Thank you for your interest in my Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to my website Spiritual Arts Association, priestessothelight.com which is operated by me, Katherine Evans, Unit 137476, PO Box 7169, Poole, BH15 9EL, as the data controller, and the third parties I use to provide the website ("we", "us", "our"). If you have any questions about this policy or our data protection practices, please contact me using contactkatherineevans@gmail.com

 

BACKGROUND

This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices in plain language, keeping legal and technical jargon to a minimum to ensure that you understand the information provided. However, to achieve this goal, I would like to explain the following three terms.

 

What is personal data?

Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living individual. Various information that, taken together, can lead to the identification of a specific person also constitutes personal data.

 

What is Special Category Data?

Special category data is Personal Data that needs more protection because it is sensitive. This includes Personal Data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data. As well as, data concerning health, a person’s sex life; and a person’s sexual orientation. In order to lawfully process Special Category Data, it is necessary to consent to the processing.

 

What is processing?

"Processing" means and includes virtually any handling of data.

 

Which law applies?

I am the data controller in accordance with the UK's Data Protection Act (“DPA”) and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

 

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Purpose and legal basis of processing

In accordance with the DPA and the GDPR, we need both a purpose and a legal basis for processing personal data. The purposes are:

 

• the provision of the website and its functions and content,

• responding to contact requests and communicating with my followers and website users,

• providing my services and, in particular, my coachings, readings, blog, reviews and articles ("Services"); and

• Safety measures.

 

Of course, we can only do so if we have at least one of the following legal bases or, in other words, lawful reasons for doing so. Unless specifically described below, we usually link the above purposes to one of the following:

 

• Consent,

• to provide my services and fulfil my contractual obligations,

• to fulfil my legal obligations, and

• to protect my and our legitimate interests.

 

Security

My website uses SSL or TLS encryption to ensure the security of data processing and to protect the transmission of confidential content, login data or contact requests that you send to us. In addition, we have taken numerous security measures ("technical and organisational measures"), such as encryption or "need to know" access, to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through my website.

 

Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can always have security vulnerabilities, so that absolute protection cannot be guaranteed. With this in mind, databases or records containing personal data may be breached inadvertently or through unlawful intrusion. As soon as I become aware of a data breach, I will notify all affected individuals whose personal data may have been compromised as soon as possible after the breach is discovered.

 

Retention and storage

I will retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary in connection with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Minors

I do not solicit Personal Data from minors and children and do not knowingly collect or disclose such information to third parties.

 

Automated decision making

Automated decision-making, including profiling, does not take place.

 

Do Not Sell

I do not sell your Personal Data.

 

Data of a special category

I do not process data of a special category unless this is explicitly required for a specific service and consent has been given.

 

International transmission

In the course of operating my website, we process data. Normally, we do not transfer personal data to countries outside the UK and the EEA. However, when we do, I ensure that the processing of your personal data is governed by processing agreements that include standard contractual clauses for a high level of data protection.

 

Disclosure and disclosure

We will not disclose or otherwise distribute your Personal Data to third parties unless a) necessary to provide my services, b) you have consented to the disclosure, c) or if we are required to do so by law, such as a court order, or to assist in a criminal or legal investigation or other legal proceeding, whether domestic or foreign, or to serve our legitimate interests.

 

COOKIES

We use so-called cookies on our website. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to your web browser and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage. As set out in the UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”) and the EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”), we need to obtain consent for the use of Non-essential Cookies. For further information on the cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy. The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

 

Cookie consent

Our website uses a cookie consent tool, to obtain your consent to the storage of cookies and to document this consent. When you enter our website, the following Personal Data is transferred to us: i) Your consent(s) or revocation of your consent(s); ii) Your IP address; iii) Information about your browser; iv) Information about your device; v) Time of your visit to our website. The basis for processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

 

DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING

Log files

When you call up and use my website, I collect the Personal Data that your browser automatically transmits to my web host`s server. This is technically necessary for the display of my website and to ensure its stability and security. In this sense, we collect the following data: i) IP address of the requesting computer, ii) Date and time of access, iii) name and URL of the file accessed, iv) website from which the access was made (referrer URL), v) browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider. The legal basis is our legitimate interest.

