Who We Are

We are MWWebs (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. If you have questions about your personal information, please contact us.

What information we hold about you

The type of data that we collect and process includes; your name or username, email address, and IP address. Further data may be collected if you choose to share it. We collect some or all of this information in the following cases: You register as a member on this site, fill out our contact form, browse this site (see “Cookie policy” below), fill out fields on your profile, register for an event through email.

How your personal information is used

We may use your personal information in the following ways: For the purposes of making you a registered member of our site, in order for you to contribute content to this site. We may use your email address to inform you of activity on our site. Your IP address is recorded when you perform certain actions on our site. Your IP address is never publicly visible.

Other ways we may use your personal information

In addition to notifying you of activity on our site which may be relevant to you, from time to time we may wish to communicate with all members any important information such as newsletters or announcements by email. You can opt-in or opt-out of such emails. We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you in the course of your interaction with our site. This information may include technical information about the browser or type of device you are using. This information will be used purely for the purposes of analytics and tracking the number of visitors to our site.

Keeping your data secure

We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable measures and procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect.

Rights

You have a right to access the personal data we hold about you or obtain a copy of it. To do so please contact us. If you believe that the information we hold for you is incomplete or inaccurate, you may contact us to ask us to complete or correct that information. You also have the right to request the erasure of your personal data (unless there is a specific reason not to). Please contact us if you would like us to remove your personal data. As part of the site rules, you are not permitted to post any PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and we reserve the right to remove any posts containing such information.

Banned accounts and accounts that have services revoked

The GDPR states that we can continue with our retention policy if an account is banned or services have been withdrawn/terminated by MWWebs. This can be any or all of the following data held: Email address, IP address, Personally identifiable photos/images/posts, Personally identifiable information aka PII, Photo verification image. However, as a responsible data controller, we will always be mindful of people’s privacy, whether you have been banned or not. This means we will never release stored PII on any accounts. After being banned or having services withdrawn, the account shall remain in a hidden state and not accessible.

Email opt-in preferences under GDPR

As required by law, our marketing communications will have to change in order to be compliant. You will have the option to opt in to receive marketing emails where we may include offers and sales by third parties in emails. You will not need to amend anything for transactional emails (such as notification emails or mail regarding site messages). MWWebs DOES NOT SELL, lease, or disclose any personal information collected such as your email address and holds this information in the strictest privacy to be used only in the intent that it was disclosed.

Acceptance of this policy

Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy, then please do not use this site. When registering we will further request your explicit acceptance of the privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

We may make changes to this policy at any time. You may be asked to review and re-accept the information in this policy if it changes in the future.

Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files which are set by us on your computer which allow us to provide certain functionality on our site, such as being able to log in, or remembering certain preferences. This page discusses how cookies are used by this site. If you continue to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your web browser at the request of a site you are viewing. This allows the site you are viewing to remember things about you, such as your preferences and history or to keep you logged in. Cookies may be stored on your computer for a short time (such as only while your browser is open) or for an extended period of time, even years. Cookies not set by this site will not be accessible to us.

Our cookie usage

This site uses cookies for numerous things, including registration and maintaining your preferences. This includes ensuring that you can stay logged in and keeping the site in the language or appearance that you requested. Analytics allows us to determine how people are using the site and improve it. Advertising cookies (possibly third-party), if this site displays advertising, where cookies may be set by the advertisers to determine who has viewed an ad or similar things. These cookies may be set by third parties; in which case this site has no ability to read or write these cookies. Other third-party cookies for things such as social media sharing, where cookies will generally be set by the third-party independently, so this site will have no ability to access them.

Standard cookies we set

These are the main cookies we set during normal operation of the software. A session cookie stores the current ID of your session. A user cookie stores a key, unique to you, which allows us to keep you logged in to the software as you navigate from page to page.

Additional cookies and those set by third parties

Additional cookies may be set during the use of the site to remember information as certain actions are being performed, or remembering certain preferences. Other cookies may be set by third party service providers which may provide information such as tracking anonymously which users are visiting the site, or set by content embedded into some pages, such as YouTube or other media service providers.

Removing / disabling cookies

Managing your cookies and cookie preferences must be done from the options/preferences within your browser.

More information about cookies

To learn more about cookies, and find more information about blocking certain types of cookies, please visit the ICO Website Cookies page.