Privacy Policy

Protecting your personal details on our website.

Scot Baston (trading as Cornerstone Websites), whose place of business is 21 Wallingford Road, Kingsbridge, Devon, TQ7 1NA, knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust in us to do that carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy and forms part of our website terms and conditions ('Website Terms').

By accepting our Website Terms or by visiting **cornerstonewebsites.co.uk** ('the Website') you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Website is brought to you by Scot Baston (trading as Cornerstone Websites). We believe it is important to protect your Personal Data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) and are committed to giving you a personalised service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect Personal Data about you. It also explains some of the security measures we take to protect your Personal Data, and tells you certain things we will do and not do. You should read this policy in conjunction with the Website Terms.

When we first obtain Personal Data from you, or when you take a new service or product from us, we will give you the opportunity to tell us if you do or do not want to receive information from us about other services or products (as applicable). You can normally do this by ticking a box on an application form or contract. You may change your mind at any time by emailing us at the address below.

Some of the Personal Data we hold about you may be 'sensitive personal data' within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998, for example, information about your health or ethnic origin.

1. Collecting Information

We may collect Personal Data about you from a number of sources, including the following:

1.1. From you when you agree to take a service or product from us, in which case this may include your contact details, date of birth, how you will pay for the product or service, and your bank details.

1.2. From you when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case, this may tell us something about how you use our services.

1.3. From documents that are available to the public, such as the electoral register.

1.4. From third parties to whom you have provided information with your consent to pass it on to other organisations or persons.

2. Using Your Personal Information

2.1. Personal Data about our customers is an important part of our business, and we shall only use your Personal Data for the following purposes and shall not keep such Personal Data longer than is necessary to fulfil these purposes:

- To help us to identify you when you contact us.
- To administer and contact you about improved administration of any accounts, services, and products we have provided before, do provide now, or will or may provide in the future.
- To carry out marketing analysis and customer profiling (including with transactional information), conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information.
- To help to prevent and detect fraud or loss.
- To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, visit, text, or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us and selected partners where you have expressly consented to us doing so.

2.2. We will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party except in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3. Protecting Information

We have strict security measures to protect Personal Data.

- We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
- We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information.

4. The Internet

If you communicate with us using the internet, we may occasionally email you about our services and products. You can also always send us an email at any time if you change your mind.

5. Links

The Website may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We exclude all liability for loss that you may incur when using these third-party websites.

6. Further Information

If you would like any more information or you have any comments about our Privacy Policy, please email us at info@cornerstonewebsites.co.uk or write to us at the address noted above.

This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.