Privacy Policy Who we are Our website address is: https://iamcathb.co.uk Website owner: Cath B Akesson Registered with the HMRC as a Sole Trader “C B Akesson Creative” We respect your concerns about privacy and value our relationship with you in this digital age. This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal data we collect about our customers, how we use this information, with who the data can be shared and your rights as a customer regarding our use of this information. Your Information When you use our site, there are several ways in which you provide information and other data to us. By using this site or via social media interaction, you consent to us processing and collecting this data on the terms and for the reasons explained below. The types of personal data you provide to us may include: Contact information (such as name, postal address, email address and mobile or another phone number) Age or date of birth Gender Username and password, nickname/screen name Payment information (such as your payment card number, expiration date, and card security code) Shipping and billing information (such as a delivery address and billing address) Purchase history We may use your information to: Send you our newsletters from time to time Make payments for the purchase of goods and services Provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. Allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so Notify you about changes to our service Comments If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) 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. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. Legal basis for our use of the information We will use the information you provide for the above purposes if: it is necessary to perform a contract to which you are a party (e.g., to process your payment and deliver the products you have ordered); or we have obtained your consent; or if we have a legitimate interest in doing so (including a legitimate interest in performing marketing activities, research activities, data analytics, internal administration functions, processing and enforcing legal claims and conducting our business in compliance with all applicable laws, relevant industry standards and our policies). Embedded content from other websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Please note that if you click on, or follow, any links from our site to external websites, our privacy policy will no longer apply. Please check the privacy policies of any such external site before submitting any personal data, as we cannot accept any responsibility or liability in relation to them. Data Storage All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. We do not store credit card details or share customer details with third parties. We take your privacy very seriously and will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data, but please be aware that any data you send to our site is sent at your own risk. The data we collect from you may be transferred to, processed and/or stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EAA”). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. What rights do you have over your data You have the right under the Data Protection Act to access the information we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right, please send your request to cbakessoncreative@gmail.com We will always correct or delete any data once made aware of the request as such. If you would like to remove your data from our records, please contact cbakessoncreative@gmail.com If you do not want us to use your information for marketing purposes, please inform us by writing to cbakessoncreative@gmail.com CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS Under no circumstances will Cath B Akesson be responsible or liable for financial or other loss or damage caused by the failure or use, or misuse of our website. Unfortunately, malicious software, spyware, viruses and website hacking are common threats. Cath B Akesson cannot be held responsible for problems that develop on completed sites due to such illegal activity. SITE UPTIME We take all reasonable measures to ensure that this Website is operational daily. However, occasionally technical issues may result in some downtime; accordingly, we will not be liable if this website is unavailable. Where possible, we always try to give advance warning of maintenance issues that may result in the Website downtime, but we shall not be obliged to provide such notice. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on 28/06/2023.