Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 December 2025

1. Who We Are

Accensia Accountancy (“we”, “our”, or “us”) operates the website https://accensia.co.uk.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at:
info@accensia.co.uk

2. Comments

When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the information shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. Their privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image (if enabled) will be visible alongside your comment.

3. Media Uploads

If you upload images to our website, please ensure they do not contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site may download and extract this information from images.

4. Cookies

Comment Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not need to re-enter your details. These cookies last for one year.

Login Cookies

When visiting the login page, a temporary cookie is set to check whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is removed when you close your browser.

If you log in, cookies will be created to store your login information and screen display preferences:

Login cookies last two days
Screen options cookies last one year
If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks
Logging out removes login cookies

Content Management Cookies

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains only the post ID of the article you edited and expires after one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the originating website.

These websites may:

Collect data about you
Use cookies
Apply third-party tracking
Monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking if you are logged in to their website

6. Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the password reset email for security purposes.

We do not sell or share your personal data with unrelated third parties.

7. How Long We Keep Your Data

Comments:
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to help us recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically.
Registered users:
If you create an account, we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your information at any time (except your username). Site administrators can also access and edit this information.

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

You may request:

A copy of the personal data we hold about you
Correction of inaccurate information
Deletion of your personal data

This excludes any information we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

To make a request, please contact us at [Add your email]

9. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service.