Who We Are

Welcome to Real Room Designs. Our website address is https://realroomdesigns.co.uk. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your data is handled responsibly.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information displayed in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent details to help detect and prevent spam.

If you use the Gravatar service, an anonymised string (hash) created from your email address may be shared with them to check if you have an account. You can view their privacy policy here. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, please ensure they do not include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to our site can download and extract location information from these images, so take care to protect your privacy.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience on our website:

• Comments: If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
• Login Page: When visiting our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not store personal data and is removed when you close your browser.
• Logged-In Users: Login cookies last two days unless you select “Remember Me,” in which case they persist for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies. Screen options cookies last one year.
• Content Editing: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie is saved to record the post ID. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded Content

Our articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or links from other websites. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the source website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, and include additional tracking. If you are logged into the source website, your interactions with embedded content may be tracked.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Other than this, we do not share your personal data unless it is necessary for legal or administrative purposes.

Data Retention

• Comments: Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely to streamline the approval of follow-up comments.
• Registered Users: If you register on our website, we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can edit or delete your data at any time, except for your username. Website administrators can also access and edit this data.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported copy of the data we hold about you. You can also ask us to erase your personal data, except for information we are legally or administratively required to retain.

Data Security & Spam Detection

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure our site remains safe and user-friendly.

For any privacy-related concerns, please contact us at our contact page.