Privacy Notice

Introduction

The privacy notice applies to this website, claremerrett.com. Contact information is at the bottom of this notice. I will only share your data where I need help to deliver the best service to you or have a legal obligation to do so. I never sell your data.

Personal Information

Most of the personal information processed is provided to me directly by you when you send me an email. This may include your name, email address, and phone number.

I also receive information indirectly, from the following sources.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power the site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

This information is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

How I use this information

I use the information you have provided in order to:

  • Help me understand which pages on my website are useful and make decisions about future content based on analytics.

  • Find out how people are discovering and using this website.

  • I do not share your information with anyone else.

Why I collect this information

The legal basis for processing your personal data is consent. You may withdraw this at any time. (More information about this is in the ‘Your rights in relation to personal data’ section of this notice).

How long is your personal data kept?

By default I keep your information indefinitely unless otherwise requested.

How your personal information is stored

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

The data given or collected from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. All steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy will be taken.

The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although I will do my best to protect your personal data, the security of your data transmitted to the site cannot be guaranteed. Any transmission is at your own risk.

Your rights in relation to personal data

You have the right to access information held about you, to rectify the information, and to withdraw consent for your data being used. More information about your rights is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Please contact me with any questions or requests (details at the bottom of this notice). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

This site may contain links to third-party websites. Please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. You are encouraged to read the privacy notices for these websites if you choose to follow a link.

How to contact

If you have any questions relating to this privacy notice, have questions about the data held about you, or would like to raise a complaint about how we have handled your personal data, you can contact Clare Merrett by the following means:

clare@claremerrett.com
07966554247