Privacy Policy

This website is compliant with GDPR privacy legislation.

Protecting your personal data is a priority. I comply with all relevant data protection legislation and the following privacy notice is intended to provide transparency about how I handle your personal data.

This website is hosted by WordPress.com and all data collection and cookie usage is overseen by its parent company Automattic.com. You can read its Privacy Policy in full here: automattic.com/privacy/

Your personal data is only collected by this website if you choose to fill in the comments section, the newsletter sign-up, or complete the contact form on this website.

  • Data entered into the comments sections is held by this WordPress.com website.
  • The contact form on this website is connected to a 1and1 email account, therefore if you complete it, your data will be shared with 1and1.
  • The email sign-up form on this website is connected to a MailChimp account, therefore if you complete it, your data will be shared with MailChimp.

You can read 1and1s privacy policy in full here:  www.1and1.co.uk/terms-gtc/terms-privacy

You can read MailChimp’s Privacy Policy in full here: mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

You are able to unsubscribe from the Sarah Ockwell-Smith newsletter at any time, by clicking the Unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting the website’s owner , Sarah Ockwell-Smith, via the WordPress-hosted contact form

Any other data collected about you is held by WordPress.com and is only available to the end user (the owner of this website, Sarah Ockwell-Smith) in an anonymised form, for example, as visitor stats.

No data from this website is downloaded by the owner of the site or stored outside of the cloud services mentioned above.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the website’s owner , Sarah Ockwell-Smith, via the WordPress-hosted contact form