Privacy Policy

IMPORTANT NOTE: This policy relates to the activities and actions of the authors of the blog and does not include any activities or actions of Wix.com who are the hosting provider for the blog or any other third parties who they may from time to time engage. For purposes of this policy “we” and “us” refers to the authors of the blog rather than Wix.com or any other third party. Please also refer to the Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy and relevant other policies and terms and conditions made available or supplied by Wix.com that may be in force from time to time.

1.    Introduction
1.1    We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our blog visitors; in this policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.

2.    Collecting personal information
2.1    We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a)    the email address you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters, your name, email and any additional information you provide when using our contact form;
(b)    information that you post to our blog for publication on the internet (including any name or user name, comment and additional information provided with the comment);
(c)    information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us;
(d)    any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
2.2    Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

3.    Using personal information
3.1    Personal information submitted to us through our blog will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the blog.
3.2    We may use your personal information to:
(a)    administer our blog and activities relating to it;
(b)    send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(c)    provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
(d)    deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our blog;
(e)    keep our blog secure and prevent fraud;

4.    Disclosing personal information
4.1    We may disclose your personal information to professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2    We may disclose your personal information:
(a)    to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b)    in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c)    in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and enforcement of copyright);
(d)    to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

5.    International data transfers
5.1    Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.
5.3    Personal information that you publish on our blog or submit for publication on our blog may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.4    You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

6.    Retaining personal information
6.1    This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2    Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3    Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a)    to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b)    if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c)    in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and enforcing copyright).

7.    Security of personal information
7.1    We make a reasonable assessment of whether our hosting provider takes reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information but cannot be held responsible for any failure in relation to their systems or equipment or in relation to third party providers that they may choose to engage from time to time.
7.2    You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

8.    Amendments
8.1    We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our blog.
8.2    You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
8.3    We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.

9.    Your rights
9.1    You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
(a)    the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
(b)    the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
9.2    We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

10.    Third party websites
10.1    Our blog may include hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2    We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies, practices or content of third parties.

11.    Updating information
11.1    Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

12.    Contact details
12.1  If you have any concerns or questions about how we handle your data then you can communicate with us through the Contact Us form on our blog.