Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 01 January 2023
Type of Website
Design Services by Lauren McLean
Site Owner
www.bylaurenmc.com (the “Site”) is owned by Lauren McLean. Lauren McLean is the data controller and can be contacted at hello@bylaurenmc.com.
Purpose
The purpose of this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is to inform users of our Site of the following:
The personal data we will collect;
Use of collected data
Who has access to the data collected;
The rights of Site users; and
The Site’s cookie policy.
This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.
GDPR
For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer as we do not fall within the categories of controllers and processors required to appoint a Data Protection Officer under the Article 37 of the GDPR.
Consent
By using our Site, users agree that they consent to;
The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy.
When the legal bases for us processing your personal data is that you have provided consent so that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time. If you withdraw your consent, it will not make processing which we completed before you withdrew your consent unlawful.
You can withdraw your consent by contacting the site owner at hello@bylaurenmc.com
Legal Basis for Processing
We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.
We rely on the following legal bases to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:
Users have provided their consent to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes; and
Processing of user personal data is necessary for us or a third party to pursue a legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of users. Our legitimate interest(s) are: the user has actively enquired about the services offered and that user's contact details are required to communicate about these services.
Personal Data We Collect
We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this privacy policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.
Data Collected Automatically
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: Information about your browser, network, and device; Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website; and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: Clicks, Internal links, Pages visited, Scrolling, Searches and Timestamps. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Data Collected Non-automatically
We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:
First Name; and
Email Address.
This data may be collected via the use of the Enquiry Form.
How we use your personal data
Data collected on our Site will only be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or indicated on the relevant pages of our Site. We will not use your data beyond what we disclose in this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect automatically is used for the following purposes:
To power our Site Analytics.
The data we collect when the user performs certain functions may be used for the following purposes:
Communication about design services that the user has enquired about.
Who we share personal data with
Employees
We may disclose user data to any member of the business who reasonably needs to access user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Third Parties
We may share user data with the following Third Parties:
Squarespace; and
Google Workspace.
We may share the following user data with third parties:
The data entered in the Enquiry Form.
We may share user data with third parties for the following purposes:
When you submit information to this Site via the Enquiry webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Workspace for storage.
Third parties will not be able to access user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.
Other Disclosures
We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:
If the law requires it;
If it is required for any legal proceeding;
To prove or protect our own legal rights; and
To buyers or potential buyers of the business in the event that we seek to sell the business.
If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control over their privacy policy and practices.
How Long We Store Personal Data
User data will be stored until the purpose that the data was collected for has been achieved.
You will be notified if your data is kept for longer than this period.
How We Protect your Personal Data
While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and users are protected, there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.
Your Rights as a User
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
Right to be informed;
Right of access;
Right to rectification;
Right to erasure;
Right to restrict processing;
Right to data portability; and
Right to object.
Children
We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we hace collected personal data from a child under 16 years of age, the personal data will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 16 years of age has provided us with personal data, their parent or guardian may contact our privacy officer.
How to Access, Modify, Delete or Challenge the Data Collected
If you would like to know if we have collected you personal data, how we have used your persona; data, if we have disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, if you would like your data to be deleted or modified in any way, or if you would like to exercise any of your other rights under the GDPR, please contact our privacy officer here:
Lauren McLean
hello@bylaurenmc.com
How to Opt out of Data Collection
In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete or Challenge the Data we Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use, or disclosure of your personal data specified below:
You can opt-out of the use of your personal data for communication. You can opt-out by emailing hello@bylaurenmc.com and requesting to stop communication.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file, stored on a user’s hard drive by a website. It’s purpose is to collect data about the users browsing habits. You can choose to be notified each time a cookie is transmitted. You can also choose to disable cookies entirely on your internet browser, but this may decrease the quality of your user experience.
This Site uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Modifications
This privacy policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top of the Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by email of changes to this Privacy Policy.
Complaints
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us through the contact method listed in the Contact Information section so that we can, where possible, resolve the issue. If you feel we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact a supervisory authority. You also have the right to make a complaint directly to a supervisory authority.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer, Lauren McLean, at hello@bylaurenmc.com