🔐 Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 2025
Website: https://privacypad.co.uk

Welcome to Privacy Pad. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in line with UK GDPR and ICO guidelines.

🧾 Who We Are

Privacy Pad helps organisations simplify GDPR compliance.
📍 Based in the UK

📧 Contact: info@privacypad.co.uk

📋 What Information We Collect

When you use our website or services, we may collect:

• 👤 Name and contact details (e.g. email, phone)
• 🧠 Information you provide during GDPR Health Checks
• 📬 Communications between you and Privacy Pad

🎯 How We Use Your Information

We use your data to:

• 🧪 Provide GDPR Health Check reports
• 🔁 Follow up with you about your report or enquiries
• 📣 Send you marketing about Privacy Pad services (opt-out anytime)

We process your data based on legitimate interests and/or your consent, where appropriate.

📬 Marketing Communications

We may contact you with updates or offers related to our services.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in our emails or contacting us directly.

🔒 How We Keep Your Data Safe

We use secure systems and practices to protect your data from:

• ❌ Loss or misuse
• ❌ Unauthorised access
• ❌ Disclosure or destruction

Only authorised personnel and trusted partners have access.

🔁 Sharing Your Data

We do not sell your data.
We may share it with trusted third parties who help us operate (e.g. web hosting, CRM), under strict data processing agreements.

✅ Your Data Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• 📄 Access your data
• ✏️ Correct inaccurate data
• ❌ Request deletion
• ⛔ Object or restrict processing
• 🔙 Withdraw consent at any time

To exercise your rights, email us at info@privacypad.co.uk

🍪 Cookies

We use cookies on our website to enhance your browsing experience and provide certain features. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device when you visit our website.

Types of Cookies We Use:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.

• cookie-consent: Stores your cookie preferences (accepted or rejected). This cookie is set when you make a choice in our cookie consent banner. Duration: 365 days.

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced functionality.

• Currently, we do not use any functional cookies beyond those that are essential.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how users interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and how users find our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
  • _ga: Used to distinguish users. Expiration: 2 years.
  • _gid: Used to distinguish users. Expiration: 24 hours.
  • _gat: Used to throttle request rate. Expiration: 1 minute.

Managing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in several ways:

• Through our cookie consent banner which appears when you first visit our site
• By adjusting your browser settings to block or delete cookies

Please note that blocking certain cookies may impact your experience on our website and limit the functionality we can provide.

Changes to Our Cookie Usage

We may update our cookie usage as we develop our website. Any changes will be reflected in an updated version of this privacy policy.

📞 Contact Us

Have questions or concerns?
Data Protection Officer
📧 Email: info@privacypad.co.uk

Or contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
🔗 https://ico.org.uk