 

Hosting

The hosting services used for the purpose of operating my website is Wix.com LTD. In doing so Wix, processes inventory data, contact data, content data, usage data, meta data and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors of my website, on the basis of my legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of my website in conjunction with the provision of contractual services and the conclusion of the contract for my services.

 

Content Management System

I also use the Content Management System (CMS) of Wix, to publish and maintain the created and edited content and texts on my website. This means that all content and texts submitted to my website is transferred to Wix. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest.

 

Economic analyses and market research

For business reasons, we analyse the data we have on web and server traffic patterns, website interactions, browsing behaviour etc. The analyses serve us alone and are not disclosed externally and processed using anonymous analyses with summarised and or anonymized values. For this purpose we use Google Analytics and Wix Analytics. The legal basis is our legitimate interest and your consent. For further information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

 

reCAPTCHA

We also use Google`s reCAPTCHA from Google LLC to check whether data input is made by a human being or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitor on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. The legal basis for using reCAPTCHA is our legitimate interest.

 

YouTube Videos

We have integrated videos from YouTube. The integration requires that YouTube can perceive the IP address of the user. The IP address is required in order to send the video content to the user's browser. If you click on a YouTube video on our website, your internet browser will be prompted to download a corresponding representation of the video and also places certain cookies. In this way, YouTube knows which specific sub-pages you have visited. The legal basis for the data processing is our legitimate interest and your consent.

 

Contact

If you contact me, your transmitted Personal Data (typically your email address, name, the content of your message and IP address) will be automatically stored in order to process the request or to respond to you. The data processing for the purpose of contacting me is based on your voluntarily given consent or the initiation of a contractual service.

 

Working with me (Provision of contractual services)

I process inventory data (e.g., names and addresses as well as contact data of users), contract data (e.g., services used, names of contact persons, payment information) for the purpose of fulfilling my contractual obligations and coaching services. When requesting my reading services, it is necessary, among other things, to provide your name, some special category data, and other details. I process and store the personal data provided when you request my services solely for the purpose of providing you with the ordered service. Accordingly, the data is processed on the basis of fulfilling my contractual obligations as well as to fulfil my legal obligations.

 

Meetings

I typically conduct meetings via the phone or via Zoom. When using Zoom various types of data are processed. The scope of the data depends on the information you provide before or during the online meeting. The processing bases are your consent as well as our legitimate interest.

 

Administration and financial accounting

I process data in the context of administrative tasks as well as the organisation of my business and compliance with legal obligations, such as archiving. In this context, I process the same data that I process in the course of providing my services. The processing bases are my legal obligations and my legitimate interest.

 

When using our membership services

We process the data of our members in order to be able to provide our contractual services as well as to ensure the security of our services and to be able to develop it further. This includes in particular our support, correspondence with you, invoicing, fulfilment of our accounting and tax obligations. Accordingly, the data is processed on the basis of fulfilling my contractual obligations as well as to fulfil my legal obligations.

 

Comments and contributions in my blog

When you leave comments in my blog, you may display certain Personal Data, share certain details, engage with others, exchange knowledge and insights, post and view relevant content. Before publishing your comment, you are required to create an account using your name and email address or via connect functions from Google or Facebook. When registering via a connect function, you agree to Google or Facebook's terms and conditions, as applicable, and consent to certain data from your Google or Facebook account being transferred to us. This is done for our security in case someone leaves unlawful content in comments. The legal basis is our legitimate interest and your consent.

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

General

We are present on social media (currently, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube (Google LLC), TikTok, and X) and if you contact or connect with us via social media websites, we and the relevant social media website are jointly responsible for the processing of your data and enter into a so-called joint controller agreement. The legal basis is our legitimate interest, your consent or, in some cases, the initiation of a contract.

