Cookie and privacy policy

Contact details

Sara Longmuir

Phone: 07941 015866

Email: enquiries@saralongmuir.co.uk

Cookies

Website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

Understanding how people use my website helps me to improve it and tailor it to my clients’ and contacts’ interests.

In order to learn about site traffic and activity, website host and analytics provider Squarespace collects personal data including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses the website. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

The cookie banner is message at the bottom of the screen that says: ‘By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to improve the website and to help it run effectively’. You have the option to click, or not to click, the ‘Ok, got it’ button.

Displaying fonts correctly

Squarespace.com, which hosts and provides the template for this website, uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Links to other websites

My website contains links to other third party websites, for example, website host, consultancy company and photographer. If you click on links to other websites and leave my website, please note that I don’t have any control over those other websites. Third party sites are not governed by this cookie and privacy policy.

Privacy

This privacy policy tells you out how I use and protect information that you provide when you use this website or contact me in some other way. If you provide information by which you can be identified, it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

I may change this policy from time to time by updating this page.

Personal information I may collect and process

  • Name

  • Phone number

  • Email address

  • Other information related to newsletters, client surveys, testimonials and feedback, special offers and my work with, or support of, clients and former clients

How I use your information

I aim to provide you with the best service I can:

  • I may contact clients between sessions to provide them with support if needed, e.g. a couple of days and then a couple of weeks after a stop smoking session I will contact the ex-smoker to see if they might need or want the free backup session

  • To improve my services and the information that I provide to clients and contacts

  • I may occasionally (approximately 6 times a year) email newsletters including information about new products and services, special offers and other information that you may find interesting and helpful using the email address you provided

  • Very occasionally (less than once a year), I may also contact clients and former clients by email about improving the services I provide or to request a testimonial or feedback

  • I may use the information to customise the website according to respondents’ interests.

How I get the personal information and why I have it

Most of the personal information I process is provided to me directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • To communicate with you if you become a client of mine

  • To check in with you and/or provide you with support if you are, or have been, a client of mine

  • To receive periodic email newsletters (approximately 6 times each year)

  • To make an enquiry, ask a question or send a comment and so that I can reply to you

  • To book a free 20 minute video call to help you to decide whether to book an appointment

I would never share (or sell, distribute or lease) your information information with any other individual(s) or organisation(s) without your express permission or unless I was required by law to do so.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Under GDPR, the lawful bases I rely on for processing this information are:

  1. Your consent: you have provided the information to me so that I can contact you or provide you with information via newsletters or answer a query you have raised. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting me at enquiries@saralongmuir.co.uk or by completing and submitting the contact form on the website and asking for your details to be removed from my database

  2. Contract: the processing is necessary where you are currently a client, have been a client in the past or are in the process of deciding whether to become a client and engage my services

How I store your personal information

I am committed to keeping your information secure and confidential. I have put in place physical and electronic procedures to safeguard and store your information securely.

I keep records of client hypnotherapy sessions in handwritten format in a locked filing cabinet. I shred and destroy notes approximately two years after the last contact a client has with me.

I keep names, phone numbers, email addresses and correspondence until you ask me to delete that information, then I will delete those records promptly.

How you can control your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information:

  • I may send you email newsletters (using Campaign Monitor), from which you can unsubscribe by clicking the link at the bottom of the email

  • If you have previously agreed to my using your personal information to contact you, provide you with on-going support or for marketing purposes (like sending you newsletters), you may change your mind at any time by emailing me at enquiries@enquiries@saralongmuir.co.uk and asking me to unsubscribe you from my newsletter and/or to remove all your details from my database and not to contact you for any reason.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access - to ask me for a copy of your personal information

  • Your right to rectification - to ask me to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate and complete information you think is incomplete

  • Your right to erasure - to ask me to erase your personal information in certain circumstances

  • Your right to restriction of processing - to ask me to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

  • Your right to object to processing - to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

  • Your right to data portability - to ask me to transfer the personal information you gave me to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you. Please contact me at enquiries@saralongmuir.co.uk if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about my use of your personal information, please contact me at enquiries@saralongmuir.co.uk. Your privacy is important and I want to help if you have any concerns.

If you are unhappy with my reply and the action I take, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Information Commissioner’s Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. ICO phone: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk