Loam & LeafPrivacy Policy
Loam & Leaf values your privacy and handles personal data with transparency and care. This Privacy Policy outlines how Loam & Leaf Publishing Ltd. gathers, stores, and protects your information.
Data Controller
The data controller for this website is Loam & Leaf Publishing Ltd., an entity organized under the laws of the United Kingdom. For inquiries or data protection requests regarding your personal records, please reach out via our contact form.
Legal framework
We manage your records following UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and applicable legislation in United Kingdom. Statutory law takes priority over this text in any conflict.
Data Collected
We collect personal data that you share directly, including your name and email address when submitting inquiries through our contact forms. Our hosting infrastructure also automatically records technical metadata, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and access timestamps. Anonymized behavioral data is also collected through analytics cookies.
Purposes and Legal Basis
We process your personal information to reply to your horticultural inquiries, preserve website stability, safeguard against malicious intrusions, and understand which growing guides interest our audience. The legal foundations for these activities under applicable data protection statutes consist of our legitimate interests in operating an educational gardening publication and your explicit consent when submitting inquiries or accepting analytical cookies.
Storage Period
Inquiry messages submitted through our contact form are stored only as long as necessary to resolve your question, after which they are removed within twenty-four months. Server log files are systematically erased after thirty days. Anonymized statistical records that lack individual identifiers may be preserved indefinitely for historical trend analysis.
Third-Party Services
We share data with reliable third-party service vendors who supply hosting infrastructure, web analytics, and technical maintenance. These providers are bound by strict contractual data-processing agreements that prohibit them from using your personal data for secondary purposes. We never sell, lease, or distribute reader information to commercial list brokers.
Your Rights
Subject to relevant data protection legislation, you hold the right to request access to the personal information we maintain about you, request the correction of inaccurate details, or request the deletion of your personal records. You may also object to or seek restriction of specific processing operations and withdraw your consent at any point. To exercise these rights, submit your request through our contact page.
Questions about this policy
Write to [email protected] or ring +44 114 218 8455 during Mon-Fri 09:30-18:45. We answer all queries within one business day.
- Merchant
- Loam & Leaf Publishing Ltd
- Registered address
- 11 Matilda Street, Sheffield, S1 4QD, United Kingdom
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +44 114 218 8455
- Working hours
- Mon-Fri 09:30-18:45
- Registration
- Company No. 05167865