Privacy Policy
Introduction
Your privacy is important to me. You can rest assured that I am committed to protecting the personal data of all my readers. This policy provides details of how I use and collect any personal data you provide through Lady Chic Pea when you sign up for my newsletter or access and use my website.
This Privacy Policy is to assist you in making informed decisions when using this website. Your continued use of my website constitutes your acknowledgement and understanding of, and agreement with this Privacy Policy.
Your Information
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual.
Your data is collected when you email me directly, subscribe to my newsletter, and comment on my blog posts.
When you opt-in to my email list, your name and email address is held in Mailchimp and is password protected.
If you contact me directly via email or comment on my posts, your name, email address and any other content included in the email will be collected and held in my password protected email account, in order to send you a reply.
As you use my site, I may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns.
Use of Your Personal Information
I will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless I have your permission or are required by law to do so.
In general, Personal Information you submit to me is used
to respond to requests that you make, to aid me in serving you better.
to facilitate the email subscription on my Mailchimp;
send you a welcome email to verify ownership of the email address provided when you opt-in;
identify you as a user on my website;
to send newsletters, offers, and other promotional materials related to my website; and
perform marketing or data analysis.
As you browse the site, your IP address and information regarding your location, the type of browser you use, the device from which you connected to the service, the time of access and pages accessed may be collected. This information will not allow me to identify you directly, but is aggregated, allowing me to analyse my web traffic and gives me an insight into my site visitors, helping me to improve my content for you.
Gaining access to your data
You have the right to request a copy of the information I hold about you. If you would like a copy of the personal information I hold, please contact me. You also have the right to be forgotten, so you can contact me to request the data I hold be destroyed.
How long your data is retained
I will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes I collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
By law I must keep basic information about my website visitors (including contact, identity, financial and transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
How do I obtain your consent?
When you provide me with personal information by responding to posts, newsletter emails, and signing up for newsletters, you imply that you consent to my collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If I ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, including but not limited to marketing purposes, I will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no or ‘opt out’.
How do you withdraw or cancel your consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for me to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting me here.
Consent
Under no circumstances is your data ever sold or rented to a third party. I may share your data in the following circumstances:
to third parties if I believe that disclosure is advisable or necessary to comply with the law, to enforce or apply my terms and conditions, or to protect the rights, property or safety of myself or others.
Sharing your data
My website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave my site, I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information, which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.
Other websites
I use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to my website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
As you use this website, it uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. Cookies, in conjunction with the web server’s log files, allows me to calculate how many people visit my website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps me gather feedback in order to constantly improve this website and better serve my readers. Cookies do not allow me to gather any personal information about you and I do not store any personal information that you provided to me in your cookies.
If you don’t wish to have cookies stored on your device you can change your settings on most Internet browsers so that you will be warned each time a cookie is being sent, or so that cookies will be turned off. With cookies blocked, some functions of the site may not operate properly
Cookies
I reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If I make material changes to this policy, I will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information I collect, how I use it, and under what circumstances, if any, I use and/or disclose it.