Privacy Policy
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This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, and protected when you visit gracetankard.com. This website is the personal portfolio website of Grace Tankard. The data controller is: Grace Tankard
This policy applies to visitors to gracetankard.com and anyone who contacts Grace Tankard through the website or by email.
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This website may collect the following information:
your name and email address, if you contact Grace directly
any information you choose to include in an email or enquiry
basic technical information about how the website is used, such as browser type, device type, pages visited, and general location data, if analytics are enabled
cookie information, depending on your cookie choices
This website does not knowingly collect sensitive personal information unless you choose to provide it.
Security & Payments
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Your information may be used to:
respond to enquiries
discuss potential work, collaborations, or professional opportunities
manage professional correspondence
understand how visitors use the website
improve the website, portfolio, and user experience
maintain website security and performance
Under UK data protection law, personal information must be processed under a lawful basis.
The lawful bases used may include:
Consent, where you have agreed to something, such as optional analytics cookies
Legitimate interests, where information is used to respond to enquiries, maintain the website, and understand professional interest in the site
Contract, where communication relates to potential or existing work
Legal obligation, where information must be kept to comply with the law
Cookies
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This website may use cookies or similar technologies to help the site work properly, understand how visitors use it, and improve performance.
Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. Some cookies are essential for the website to function. Others, such as analytics cookies, should only be used with your consent.
If analytics tools are used, they may collect information such as:
pages visited
time spent on the website
referring websites
browser and device type
approximate location
You can control cookies through your browser settings. If a cookie banner appears on the website, you can use it to manage your preferences.
This website may use third-party services to host, manage, analyse, or improve the site. These may include website hosting platforms, analytics providers, email providers, or security tools.
These providers may process limited personal data where necessary to provide their services. Some third-party services may process data outside the UK. Where this happens, appropriate safeguards should be used by those providers in line with UK data protection law.
License
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Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary. Enquiry emails and professional correspondence may be kept for as long as needed to manage work, maintain records, or follow up on professional opportunities.
Analytics information, if collected, is usually retained in aggregated or anonymised form unless otherwise stated by the analytics provider.
Personal information will not be sold.
Information may be shared only where necessary with:
website hosting or technical service providers
email or cloud storage providers
professional advisers, if legally or commercially necessary
authorities or regulators, if required by law
Under UK data protection law, you have rights over your personal information. These may include the right to:
access the personal information held about you
ask for inaccurate information to be corrected
ask for information to be deleted
object to certain uses of your information
ask for processing to be restricted
withdraw consent, where consent is the lawful basis
complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office
To ask about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact Grace Tankard.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will always be available on this page.