Privacy Policy & General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
This privacy policy is for this website, Ceremonies for Life and Death, served by Wix, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It explains how I comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act (DPA), and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how I process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhere to. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how I, this website, and its third parties interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. A link to my contact information is provided at the bottom of this page if you have any questions.
The DPA & GDPR May 2018
This website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and already complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into effect from May 2018. I will update this policy accordingly after the completion of the UK's exit from the European Union.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.
What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.
Website Visitor Tracking
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. My purpose for using this information is to track websites you arrive from so that I may better understand my typical customer's arrival points. Only aggregate information is gathered.
Advertisements and Sponsored Links
This website does not contain sponsored links or advertisements. I do not earn money from the use of ads nor do I harvest, sell, or share email addresses or other identifying information for revenue or marketing.
Downloads & Media Files
Any downloadable documents, files, or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications. I accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti-virus software or similar applications.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting me through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, generally 12 months after the completion of any contracted work.
External Website Links & Third Parties
Although I strive to include only quality, safe, and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. I cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite my best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and I cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned. Third party links/servers you may currently notice in use are Instagram (social media), Dubsado (customer relationship management tool), Square (credit card payment system), and Acuity (calendar scheduling app). I have taken steps to ensure that all third-party tools I use also comply with the GDPR standards and requirements.
Social Media Policy & Usage
I adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure I conduct myself accordingly online. While I may have official profiles on social media platforms, users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. I will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with me on social media.
There may be instances where my website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page.
If you have any questions, just contact me. I'm a real person!