Cookie Policy

In order to provide you with the full range of Lake Fields services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:

• What information Lake Fields may collect about you
• How Lake Fields will use information we collect about you
• When Lake Fields may use your details to contact you
• Whether Lake Fields will disclose your details to anyone else
• Your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us
• The use of cookies on Lake Fields5 website and how you can reject these cookies.

As set out above, Lake Fields is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information.

The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

What information will Lake Fields collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any Lake Fields website, such as newsletters, competitions, etc… We may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Lake Fields and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
Lake Fields also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

When will Lake Fields contact me?

Lake Fields may contact you:
In relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that Lake Fields can deliver the services to you;
To invite you to participate in surveys about Lake Fields services (participation is always voluntary); and For marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this.
Local pages will give you detailed information about how Lake Fields will contact you in relation to specific services.

Will Lake Fields share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Generally, we will only use your information within Lake Fields. However, sometimes Lake Fields uses third parties to process your information. Lake Fields will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and Lake Fields will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

How long will Lake Fields keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Lake Fields corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long).
Where you contribute to Lake Fields web site Lake Fields will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.

Changes to Lake Fields

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Lake Fields website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

Cookies Policy – Information Lake Fields collects from you

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a “device”) browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of Lake Fields web site features. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to Lake Fields web site the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

How does Lake Fields use cookies?

Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
Lake Fields also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors toLake Fields sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. Lake Fields use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Lake Fields strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes. Certain other areas of Lake Fields web site may use cookies for a specific reason – for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies Lake Fields Set

• Site preferences cookies
  In order to provide you with a great experience on this site Lake Fields provides the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences Lake Fields needs to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences. Third Party Cookies In some special cases Lake Fields also uses cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
  For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.