WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED AND HOW IT IS COLLECTED

We and our third party partners mays collect information and data from you or about you in a number of ways when you use our Services, correspond with us via email or otherwise. This information includes:

Personal Data

Personal data, or personal information, 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 or de-personalised data).

We may collect personally identifiable information including your name and email address, that you voluntarily give to us when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as subscribing to our email list, leaving comments on the Site, submitting contact forms via the Site or corresponding with us via email. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Services.

Your Duty to Inform us of Changes

It is important that the personal data which we hold about you is current and accurate. Please keep us informed if, at any point during your use of the Services, there are changes to the personal data which we hold about you.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this Site. If you choose to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy. This includes, but is not limited to, health information, political opinions, information regarding race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, criminal background or trade union memberships.

Children’s Information

Our Services are designed for those 18 years of age or older. Our Services are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18 or any data relating to children, nor do we knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that this Site has any personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in the database, please contact us via this contact form and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Cookies

Information may be collected from you and logged through the use of cookies, by us and our third party service providers, as described in this Privacy Policy under the heading Our Use of Cookies.

Non-Personal Identification Information

Whenever you interact with the Site and other Services, we collect non-personally identifiable information about you and the device with which you access the Services.

To power our Site analytics, the Site collects information including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address

This information may also include details about your use of the Site, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace needs the data to run this Site, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalised form.

This data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identitiy and thus, is by law not considered personal data. If we combine or connect this non-personal data with your personal data in a manner which can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

“Do Not Track” Signals

Based on your browser’s device settings, you may automatically transmit a “do not track” signal to sites and online services you browse. Our Services do no respond to “do not track” signals from browsers.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected from and about you in the following ways:

• To operate, maintain, enhance improve or modify the Site

• To send you emails if you subscribe to our email list

• To allow you to make comments on the Site

• To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you

• To compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties

• To track and measure advertising on the Site and understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you

• To monitor and analyse usage and trends in order to improve your experience on the Site

• To determine the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns, and if need be, adapt such campaigns to suit the interests of users

• To respond to user enquiries

• To administer and protect our Services

• To identify and protect, investigate, and deter against fraud and other unauthorised or illegal activity, claims and other liabilities.

• To comply with applicable legal requirements and law enforcement requests.

• For other legitimate business purposes

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

In certain circumstances we may share information we have collected from and about you and your information may be disclosed as follows:

By Law or to Protect Rights

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or to respond to any legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. We also have the right to co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the information or details of any person. You hereby waive and hold us harmless and unaccountable in any such circumstance.

Third Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including without limitation; data analysis, email delivery and hosting services.

Kit our email marketing provider, can send emails on our behalf to users who have voluntarily subscribed to our email list. Any information shared with Kit, such as name and email address, will have been voluntarily entered by the user for the purpose of subscribing to our email list.

Squarespace Analytics is our Site’s analytics provider.

Third Party Use of Information

The third party service providers mentioned above service various aspects of the Services and each provider’s use of your personal and non-personal information is governed by their respective privacy policies. Please refer to Kit’s privacy policy (https://kit.com/privacy) and Squarespace’s privacy policy (https://www.squarespace.com/privacy) for further information.

Anonymous Data and Other Third Parties

We may share your de-personalised data information with advertisers, affiliates and companies or brands we work with for the purpose of providing anonymous statistical data.

Publicly Visible Information

If you leave a comment on the Site, certain information such as your name and the contents of the comment you make may be publicly visible. Please note that any information that you disclose in publicly visible areas on the Internet, can be viewed by search engines, collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited contact from other parties. We cannot and shall not be responsible for any third party use of such information.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be stored by a web browser as either “persistent cookies” or “sessions cookies”. A persistent cookie helps sites remember your information and settings when you use them in the future. A persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie, is used to identify a particular visit to a site and will expire and be erased when the user closes their browser at the end of a user session. Cookies enhance your experience on this Site and we may log cookies for purpose such as authentication, security, analytics, personalisation, advertising and to enable certain functions of the Site.

The Cookies We Collect and Why

This Site is hosted by Squarespace and uses cookies and similar technologies. For more information visit: The cookies Squarespace uses.

On our Site:

• These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. By using the Site, you consent to the use of these cookies.

• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this Site, only when you choose to accept them via our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. However, if we combine or connect this non-personal data with your personal data in a manner which can directly or indirectly identify you, we shall treat this combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Cookies

Cookies may be used by third party services, including, but not limited to, our email marketing provider, Kit.

Please also note that when interacting with social media platforms via the Site, such as when using Pinterest buttons on this Site and interacting with Youtube videos embedded on this Site, these social networking sites may send cookies. We don’t control the setting of these third party cookies and suggest that you check such third party sites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

This Site includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this Site to Pinterest. If you click a share button, Pinterest may receive your personal data, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

• Your IP address

Embedded content from other websites, such as social media platforms like YouTube, may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with that embedded content; including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This Site may use font files from and render fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this Site to you, these third parties may receive information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Information about this Site and the page you’re viewing on it

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address

Consenting to Cookies

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with Squarespace, Kit and our other third party partners.

