Privacy policy

Effective date of this policy: 25th May 2018

Last updated: 8th March 2023

Who we are

“We” (Product People Limited) are a limited company registered in England & Wales. Our website address is: https://productpeo.pl.

We provide:

• product management consulting;
• product management coaching and mentoring services;
• product management training;
• product management content authoring; and
• people to speak at product management events.

Our privacy policy is reviewed at regular intervals to ensure it meets the current statutory requirements. This policy covers the website of Product People Limited.

Data protection register

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) with registration number: ZA677955. You can view our registration details.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Website and server logs

When you visit our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site and to diagnose any problems with the website, should they occur.

We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website, except when you tell us who you are so we can contact you or send your our newsletters (see below).

We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally-identifying information from any other source. If we do want to collect personally-identifiable information through our website, we will be up-front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Third-party software

As this site uses Automattic’s WordPress and Jetpack software to administer and display the blog, some information is passed to Automattic depending on the way you use the site. You should also read Automattic’s privacy notice and cookie policy together with the information on this page to see how they apply to your use of this site. Note that this site does not currently use all of Automattic’s available WordPress and Jetpack features, but may do so in the future.

Contact forms

If you fill in and submit a contact form on our website (see below), we will collect some or all of the following information you provide:

• Personal information provided by you, which may include one or more of name, email address and telephone number
• Company name
• Details of your enquiry

We will use this for the purpose of contacting you in response to your enquiry. We will retain the information while we are still responding to your messages.

Should you go on to become our client, we will retain the information while you remain a client, and then for six years after we complete our contracted work and invoicing with you in order to satisfy our reporting obligations to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Contact form bot protection

Contact form interactions are checked by Cloudflare’s Turnstile bot detection service. This is to ensure a human, rather than an automated script (or “bot”), is filling out the form. This services does not send your personal information to any third party. Please read the Cloudflare privacy policy together with the information on this page.

Newsletters

If you provide your name and email address to sign up for one of our newsletters, we will use your details to send you newsletters periodically. You will be given the option to unsubscribe within each newsletter you receive.

Financial data

We neither collect nor store any of your financial data.

This website does not process payments.

Comments

We do not currently accept comments on this website.

If you leave comments on pages or articles on this website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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. Please read the Gravatar service Privacy Policy together with the information on this page. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Comment spam protection

Visitor comments (if any) may be checked through a third-party automated spam detection service. We have currently disabled the service we usually would use (Anti-Spam Bee).

Media

We do not currently accept media uploads from any users, except the WordPress administrators for this website.

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.

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.

What rights you have over your data

Data usage and retention

You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for. This information is provided in this website’s privacy policy (this page).

Access to your data

If you have a WordPress user account on this site, have left comments or have used one of our contact forms, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can contact us to request access to your data.

Correcting your data

You can supplement, correct and delete your data whenever you wish by contacting us.

Deleting your data

You can also revoke your consent for us to have your personal data and request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You can contact us to request the deletion of any information we hold about you.

How long we retain your data

Emails

If you send us an email, we will retain it for seven years to comply with HM Revenue and Customs recommendations on record retention.

Comments

We do not currently accept comments on this website.

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.

Newsletters

If you provide your name and email address to sign up for one of our newsletters, we will retain it while you continue to subscribe. When you unsubscribe, we will delete your name and email address.

WordPress user registrations

We do not currently accept WordPress user registrations for this website.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their WordPress user profile while they remain an active user. 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.

Cookies

This website may use cookies to store information about you within your own web browser, specifically whether you are logged in to WordPress, your site preferences if you’re logged in, and to follow which pages you have viewed.

The cookies set will identify you uniquely, but not in a way that exposes any of your personally-identifiable information. Your web browser shares the information in your cookies with this website.

It is entirely your choice whether you consent to share this information.

• If you don’t consent, go to your browser settings, clear your cookies and choose not to accept any others. Note that this will lose your site preferences and may affect how this and other websites work.
• If you do consent, accept cookies and continue browsing. You don’t need to do anything further.

Cookie consent

Thie website uses a cookie to store your preference for the usage of all other cookies in use on this website.

Cookie name(s):

cookie_notice_accepted

Purpose:

Stores your consent choice for cookie usage on this website.

Duration:

cookie_notice_accepted : 1 month

WordPress and Jetpack

As this site uses Automattic’s WordPress and Jetpack software to administer and display the blog, some information is passed to Automattic depending on the way you use the site. You should also read Automattic’s privacy notice and cookie policy together with the information on this page to see how they apply to your use of this site. Note that this site does not currently use all of Automattic’s available WordPress and Jetpack features, but may do so in the future.

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.

Cookie name(s):

wordpress_[letters and numbers]
wordpress_logged_in_[letters and numbers]
wp-settings-[UID]
wp-settings-time-[UID]

Purpose:

Applicable only to users with logins for this site, not ordinary browsing.

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.

WordPress uses the wordpress_[letters and numbers] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the admin console area, /wp-admin/.

After login, WordPress sets the wordpress_logged_in_[letters and numbers] cookie, which indicates when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use.

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.

WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

Duration:

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.

Login cookies : 2 days (2 weeks if you select “Remember Me”)
Login cookies are removed when you log out
Screen options cookies : 1 year
Post editing cookie : 1 day
wp-settings-time-[UID] : 1 year
wp-settings-[UID] : persistent (clear your browser cookies to delete)

Changes to this policy

Product People Limited reserves the right to change this policy from time to time to remain in keeping with applicable privacy laws. When we do change it, we will make a copy of the updated Privacy Policy available on this page. In the case of material changes to the policy, we will provide you with an opportunity to review and opt-out before the new policy comes into effect.