Who We Are

Our website, Hills Training, is accessible at: https://www.hillssafetytraining.com. We are committed to providing high-quality training services while respecting your privacy.

Comments

When you leave comments on Hills Training, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. Should you use a Gravatar, an anonymized string from your email address (hash) may be used to verify your use of the service. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is accessible here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.

Media

If you upload images to Hills Training, please refrain from including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you comment on our site, you have the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t need to refill your details for future comments. These cookies last one year.

Upon visiting our login page, a temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies, containing no personal data and discarded upon closing your browser. If you log in, we’ll set cookies to save your login info and screen display choices, with login cookies lasting two days and screen option cookies for a year. Choosing “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

Editing or publishing an article sets an additional cookie in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article you edited, expiring after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on Hills Training might include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content from other websites behaves identically as if you visited the source website directly, which might collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you’re logged in to their website.

Data Sharing

If you initiate a password reset, your IP address will be noted in the reset email.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their profiles. Users can alter or delete their information at any time, except for changing their username. Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments on Hills Training, you can request an exported file of your personal data held by us, including any data you’ve provided. You can also request the erasure of your personal data, which excludes any data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may be scrutinized using an automated spam detection service.