Privacy Policy
Last Updated 08.07.24
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Who we are
This website is owned and operated by Anita-Maria Jackson. The website address is www.lifewithanniejay.com and contact email is annie@lifewithanniejay.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice that we may provide at or around the time that we collect or process personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using that data.
By visiting our Website, you agree to its terms (including as amended from time to time) and this Privacy Policy. If, for any reason, you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please stop using this Website.
We reserve the right to revise or amend this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes to the business or changes in the law. Where these changes are significant we will endeavour to e-mail all of our registered users to make sure that they are informed of such changes. However, it is your responsibility to check this Privacy Policy before each use of the Website.
Please note that our Website is not directed at children under the age of 13 (“Child” or “Children”) and we do not knowingly collect personal information about Children. If you believe we have collected personal information about your Child, you may contact us at annie@lifewithanniejay.com and request that we remove information about your Child.
Data we collect from you when you use our Website
When you use this Website (by filling in forms, registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or other social media functions on our Website) contact us by email or report a problem with this Website, we may collect, store and use certain personal information that you disclose to us. The information we collect from you may include (but is not limited to) kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data:includes first name, last name, title.
- Company Data: includes name, company website.
- Contact Data: includes e-mail address, billing address, postal address, telephone number; and mobile number.
- Financial Data: includes details for invoicing.
- Transactional Data: includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and Services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: includes IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Website.
- Profile Data: includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences and feedback.
- Usage Data: includes information about how you use our Website, products and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
How and why do we use/share your information
Collecting your information
Here are some examples about how we may use the information we collect about you:
- to provide you with a personalised browsing experience when using this Website;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- to fulfil any contractual agreements between you and us;
- to comply with legal and regulatory requirements;
- to manage any account that you hold with us;
- to administer our site and for internal operations including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; to ensure that content from this Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; and
- to notify you about changes to this Website or our services; and
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.
Why is this website allowed to use your information in this way?
We will only use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where you have asked us to do so, or consented to us doing so;
- Where we need to do so in order to perform a contract we have entered into with you;
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your fundamental rights do not override those interests; and
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Sharing your information
Depending on how and why you provide us with your personal data we may share it in the following ways:
- with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of this Website.
We will not share your information with third parties in order for that third party to provide direct marketing communications to you, unless it relates to a specific activity which we are undertaking with a third party and you have provided your consent for such use. Such activity will have its own terms and conditions relating to the way in which your information may be used.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties in the following events:
- if we were to sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we might disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
- if ALW or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; and
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Service Providers
Our service providers provide us with a variety of administrative, statistical, and technical services. We will only provide service providers with the minimum amount of personal data they need to fulfil the services we request, and we stipulate that they protect this information and do not use it for any other purpose. The following is a list of our current service providers:
- Google Analytics
To access the Google analytics privacy policy please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB
Links to third party sites
Our site may, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. We may also provide links to third party websites that are not affiliated with https://lifewithanniejay.com/. All third party websites are out of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access third party sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that could be used by them, in accordance with their own privacy policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to those websites.
How long we retain your data
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Typically, contact form entries are held for up to six months.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Where you sign up to receive e-mail marketing from us we will retain your e-mail address after you ‘opt-out’ of receiving e-mails in order to ensure that we continue to honour and respect that request. To unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email and update your account preferences. You may also contact us to inform us if you do not wish to receive any marketing materials from us.
Cookies
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs. By lifespan, a cookie is either a:
- Session cookie. Temporary cookie that remains in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the website.
- Persistent cookie. This remains in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:
- First-party cookies. These cookies are issued from the website you have accessed and often serve to give memory about your data and preferences.
- Third-party cookies.These are stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain.
How we use cookies on our website and what information we collect
- Strictly necessary cookies.These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies.They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies.These are used to recognise you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies.These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.
We use Google Analytics to collect information about you in aggregated form to help us understand how the Website is being use and to help us customise the Website for you.
Disabling or enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our Website if cookies are disabled.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Comments
Comments are currently not enabled for this website. If a comments feature is enabled in future, the below will then apply.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact information
If you have privacy-specific concerns, please contact annie@lifewithanniejay.com