Privacy Policy

I take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to respond to any questions you may have and to provide the products and services you have requested from me. This Privacy Policy explains how I obtain, use and store your personal data. 

What do I do with the personal information you supply?

When you contact me by email or letter I will use the personal data you supply solely to provide you with the products or information you have requested from me for contractual use to fulfill your order. This includes your email address, physical address and sometimes a telephone number if required for delivery purposes. I do not share or sell your information with any third party and I do not operate a mailing list or newsletter. Basically, you will not hear from me again unless you contact me yourself.

Your information is then stored by me to comply with my legal and tax obligations as a business owner. I may also keep a record of emails to inform any future communication between us and to demonstrate how I communicated with you throughout. I do this on the basis of my contractual obligations to you, my legal obligations and my legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how I can improve my service based on your experience. 

How long will I retain your personal information? 

I value your custom and protect your data security. I treat your data with care and take steps to protect it using appropriate measures in the workplace Currently tax laws dictate that we keep records for a minimum of 10 years.

Web server logs and security

When you visit this website, information about your device, operating system and browser, and your IP address are automatically saved in log files. This serves a number of purposes, including helping to keep the website secure and helping to diagnose any problems that might arise.

Cookies

I use a third party plug-in from Stat Counter to capture data such as IP address. This information is used soley for statistical purposes and not to idendify the individual. Statcounter is an online service which helps me to understand my visitors; for example, how visitors find my website, how long they spend on my site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. I use Statcounter to better understand how visitors are interacting with my website to help improve the content, design and functionality. Statcounter is an anonymous web tracking service and does not attempt to identify an individual person; the focus is on what visitors to this website do, not who that visitor is. Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on my website. This data includes: Time and date of visit; IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet); Browser and Operating System (this can help me to make sure that the website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access the site); Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access the site) and Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help me understand which search engines are helping visitors to find the website).

When you visit my website a Statcounter cookie (called "is_unique") may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.  For further information please follow this link https://statcounter.com/about/legal/

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Your rights

In accordance with UK and European law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have numerous rights in regards to the personal data we hold about you, including:

Right to confirmation – you have the right to know if I hold personal data that concerns you.

Right to access – you have the right to view and to obtain a copy of any personal data I hold that concerns you.

Right to rectification – you have the right to the correction of any inaccuracies within the personal data I hold that concerns you.

Right to erasure – you have the right to have your personal data removed from my systems excepting those held for legitimate interests (ie for tax or legal obligations).

Please visit the Contact page if you would like to get in touch with me.