Privacy & Cookie Policy
Last Updated: This Privacy & Cookie policy were updated on the 28th October 2020.
Thank you for visiting my website. For purposes of this agreement, “Site” refers to the Company’s website, which can be accessed at Billy Dosanjh. “Service” refers to the Company’s services accessed via the Site, in which users can utilise both paid and free resources to support their business needs. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company. “You” refers to you, as a user of our Site or our Service.
The Company respects the privacy of its Service users. Please refer to the Company’s Privacy Policy found below, which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Service, you signify your agreement with the Privacy Policy as well as our Cookie Policy which is also below.
For your reference my contact details are below:
Name: Billy Dosanjh
Address: 28 Brook Meadow Road, Walsall, West Midlands WS4 1TL
Phone Number: 07738 912086
Email: billy.dosanjh@gmail.com
The type of personal information we collect
The personal information we hold relating to you and your business may differ depending on the services we execute for you and the relationship we have. We use your personal data for the following purposes:
Personal information. Such as your name and email address which you provide when you sign up to my newsletter and consent to receive information from me. We use that information to contact you regarding the provision of my services, updates to the business and information. Personal information such as your name and email address are also collected when:
Invoicing information. Such as your Company name, VAT number, telephone, invoicing address, town, country, postal code, bank details, PO numbers etc. that you provide to us when you choose to buy our Services. I use such information to identify you and for invoicing purposes, as applicable.
Legal responsibilities. To protect our business operations and comply with UK Laws, we reserve the right to supply Government Agencies with relevant information on request. This includes but is not limited to: Police, HMRC, Trading Standards, etc.
Marketing preferences. To improve our marketing communications, we may collect information about interaction with, and responses to, our marketing communications. We hold your information for our newsletter lists in programs called MailChimp. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice here. MailChimp holds data in the USA – they comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, protecting your data. You will only receive marketing emails by verifying your request to receive it (i.e. double opt in email) and you can unsubscribe at any time by sending us an email to billy.dosanjh@gmail.com or by clicking on the links at the bottom of newsletter communications we send.
Online activity information. The usage data may include (1) The browser types and versions used (2) The operating system used by the accessing system (3) The website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers) (4) The sub-websites (5) The date and time (so-called timestamp) of access to the Internet site (6) An Internet protocol address (IP address) (7) The internet service provider (ISP) of the accessing system (8) The geographical location of the user (9) The page views and site navigation path (10) The pattern of the users use of the service with regards to timing and frequency (11) Any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
The source of the usage data is Google Analytics and Squarespace Analytics. Squarespace and Google Analytics needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. We also use this software to collect information about how you use my site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help me make improvements, for example improving site search. The usage data collected is needed to:
(1) deliver the content of my website correctly
(2) optimise the content of my website
(3) ensure the long-term viability of my information technology systems and website technology
(4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack.
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We do share Personal Information with vendors who are performing services for the Company, such as the servers for my email communications who are provided access to user’s email address for purposes of sending emails from me.
Sensitive Personal Data is neither requested nor collected by us generally. Sensitive Personal Data includes for example information relating to race or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, and health. If you do provide us with Sensitive Personal Data because we have agreed between us that such disclosure is necessary, you must also explicitly consent to us using it for the purposes for which it has been provided.
Our basis for processing
Signing up to our newsletter list is by your consent – and when you withdraw your consent we stop that processing your data. Apart from that, the information we hold is based on our needing the information to run our business and provide our products and services – either so we can perform our contract with you, or because we have a legitimate business interest in processing your data. In a few situations we are processing personal data because we are under a legal obligation to do so. This principally relates to our business, accounting and tax records.
How we store your personal information
How does Squarespace transfer customer and visitor data outside the EU? The GDPR requires certain safeguards when transferring personal data from outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland to "third countries," which are all countries outside these protected areas, including the United States. Squarespace is committed to treating personal data received from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland (as well as personal data received from elsewhere around the world) in a secure and privacy-first way, and processing it in a way that meets the European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses. Squarespace use Standard Contractual Clauses (also known as Model Contractual Clauses) as the legal basis for transferring personal data to third countries, including the United States. We protect your personal data and have put appropriate technical and organizational safeguards in place to meet these standards. You can read more here.
How Mailchimp store your information can be found here. MailChimp holds data in the USA – they comply with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, protecting your data.
Retaining and deleting your personal information
The personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept for longer than is necessary for the expressed purpose. We will retain your personal data as follows: Email address will be retained until you manually request to be removed from our mailing list. This data is stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the user, managing our relationships with customers, keeping records of communication with the user, and promoting my products and services to customers. IP addresses will be retained for a minimum period of 30 days and for a maximum period of 14 months. This data is stored to help us improve the Service, customise the user experience and make informed business decisions.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us 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, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at billy.dosanjh@gmail.com if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at billy.dosanjh@gmail.com You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
Cookie Policy
billy-dosanjh.com’s website may gather information about your general Internet use by using cookies in order to help you personalise your online experience. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. You consent to us placing non-essential cookies on your computer or device by continuing to use our website with your browser settings set to accept cookies.
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.
We monitor the volume of visitors to our website, how you found us, where you came from and which pages you view when visiting our site. We do not know who you are unless you contact us and tell us.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and
cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
Some of our service providers also use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. These are the third-party service providers that store cookies when you visit our website: 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. Through our Website we store the IP addresses of users in order to increase the session security.
Squarespace uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on your site. These cookies vary from site to site depending on the features it uses for example, Functional and Required Cookies. Information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device can be found below.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
We also use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about details of our users' visits to the Site (including IP addresses) and the resources they access on it. Google Analytics provides us with reports based on this information in order to us to help us understand how visitors engage with the Site. Google Analytics will not transfer the information it collects to any third party except where required to do so by law. Please note that we will not use Google Analytics to collect any information from which you can be personally identified, and we will not associate the information provided to us by Google Analytics with Your Information. For more information about Google Analytics, click here.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. Unless you do this, cookies will be issued when you use our Site, but you can delete them via your browser at any time. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. Unless you do this, cookies will be issued when you use our Site, but you can delete them via your browser at any time. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:
If you do not accept cookies, or decide to delete them, you will still be able to access the site. You can also install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On to prevent Google Analytics cookies being set, which is available for download here.