Who we are
Our website address is: https://thekingsquarter.co.uk.
The King’s Quarter website is your premier guide to the heart of Gloucester’s vibrant shopping and cultural scene. As the central marketing platform for the city, we bring together the best of Gloucester’s retail, dining, and entertainment options. Our key locations include Kings Walk, Kings Square and The Forum, in the bustling city centre.
Gloucester offers a rich blend of history and modern attractions. King’s Walk and Kings Square provide a variety of high street retailers, independent shops, and eateries, perfect for a leisurely shopping day as well as the perfect space for entertaining and activations. The city centre’s four main streets—Northgate, Southgate, Eastgate, and Westgate—form a vibrant hub full of independent stores, markets, and cultural landmarks.
Your Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and the browser user agent string, this is to help us in spam detection and to potentially block posts from unidentified bots or harmful agents intent on disrupting the general public’s enjoyment of our site. We are not attempting to identify you and we cannot gain any other personal details that could potentially be passed on to someone else.
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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. We gain nothing by doing this, it just means that after approval of your comment, the profile picture you uploaded to your Gravatar account is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. We strongly discourage the posting of images where the people in them are identifiable, If the inclusion of these people is essential to the structure of the overall image you wish to upload then we would recommend pixelating any faces or distinguishing marks . We make these recommendations as visitors to the website can easily download and extract any location data still present in images found on websites.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These cookies 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.
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. 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.
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. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Please be aware that 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.
Who we share your data with
We regard the privacy of our visitors as a critical matter of trust in a world where it’s all to easy to have our personal data examined by people and organisations who rally have no right to do so without your express permission. We do not share any personally identifiable information with any third-party under any circumstance. What limited data we do see is anonymised to the extent that it really is just an IP address (which usually changes every time you connect to the internet due to it being dynamically allocated under DHCP) and an unintelligible hash created by your browser which essentially equates to an ID number with a 24hr lifespan. We do use these two pieces of data in our statistical traffic analysis (we use Google Analytics) which allow us to calculate things like how many visitors has the site had today, what page was most popular, what article was of most interest, the path your ‘ID number’ took to get to our site, what browser are we most popular on and what device people use to visit us on (browsers use different versions for mobile devices, pads and PC/laptops) etc. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
A password reset is always necessary if you forget it because any password you create is immediately hashed, meaning that it is not stored in plain English anywhere within our website database so we cannot remind you what it was, or give it to anyone else to access your account.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. One of the reasons for this is so that we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Our website administrators can also see and edit that information if you have difficulty doing so.
What rights you have over your data
If you have shared your personal information with us by opening an account on this site, or have left comments using that account, 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 also 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 (for the purposes of this website, this would be the previously mentioned IP address or browser hash.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments are passed through an automated spam detection service before posting. A comment would be marked as spam if it contained any kind of hyperlink, an email address or code (HTML, PHP, Javascript etc). Attempts to circumvent the protective measures may result in the loss of any account and previously assigned account privileges.
If you have any questions regarding any of the above then please use either our Contact page or email us directly on help@thekingsquarter.co.uk .