Privacy Policy including Cookies

Suzanne Rudge, trading as 'Sue Rudge Design & Communication' is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to this website (http://www.suerudgedesign.com or forwarded from http://www.suerudge.com); this policy explains how your personal information is treated.

When you first visit the website you are asked to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. In any event by using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Collecting personal information
Through this website I may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
b) information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
c) information that you provide when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services;
d) information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication);
e) any other personal information that you choose to send.
2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Using personal information
Personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy.
I may use your personal information to:
a) administer our website and business;
b) enable your use of the services available on our website;
c) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
d) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
e) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
f) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
g) send you marketing communications relating to our business which I think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can amend this by contacting me at any time);
h) provide third parties with statistical information about users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
i) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
j) keep our website secure and help prevent fraud;
k) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of this website (including monitoring messages sent through the website); and
l) send you online surveys.
I will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

Disclosing personal information
I may disclose your personal information to any of my insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
I may disclose your personal information:
a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

Retaining personal information
This section sets out the data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that I comply with my  legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information that I process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
a) to the extent that I am required to do so by law;
b) if I believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
c) in order to establish, exercise or defend my legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Security of personal information
I will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
I will store all the personal information provided on secure servers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet or stored on cloud technology.

Amendments
I may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on the website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

Your rights
You can instruct me to provide you with any personal information I hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
a) the payment of a £10 fee; and
b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
I may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
You can instruct me at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
In practice, you will expressly agree in advance to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third party websites
This website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. I have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information
Please let me know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

About cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

This website is built and hosted using Weebly Inc which utilises cookies. The cookies on this website may recognise a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they navigate the website, improve the website's usability, analyse the use of the website, administer the website, prevent fraud and improve the security of the website, personalise the website for each use, target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users.

Weebly automatically analyses the use of this website and displays it for my use on the dashboard. The analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies including, but not limited to, how many people visited this website, which pages were visited, which search terms were used to find this site, and which websites referred traffic to my site.
Weebly's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ .Our website also uses third party cookies.

Blocking cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
a) in Internet Explorer (version 11) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
b) in Firefox (version 39) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
c) in Chrome (version 44), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Deleting cookies
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
Internet Explorer (version 11) – you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11);
Firefox (version 39) – you can delete cookies by clicking 'Tools', 'Options' and 'Privacy', then selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, clicking 'Show Cookies", and then clicking 'Remove All Cookies'; and
Chrome (version 44) – you can delete all cookies by accessing the 'Customise and control' menu, and clicking 'Settings', 'Show advanced settings' and 'Clear browsing data', and then selecting 'Cookies and other site and plug-in data' before clicking 'Clear browsing data'.
Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Contact details
This website is owned and operated by Suzanne Rudge.

Suzanne Rudge can contacted in writing to The Studio, Branxton, Cornhill on Tweed, Northumberland TD12 4SP, by telephone on 07955 886748 or by email to [email protected]

Suzanne Rudge does not accept any liability that may arise from using or downloading information from this website.