 

When you visit our profiles and interact with us and others

When you visit our social media profiles, we, as the operator of the profile, process your actions and interactions with our profile (e.g., the content of your messages, enquiries, posts or comments that you send to us or leave on our profile or when you like or share our posts) as well as your publicly viewable profile data (e.g., your name and profile picture).

 

Which Personal Data from your profile is publicly viewable depends on your profile settings, which you can adjust yourself in the settings of your social media account.

 

Please take care not to transmit or share sensitive data or confidential information (e.g., application documents, bank or payment data) via social media platforms; we recommend that you use a more secure means of transmission (e.g. e-mail).

 

MARKETING

General

Insofar as you have given us your separate consent to process your data for marketing and advertising purposes, we are entitled to contact you for these purposes via the communication channels you have given your consent to.

 

You may give us your consent in a number of ways including by selecting a box on a form where we seek your permission to send you marketing information, or sometimes your consent is implied from your interactions or contractual relationship with us. Where your consent is implied, it is on the basis that you would have a reasonable expectation of receiving a marketing communication based on your interactions or contractual relationship with us.

 

Direct Marketing generally takes the form of email but may also include other less traditional or emerging channels. These forms of contact will be managed by us, or by our contracted service providers. Every directly addressed marketing sent or made by us or on our behalf will include a means by which you may unsubscribe or opt out.

 

ADVERTISING

We would like to show you interesting advertising outside of our website and use various third-party tools and cookies for this purpose. These collect and process information about your activities on our website - for example, which products you are interested in or which pages you visit. By knowing what you are looking for and how you use our website, we can adapt our advertising to your needs. And thus increase the likelihood that you will also be shown suitable and interesting advertising outside our website.

 

We also analyse this data to evaluate the relevance of the advertisements and to optimise the advertisements for you. Through the tools, your browser regularly establishes a connection to the server of the tool provider when you visit our website. For some tools, we have no direct influence on what data is processed by the providers. The following Personal Data may be processed by third-party providers i) HTTP header information (e.g., IP address, web browser, website URL, date and time); ii) measuring pixel-specific data (e.g., pixel ID and cookie ID); and iii) additional information about visits to our website (e.g., orders placed, products clicked on). The legal bases for processing are our legitimate interest and your consent in case of cookies. For further information, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

 

YOUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES

Privacy rights

You may exercise the following rights:

 

• Right to information

• Right to rectification

• Right to object to processing

• Right to deletion

• Right to data portability

• Right to withdraw consent

• Right to complain to a supervisory authority

• Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing

 

If you have any questions, please contact us.

 

Update your data

If you believe that the information I hold about you is incorrect, or if you wish to correct or delete it, or object to the processing of your data, please contact me.

 

Withdrawal of your consent

You can revoke granted consents at any time by contacting me.

 

Access request

If you wish to make a request for access to your data, please contact me. I will respond to requests for access and correction as soon as possible. If I am unable to respond to your request within thirty (30) days, I will let you know why and when I will be able to respond to your request. If I am unable to provide you with Personal Data or make a correction you have requested, I will tell you why.

 

Complaint to a supervisory authority

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is the relevant authority in the UK. The ICO is located at Wycliffe House, Water Ln, Wilmslow SK9 5AF, UK (www.ico.org.uk). If you believe that the processing of your Personal Data is not lawful, you can lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO or any other supervisory authority.

 

CHANGES

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If I make changes or we materially change our use of your Personal Data, I will revise this Privacy Policy accordingly. This Privacy Policy was last updated on Thursday, 20th June 2024.

 

QUESTIONS

If you feel that the above is not sufficient or if you have any queries as regards the collection, processing or use of your information I`m looking forward to hearing from you. I will make every effort to reply as soon as possible and take into consideration any suggestions from your end.Thank you