for YourFabulousWedding.co.uk
Updated 28 January 2019
Your privacy is hugely important to us. We want you to be confident that the information you give us when using our site is safe and secure. In this Privacy Policy we’ll explain how we use it.
We’ll also tell you how and why we collect your personal info, your rights and choices when it comes to these details, as well as the steps we take to keep it secure and confidential.
1. What this Privacy Policy covers
This is the Privacy Policy for YourFabulousWedding.co.uk (the “Site”).
We are committed to putting customers first and being transparent on how we collect, use and protect your personal information. The data controller is Louise Wearmouth, the owner of Your Fabulous Wedding Limited and this site.
We want you to be confident that the personal information you give us is safe and secure with us and understand how we use it to offer you a better and more personalised experience on our Site.
Our Site contains links to third-party websites that are not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please make sure you read a third party’s terms and conditions and privacy policy carefully before providing any personal information on a third-party website, as we cannot accept any responsibility or liability for those third-party websites.
2. Personal information we collect
When you register for our newsletter emails, you must provide us with your name and email address.
The “Contact Us” section of the website creates an email that allows us to respond directly to your query, typically by email or a method you have requested.
3. How we collect and use your personal information
We collect your name and email address when you register to receive our newsletter email. We use this to send you our newsletter. This is usually weekly, but on occasion we may send a special edition when we have something really important to share with you and it doesn’t happen very often.
We will only collect and process your personal information if you have consented for us to do so.
The information we collect for our email newsletter is stored on our behalf by an email service provider. This allows us to set up and distribute our newsletters efficiently. They also provide us with tracking information, e.g. what proportion of people opened the email. We use this information to improve the content our emails.
4. Disclosure of your personal information to other organisations
We use Mailchimp to create and distribute our email newsletters. They store and utilise the data we collect on sign-up to do this.
5. How you can change permissions
Your privacy is of huge importance to us. All emails or other forms of communication directly from us to you will include clear instructions on how to unsubscribe. Plus, if you don’t want to be contacted by us anymore you can email louise@yourfabulouswedding.co.uk. Section 6 below also sets out your other information rights.
6. Your information rights and responsibilities
You have the following rights:
Right to correct: the right to have your personal information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
Right to erase: the right to request that we delete or remove your personal information from our systems;
Right to restrict our use of your information: the right to ‘block’ us from using your personal information or limit the way in which we can use it;
Right to data portability: the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your personal information;
Right to object: the right to object to our use of your personal information including where we use it for our legitimate interests. If you raise an objection, we will stop processing your personal information
To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out in this Privacy Policy and/or make a complaint please contact Louise@yourfabulouswedding.co.uk.
If you’re not satisfied with the way any complaint you make in relation to your personal information is handled by us, then you may be able to refer your complaint to the relevant data protection regulator. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office.
7. Cookies
A cookie is a small computer file, which may be downloaded to your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. Cookies are harmless files which can help improve your experience of using a website if your browser’s preferences allow it. The website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering your online preferences.
From time to time, we promote ourselves on third-party sites, with companies such as Facebook and Google. Mailchimp also tracks the effectiveness of our email newsletters. Cookies help us understand how effectively we’re doing this.
The information derived from our use of cookies will be aggregated to provide statistical information about the usage of our website. We do not use any information derived from cookies to identify any individual user of our Site.
Some third-party technologies we use (e.g., embedded videos, social sharing) also drop cookies to improve your experience on their sites.
8. Keeping your personal information secure
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us so we store and process your personal information in accordance with the high standards required under data protection legislation.
9. How long do we keep your personal information?
Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your personal information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or until you request it is deleted.
If, having registered for any of our services, you do not use them for a reasonable time (which may vary depending on the service(s) you’ve registered for) we may contact you to ensure you’re still happy to receive communications from us.
10. How to contact us
Our Data Protection Officer is Louise Wearmouth, the Owner of yourfabulouswedding.co.uk, and Your Fabulous Wedding Limited.
If you have any queries relating to our use of your personal information or any other related data protection questions, please contact us at Louise@yourfabulouswedding.co.uk.
11. Changes
This policy is effective from 28 January 2019. We may, from time to time, make changes to this Privacy Policy to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or Site enhancements. We will let you know what these changes are by posting them to this page. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email you with the new details and get your consent to make these changes where required by law.
It is your responsibility as a user to make sure that you are aware of changes posted on this page, by checking for any changes on a regular basis. Changes posted on this page will become effective as soon as they are posted.
