email lists, please contact us via email damian@worldlandscapearchitect.com

External Links Disclaimer
WLA contains links to external, third party websites. By providing links to other sites, Worldlandscapearchitect.com does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available at these sites. All links do not indicate any association with the linked site and is not endorsed by the linked site. WLA does not operate or control and has no responsibility for the information, products and/or services found on any external sites. Nor do such links represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any information, products and/or services provided on or through any external sites, including, without limitation, warranties of any kind, either express or implied, warranties of title or non-infringement or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

If any linked websites contained in worldlandscapearchitect.com wish to have the link removed from WLA – please email with the subject ‘REMOVE LINK’ and the page and your link to be removed to submit@worldlandscapearchitect.com

Visitors to worldlandscapearchitect.com assume complete responsibility and risk in their use of any external sites. Visitors should direct any concerns regarding any external link to its site administrator or webmaster.

Data Breach
If we believe that there has been a data breach we will notify you within 48 hours.

If you wish to receive a copy of the data (if you have subscribed to our email newsletter or purchased a product) that we have stored please email an request with the subject DATA REQUEST to submit@worldlandscapearchitect and state your name and email address that you used to subscribe or purchase a product.