Amanda Barrett Creative Design Privacy Policy
1.0 User privacy and data protection
We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information unless by law we are required to do so
We will only collect and processes data on people when absolutely necessary and have a duty of care to people whom we collect data on
2.0 Relevant legislation
This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
3.0 Personal information that this website collects and why we collect it
This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:
3.1 Tracking of site visitors
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see section 6.0 below).
3.2 Contact forms
Should you choose to contact us using any of the contact forms within this website, the information that you submit will be received by us as an email notification.
This will contain the name you have given plus your email address and message.
When requesting a design consultation we will need to ask for your telephone number in order to phone you.
4.0 How we store your personal information
As detailed above, if you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website or if you submit a contact form some personal information will be stored within this website’s database. These are currently the only occasions where personal data will be stored on this website. This data is currently stored in an identifiable fashion; a limitation of the content management system that this website is build on (WordPress).
5.0 About this website’s server
This website is hosted by Heart Internet within a UK data centre located in Nottingham.
6.0 Our third-party data processors
We use one third party to process personal data on our behalf. This third party has been carefully chosen and comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0 of this privacy policy. This third party is based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.
7.0 Data breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
8.0 Data Protection Officer
The data protection Officer of this website is: Amanda Barrett of Amanda Barrett Creative Design please contact via our contact form on this website
9.0 Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.
9.1 Change log
21/02/2019