PRIVACY POLICY

WHO WE ARE

Our website address is: https://ashburnbrewery.com. We want you to feel confident while browsing our website and are committed to protect your privacy. We understand that it is important you know how your information will be used when and if at all. This policy will also outline how you yourself can update any personal information whether through online portals or via contact information. Please take a few moments to review our policy in detail.

COMMENTS

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and it is also possible that the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This is all managed through our internal backend system.

MEDIA

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

COOKIES

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, 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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

SHARING DATA

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Contact information is kept in our database for the use of communication purposes only and is not shared with any third parties unless otherwise stated and approved by the user.

HOW LONG WE RETAIN DATA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

CONSENT & DATA COLLECTION

By visiting our website, you agree to the terms of our online policy and to the Ashburn Brewery data collection processes. It should be noted that for our internal purposes, we do gather information such as user behaviour, browser details, demographics etc. as can be found through google analytics. This information does not contain anything that can identify users personally and is more for data analytics collections to help us improve our services. This information is held within the company and is only shared amongst leadership to improve business planning processes.

We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to benefit our cause. This particular collected information may be shared with third parties in order to provide these services or to analyze, store, or aggregate information. It may also be shared with other third parties, working with us to improve the functionality of our website.