Privacy Policy | Beth Griffiths

Introduction

I take your privacy and confidentiality very seriously and am committed to protecting it in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit https://bethgriffiths.co.uk/ (the “Website”).

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using this website. By using this website, you indicate your consent to the use of your personal information as described in the Privacy Policy.

I may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and encourage you to review this Policy periodically to keep up with any amendments.

Information Collection - What Information Do You Collect?

Information You Provide

At times I may request that you voluntarily supply personal information that can be used to contact or identify you. Generally this information is requested when you want us to provide you with information and is collected directly from you when you provide it to me. I may gather the following information about you when you use this website:

Name and surname
Email address
Phone number
Payment/transaction details
Business address
Company name

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, certain information about your device is collected automatically. This automatically-collected information is known as “Usage Data” or “Log Data”. This may include technical information such as your web browser, Internet protocol (IP) address, time zone, browser type, browser version, and operating system type. Additionally, as you browse the website, information is automatically collected about your visit and how you use the website, including the web pages you visit, date and time of visit, what websites or search terms referred you to the website, the time spent on those pages, time since last visit, links you click, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data about how you interact with the website.

Use Of Information - How Do You Use My Personal Information?

Legal Basis for Processing

Under the GDPR, I must always have a valid lawful basis for using personal information. This may be because the information is necessary to fulfil a contract I have with you, because you have consented to my use of your personal information, or because it is in my legitimate interests to use it.

Your personal information may be used for one of the following purposes:

To provide services to you
To provide you with information that you have requested
To communicate with you by responding to enquiries and specific queries you may raise
To improve my services
To optimise my website and deliver the best online experience by personalising your visit to the website.
To notify you about changes to my website and updates to services that may affect you.
To protect my website and systems against unauthorised access and fraud
For market research and aggregated statistical analysis
For marketing, advertising and promotional purposes
With your consent, to send marketing emails which may include information about my services, news, or other information which may be of interest to you.
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

Disclosures - Sharing Personal Information

I do not sell your personal information. I may share your personal information with third parties only as described in this privacy policy, including:

I may share your personal information when required to do so by law in order to comply with any legal obligation. I may share your information to comply with any law, court order, lawful request, legal proceeding, or the instructions of a government authority. I may share information to protect the rights, property, or safety of my company, customers or others and in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual unlawful activities.

I may share your information with service providers, sub-contractors, or other third parties I use to facilitate my service, to provide the service on my behalf, to perform service-related services, or to assist me in analysing how my service is used. This includes but is not limited to payment processors, analytics providers such as Google Analytics, advertising providers such as Adwords, hosting providers such as Wix, and marketing automation providers such as MailChimp. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these services on my behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

I may disclose personal information with a third party in the event of any reorganization, restructuring, merger, dissolution, sale, acquisition, business deal, joint venture, new ownership or other sale or transfer of all or any portion of my business or assets. If a change happens to my business, then the new owners may use your personal information in the same way as set out in this privacy policy. If this were ever the case you would be contacted to confirm that you are happy with this.

I may share your personal information for any other purpose, with your consent.

I will always ensure that any third parties with whom I share your personal information are subject to privacy and security obligations consistent with this privacy policy and applicable laws and that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights.

If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA (European Economic Area), I will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the GDPR.

This website uses cookies. I may use information obtained from cookies or similar technology.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small data file containing a unique identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored on your device by the browser when you visit a website. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

I use cookies to optimise and improve the website and provide you with a more tailored and personal experience when you browse the website.

Types of Cookies Used

I use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary

I may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of my sites, services and applications and are required to identify irregular site behaviour, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. If you block these cookies, the website will not operate properly.

Performance

I use these cookies to collect information that helps to analyse the use and performance of my website. For instance, these cookies help me to understand how visitors navigate around the website, which pages users go to most often, and determine if they have interacted with my messaging. All information these cookies collect is anonymous. They are only used to improve how the website works.

Functionality

I may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that offer enhanced functionality when accessing or using my site. This may include remembering your specified preferences and choices so that I may provide more personal features and enhanced content on my site. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity to other websites.

Marketing/Targeting

I use these cookies to collect information about your browsing habits in order to deliver content, including advertising relevant to your interests, on our site or third party sites. They are also used to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement, and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign.

How To Manage Cookies

Most browsers allow you to accept or decline cookies and to delete cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.

I have incorporated specific cookie functionality on my website that allows you to easily indicate when you first visit the website whether or not you are happy for cookies to be set on your device. By continuing to use my website you are agreeing to the use of cookies. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options.

Blocking, deleting, or disabling our cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of my website. By deleting cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the website.

If you want to delete any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer’s instructions by clicking “Help” in your browser menu.

Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Security - How Do You Protect My Information?

I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. I have put in place appropriate security measures to protect your information against loss, unauthorised access, use, alteration, theft, misuse, disclosure, or deletion and to safeguard your privacy. Although I make every effort to protect the personal information which you provide, remember that no method of data transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. As such, I cannot guarantee its absolute security and any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. In the event that personal information is compromised as a breach of security, I will notify you in compliance with applicable law.

Data Retention - How Long Will You Keep My Personal Information?

I will not retain your personal information for any longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which you provided that data as set out in this privacy statement, unless the law requires that I retain it for a longer period of time or unless you ask me to delete it sooner.

Links To Third Party Websites

This website may contain links to other third party websites. This privacy policy does not apply to third party websites. This privacy policy only applies to the personal information collected through this website. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites may have their own privacy policies. I do not control these third parties’ use of cookies, collection of information, or how they manage and store such information. Nor do I accept any responsibility or liability for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party websites. It is your sole obligation to review and understand the privacy practices and policies of these other websites before you submit any personal information to them.

Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following legal rights in relation to the personal information which I hold about you:

Right of access - you have the right to be informed of and have access to the personal data I hold about you;
Right to rectification - You have the right to have your personal data amended or updated if any of your personal data held by me is inaccurate or incomplete;
Right to erasure - You have the right to ask me to delete any personal information I hold about you, under certain conditions;
Right to restriction of processing - You have the right to request that I stop processing your personal data;
Right to object to processing - You have the right to object to me using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes;
Right to data portability - You have the right to ask that I transfer the personal information you gave me to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact me at hello@bethgriffiths.co.uk. If you want to learn more about your rights under the GDPR, you can visit the European Commission’s page on Data Protection at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

I may update my privacy policy from time to time to ensure that it is up-to-date with my use of your personal information and compliant with applicable data protection laws. Any changes I make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. You are advised to check this privacy policy regularly to keep up to date with any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective immediately when they are posted on this website. By continuing to use this website, you agree to the latest version of my privacy policy.

Contact

If you have any questions or queries about this privacy policy or how I use your personal information, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data, please contact me by email via hello@bethgriffiths.co.uk.