Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 25th March 2024

Welcome to mikeaustin.co.uk, owned and operated by Mike Austin. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how mikeaustin.co.uk collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this site when you sign up for our newsletter, purchase a product or service, or take part in a competition.

Controller

Michael Austin (known as Mike Austin) is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “mikeaustin.co.uk”, “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy policy).

Contact Details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Michael Austin
Email address: mike@mikeaustin.co.uk
Postal address:88 Henley Drive, Frimley Green, Surrey, Surrey, UK.
Telephone number: +44 (0)7947 093838

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.

Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on 25th March 2024. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The Data We Collect About You

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 data).

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

– “Identity Data” includes [first name, last name, username or similar identifier].
– “Contact Data” includes [billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers].
– “Financial Data” includes [bank account and payment card details].
– “Transaction Data” includes [details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us].
– “Technical Data” includes [internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website].
– “Profile Data” includes [your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses].
– “Usage Data” includes [information about how you use our website, products, and services].
– “Marketing and Communications Data” includes [your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences].

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

– Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
– Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
– Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in paragraph 3 above.

– External Third Parties such as [Service providers acting as processors based [Country] who provide IT and system administration services].
– Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers based in [Country] who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
– Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.

5. International Transfers

We share your personal data within the [Your Website Name] Group. This will involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors