Legal

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 26, 2025

Thank you for visiting my portfolio website. I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how I look after your personal data when you visit my website and tell you about your privacy rights.

1. Important Information

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how I collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you fill out the contact form, sign up for my newsletter, or use any other features of the website.

This website is not intended for children, and I do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Controller

I am the controller and responsible for your personal data (referred to as "I", "me", or "my" in this privacy policy).

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact me using the details set out below.

Contact Details

Email address: hello@yourname.com

2. The Data I Collect About You

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

I may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which I have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name and last name.
  • Contact Data includes email address.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, 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.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use my website.

3. How I Collect Your Personal Data

I use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give me your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with me by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Contact me through the contact form;
    • Subscribe to my newsletter;
    • Request marketing to be sent to you;
    • Give me feedback or contact me.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with my website, I may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. I collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

4. How I Use Your Personal Data

I will only use your personal data when the law allows me to. Most commonly, I will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where I need to perform the contract I am about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for my legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where I need to comply with a legal obligation.

Generally, I do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data although I will get your consent before sending third-party direct marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting me.

Purposes for Which I Will Use Your Personal Data

I have set out below a description of all the ways I plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases I rely on to do so.

  • To respond to your inquiries or fulfill your requests when you contact me via the contact form.
  • To send you newsletters or marketing communications if you have subscribed to them.
  • To improve my website and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you.
  • To administer and protect my business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

I may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above.

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
  • Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

I require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. I do not allow my third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with my instructions.

6. Data Security

I have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, I limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on my instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

I have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where I am legally required to do so.

7. Data Retention

I will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes I collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. I may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if I reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to my relationship with you.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact me at hello@yourname.com.

9. Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

10. Changes to the Privacy Policy

I may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes I make to this privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.