Protecting your personal information is important. Here is how we do it.

How we use your information

This Privacy Notice tells you what will happen to any personal data that you provide to us as a result of using this website. We use the data you provide via the website to communicate with you (when responding to your enquiries), monitor website trends (we use Google Analytics to monitor how the website is being used), and operate our business more effectively (we may seek feedback).

Paul Cook is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

We may change this notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure you are happy with any changes.

We do not trade personal data for commercial purposes. We will only disclose it if required by law, where necessary to arrange your event attendance, or where applicable with your consent.

To contact Paul Cook with a data protection query regarding processing your personal data, please use the contact form on this website. Planet Planit Ltd is the trading name of Paul Cook.

Visitors to our website

When someone visits Paul Cook we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Squarespace

We use a third party service, Squarespace, to publish our website at the https://www.paulcookstoryteller.com/

We use a standard Squarespace service to collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the site, for example the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it. For more information about how Squarespace processes data, please see the Squarespace privacy notice.

Your Rights

As an individual whose personal data is processed by Paul Cook, you have:

the right to be informed – which is what this privacy notice is for

the right to access the data we hold about you

the right to object to direct marketing – either use the ‘unsubscribe’ button on our emails or contact us directly

the right to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests

the right to erasure (in some circumstances)

the right of data portability

the right to have your data rectified if its inaccurate

the right to have your data restricted or blocked from processing

To exercise any of these rights, please use the Contact form on this page to get in touch.

Complaints or Queries

We take any complaints we receive very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate.

This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you can contact us with the form on this page or use the mailing address below.

Access to Personal Information

Paul Cook seeks to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a “subject access request”. If we do hold information about you we will:

give you a description of it;

tell you why we are holding it;

tell you who it could be disclosed to; and

let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

To make a request to Paul Cook for any personal information we may hold you need to put the request in writing to the address provided below.

Links to Other Websites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 04th April

2024.

How to Contact Us

If you want to request information about our privacy policy you can write to us at:

Planet Planit Ltd), 86 Hunters Way, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 2BB, England.