How to Opt-out

Users may, at any time, block the setting of cookies, by the Site, by using a corresponding Internet browser setting to permanently deny the setting of cookies. Already set cookies may likewise be deleted at any time via an Internet browser. If you are having trouble instructing your Internet browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. Blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many sites, including this Site. As a result of deactivating the setting of cookies, some parts of the Site and features of our Services may become inaccessible to you or not function properly.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

It should be noted that no site other than this Site, is governed by this Privacy Policy. This Site may contain links to other site, which can be followed by users of this Site. However, once you have used such a link to leave our Site, understand that we do not have any control over that other site or the manner in which it collects information from users. Third party sites have separate and independent privacy and other policies and practices. We cannot and will not be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide or which is collected about you, while viewing such sites as such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Clicking on third party links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We are not responsible or liable for the activities, content, usage terms, privacy and security practices and policies, or any other aspects of any third parties, including other sites, resources, services, or applications that may be linked to or from our Site.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We host our Site on a reputable platform and utilise a variety of electronic and physical measures to help protect and prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, or used, altered, disclosed or accessed in an unauthorised way. Whilst we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, no security measures are absolutely foolproof or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other types of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorised parties. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee complete security if you provide personal information and we make no explicit representations or warranties as to the safety of your information. We shall under no circumstances be liable for any inadvertent disclosure or breach of your personal information.

DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose(s) we collected it for, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, record-keeping or reporting requirements; unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your personal data.

In the case that you choose to make a comment on our Site, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

For statistical or research purposes, we may choose to anonymise your personal data (anonymised data can no longer identify or be associated with you) and use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Emails

On this Site, you may choose to subscribe to our email list so that we may send you emails.

To analyse the success of online marketing campaigns, we may receive and view analytics information from our email marketing provider Kit, including whether or not an email has been successfully delivered to a recipient and whether the recipient has opened the email, clicked on any link in the email or clicked the unsubscribe link in the email. If you have subscribed to our email list, you can opt out of future communications at any time by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. Some non-marketing communications may not be subject to a general opt-out, including disclosures to comply with legal requirements.

FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA RESIDENTS

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or are accessing this Site from within the EEA, then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you may have the rights, among other things, to request: access to, rectification of, erasure of; portability of; and restriction or objection to the processing of, your personal data. You may also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused. If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by submitting a written notice via this contact form.

Information we may need from you

As a security measure we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). The reason we may request such information is to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

Please note that we may be entitled to refuse requests, wholly or partly, where exceptions under the applicable law apply.

FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. This information supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors accessing the Site, who reside in the State of California.

California law entitles residents to certain information and rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). This includes the right to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale”. Within this Privacy Policy, we have disclosed what information we collect, how it is used, the types of third parties that may receive your information and for what purpose, as well as the different ways to opt-out of sharing your information.

Under the CCPA, you are also entitled to several rights including:

Right to access information: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect from you (if any) and how it has been used over the 12 months prior to the request date. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request to exercise this right, we will disclose the following:

• The categories of your personal information we collected

• The categories of your personal information we sold

• The categories of any third parties to whom we have disclosed or sold your personal information

• A list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party.

• The business or commercial purposes for collecting your personal information

• The categories of your personal information we disclose for business or commercial purposes

To reiterate, any disclosures we provide in response to a verifiable consumer request will only relate to the 12 month preceding the date the request was received.

Right to Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete personal information we may hold about you (if any), subject to certain exceptions. Please note that certain information may be exempt from such deletion requests under California law and this right to deletion does not apply and may be denied if retaining the information is necessary for us or any of our service providers to:

• Provide goods or service to you

• Detect or resolve security or functionality related issues including detecting and protection against malicious, unauthorised, deceptive, fraudulent, criminal, or illegal activity or prosecuting those responsible for such activities.

• Comply with the law

• Conduct research in the public interest

• Safeguard the right to free speech

• Exercise another right provided for by law; or,

• Carry out any actions you might reasonably expect within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you

Right to Non Discrimination

You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under the CCPA. If you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA, we may not as a result:

• Deny you any goods or services

• Charge you different prices for goods or services or deny benefits or impose penalties on such goods and services

• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services

• Suggest or threaten you with any of the above

How to exercise your rights by submitting a verifiable consumer request

If you are a California resident and would like to exercise any of these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us via this contact form. Once we have received and confirmed your verifiable consumer request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before we take any action regarding your personal information. You are also entitled to have a person registered with the California Secretary of State act on your behalf as an authorised agent and submit a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. In order for an authorised agent to be verified and act on your behalf, you are required to provide the authorised agent with a power of attorney or signed, written permission to make such a request. In certain instances, before we are able to process the authorised agent’s request, we may also need to follow up with you to verify your identity. Please note that you may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.

You are permitted to make a verifiable consumer request no more than twice in a twelve-month period. Furthermore, the verifiable consumer request you submit must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably establish that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorised representative acting on behalf of such a person.

• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to it.

We will be unable to fulfil your request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information in question indeed relates to you.

The personal information you provide in a verifiable consumer request will be used only to verify your identity or authority to make the request.

FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS

This information supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to all users accessing the Site, who reside in the State of Nevada. Pursuant to the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act (“NPICICA”), Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of any personal information. The sale of personal information is defined in the NPICICA as “the exchange of covered information for monetary consideration by the operator to a person for the person to license or sell the covered information to additional persons”. We do not sell your covered information which includes:

• Your first and last name

• Your address

• Your email address

• Your phone number

• Your social security number

• Any identifier that would allow you to be contacted either physically or online; or,

• Any other information concerning you, collected from you by the Services and maintained by us, in combination with an identifier in a form that makes the information personally identifiable.

If you would like to access or correct the personal information we may hold about you, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us via this contact form.

OTHER

The headings and subheadings in this Privacy Policy are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

CONTACT

If you wish to contact us about this Privacy Policy, please do so via this contact form.