Cookie policy

My website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. This helps me to provide you with a good experience when you browse my website and also allows me to improve my website.

Last updated May 2023.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that I store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. 

I use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of my website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of my website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow me to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around my website when they are using it. This helps me to improve the way my website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to my website. This enables me to personalise the content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to my website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. I will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. I may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which I have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google Analytics – this is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. The cookies used by Google Analytics help me to analyse how users use my website and to count the number of people who use it. Google Analytics stores your IP address anonymously. Google does not associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information;

  • Facebook Ads (the Facebook pixel) – these cookies collect information about how visitors use my website. This data is collected anonymously and is used to help improve this website’s functionality; and

  • Google Ad Words – these cookies collect information about how visitors use my website. This data is collected anonymously, to help make my marketing communications more relevant, and is used to improve my website’s functionality.

You can use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) but you may not be able to access all or parts of this website.

Disclosures of your personal data

I may disclose your information in the following cases:

  • If I want to sell my business, or my company, I can disclose it to the potential buyer

  • I can disclose it to other businesses in my group, as defined in the UK Companies Act 2006

  • I can disclose it if I have a legal obligation to do so, or in order to protect other people's property, safety, or rights

  • I can exchange information with others to protect against fraud or credit risks.

I require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. I don’t allow my third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with my instructions.

International transfers

I may transfer your personal data outside of the UK/EU where engage third parties to provide services on my behalf, such as to receive services or deal with payment. Whenever I transfer your personal data out of the UK/EU, I ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented, such as only transferring your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data. Please contact me if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by me when transferring your personal data out of the UK/EU. 

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. I also limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on my instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. I have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where I am legally required to do so.

Data retention

I will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes I collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. I may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if I reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to my relationship with you. The appropriate retention period will vary depending on the type of personal data collected. 

Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data: 

  • Request access to your personal data.

  • Request correction of your personal data.

  • Request erasure of your personal data.

  • Object to processing of your personal data.

  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.

  • Request transfer of your personal data.

  • Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact me at hello@leannes.co.

You won’t have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights), but I can charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or I can refuse to comply in these circumstances. 

I may need you to provide evidence of your identity as a security measure and I may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up my response.

I try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month, but 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 and keep you updated.

You may also wish to read my Privacy Policy.