Welcome to South Devon Websites. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.southdevonwebsites.co.uk, use our services, or communicate with us. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
South Devon Websites is the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any relevant local legislation.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and address.
Business Information: Company name, position, and industry.
Project Information: Details you provide about your web design or development needs.
Payment Information: Billing address and payment details.
Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.
We may receive information about you from third parties, such as analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics), advertising networks, and search information providers.
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
To provide and maintain our services.
To manage your account and provide customer support.
To process transactions and send you related information, including purchase confirmations and invoices.
To communicate with you about updates, offers, and news about our services.
To personalize and improve our website and services.
To understand how our website and services are being used.
To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.
We process your personal data on the following legal bases:
Consent: When you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
Contract: When we need your personal data to perform a contract with you.
Legal Obligation: When we are legally required to process your data.
Legitimate Interests: When it is in our legitimate interests and these are not overridden by your rights.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe.