PRIVACY POLICY

Website privacy policy for: https://ortho-surgery.uk.

Comments

When website visitors leave comments on the blog, 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.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, it will be visible for others to read. You can state in the comment section if you wish for your comment to not be made visible 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.

This websites analytics provider is Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for two years in order to improve user experience on the website. You can turn cookies off in your browser to stop the website tracking cookies.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Your data

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

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you at any time by contacting us using the details on the contact page. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.