Last Updated: May 21, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to TheGreatLiving.net (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Purpose of This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy aims to give you information on how TheGreatLiving.net collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our newsletter, leave comments, or engage with our content.
TheGreatLiving.net is not intended for children under 16 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Contact Details
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@thegreatliving.net
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data includes email address.
- Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions
You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Leave comments on our blog posts
- Submit a contact form
- Request marketing to be sent to you
Automated technologies or interactions
As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources
We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:
- Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google
- Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
- Where we need to comply with a legal obligation
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data:
- To register you as a subscriber to our newsletter
- To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
- To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
- To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above:
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers
- Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others (such as Google AdSense)
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
6. International Transfers
Some of our external third parties are based outside your country of residence so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data internationally.
Whenever we transfer your personal data internationally, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring appropriate safeguards are implemented.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of your personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request transfer of your personal data
- Right to withdraw consent
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at privacy@thegreatliving.net.
10. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this privacy policy.
12. Third-Party Links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
13. Google Analytics and AdSense
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website.
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. AdSense uses cookies to improve advertising experience. You can decide to opt out of personalized ads by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.
By using TheGreatLiving.net, you acknowledge that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy.