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THE JOVIAL JOTTER BLOG  AND COPY-WRITING SERVICE PRIVACY POLICY

 

INTRODUCTION 

 

Company Name: The Jovial Jotter Blog-Writing Service

Contact email: thejovialjotter@gmail.com 

Telephone number: 07899 793146

 

This privacy policy will inform you as to how I look after your personal data and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
 

1.  IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO I AM

 

PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY  

 

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how The Jovial Jotter Blog and Copy-Writing Service collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you purchase any of my products.

 

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

  

CONTROLLER  

 

The Jovial Jotter Blog and Copy-Writing Service is the controller and is responsible for your personal data. 

 

CONTACT DETAILS  

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or my privacy practices, or you want to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact me in one of the following ways and I will respond to your query. 

 

Email address: thejovialjotter@gmail.com 

Telephone number: 07899793146  
 

THIRD-PARTY LINKS  

 

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. I do not control these third-party websites and am not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave my website, I encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

 

 

2.  THE DATA I COLLECT ABOUT YOU  

I may collect, use, store and transfer the following personal data about you:

 

 

  • Your name 

 

 

  • Contact information (Address, telephone number and email address) 

 

 

  • Transaction Data (details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from me). 

 

 

  • Technical Data (please see the cookies policy for more information) 

 

 

  • Website Usage Data (information about how you use our website, products and services).

 

I 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 I collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

3.  HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?  

 

I use the following methods to collect data from you: 

 

 

  • You provide me with your data when you contact me in order to enquire about my blog-writing or content writing services, or when you book through the website. 

 

 

  • As you interact with the website, I will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. I collect this personal data by using cookies. Please see the cookie policy below for further details.   

 

 

4.  MY LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA   

 

I process your personal data under the following legal bases: 

 

 

  • Consent: when you provide me with your information via email, you are consenting to me using this information in respect of your booking or order.

 

 

  • Contract: when you make a booking or order a product you are entering into a contract with me - I process your personal data in order to fulfil the contract. For example, to make payment or deliver products or services. 

 

 

  • Legal Obligation: for example, to keep accounting records for 6 years. 

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COOKIES   

This website uses marketing and tracking technologies which may use some personal data in order to work. Opting out of this will opt you out of all cookies, except for those needed to run the website. Note that some products may not work as well without tracking cookies.

To opt out of cookies please see the cookie banner at the bottom of the page.

For more information about cookies please see: https://allaboutcookies.org

 

5.  SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

 

I do not share your personal data with any external parties.  

  

6.  INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS  

 

I do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

 

7.  DATA SECURITY  

 

I have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. 

8.  DATA RETENTION  

I will keep your information on the database in order to carry out your order and for reference for any future orders which you make. I will delete/psendonomise/anonymise your details from the database if I have not received a booking from you in 24 months.

I will keep all invoices and financial data for 6 years as I am legally obliged to do so by HMRC. 

9.  YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS  

In relation to the personal data which I may hold about you, you may have the following rights:

•    Be informed how I process your data, as explained within this policy 

•    Access the information I hold about you, you can do this by making a subject access request. 

Ask me to: 

o    Rectify information about you that is incorrect or incomplete 

o    Delete (erase) information about you

o    Restrict how I process your information

o    Transfer your data in an accessible electronic format

o    Object to my processing of your information

•    Withdraw your consent to my processing 

•    Complain to me via the contact details below

•    Complain to the data regulator the Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) via www.ICO.org.uk   

Please contact me using the details above if you wish to assert your rights. 

 

NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED  

 

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, I may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, I could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

WHAT I MAY NEED FROM YOU  

 

I may need to request specific information from you to help confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. I may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up my response.

 

TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND  

 

I will respond to all requests within one month, either to confirm that I have carried out your request, or to explain why I have not. Occasionally it could take longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, I will notify you within one month that I require an extension and why.

 

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES  

 

I keep this privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 11/02/2024

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