Privacy Notice

I take the privacy of your data very seriously. Looking after your data is a key aspect of being a reputable and reliable freelancer as is respecting the privacy of your clients and their various media assets and copyrights.

This Privacy Notice (the Privacy Notice) describes the conditions under which I collect and processes personal data pertaining to the visitors (the Visitors) of my website, located at the following URL: www.editessence.com (the Website). This notice should be read alongside the website terms and conditions which may be found at www.editessence.com\terms_and_conditions

I do not collect personal data other than that which Visitors voluntarily provide on the Website (the Personal Data), either when they sign up for newsletters and blogs, complete online forms or send a contact request.

I am the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may contact me at enquiries@editessence.com

Personal Data collected on the Website will be processed for the following purposes:

Promote my work activities. If Visitors do not wish to receive communications sent under legitimate interest, they may unsubscribe at any time;
Communicate with the Visitors and provide them with the information requested;
Providing professional services to Visitors who provide their contact details and proceed to contract with me.

The processing of the Visitors’ Personal Data is necessary for me to provide them with the services they requested.

Who are the data recipients?

Visitors’ Personal Data will be processed me within the limits of their respective attributions.

They may also be communicated to third party data processors (including IT service providers) and external services providers such as web designers, marketing solutions providers, communication agencies, to the strictest extent necessary and subject to the existence of contractual guarantees to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data.

How do I ensure the security of Personal Data?

Visitors’ Personal Data will be processed by me as a data controller, in compliance with the applicable data protection legislation in the UK currently the Data Protection Act 2018 (local implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, – the GDPR -, which entered into force on 25 May 2018) as well as any other subsequent regulation enacted ).

I follow generally accepted security standards to help protect Visitors’ Personal Data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, I cannot guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Data.

Personal Data is kept for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or a period of three years from their collection or the last contact from the Visitor, whichever is shorter, unless the visitor requests that the data be deleted.

What are the Visitors’ rights?

In accordance with the current data protection legislation, the Visitor or, as the case may be, his beneficiaries who can prove they have a legitimate interest, are entitled to obtain, free of charge:

access to the personal data concerning the Visitor,
confirmation that the Visitor Personal Data is or is not being processed,
information concerning at least the purposes of the processing, the categories of data to which the processing relates and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data are communicated,
communication, in an intelligible form, of the data being processed, as well as any available information on the origin of the data.

The Visitor (or, as the case may be, his beneficiaries) also has a right to rectify his/her personal data and a right to object to the collect and processing of such data, on the basis of compelling legitimate grounds.

These rights may be exercised by an email addressed to the following address: enquiries@editessence.com. The Visitor will also be entitled to request the erasure of all or part of the data or a restriction of the processing, object to the processing or make use of its right to data portability, within the limits provided by the applicable rules. In the event of a breach of the data protection rules, the Visitor may also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

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Use of reCAPTCHA

We may use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. (Google) to protect your submissions via forms on this site or landing pages provided on other platforms such as Hubspot. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being accessed by spam bots. This plugin query includes the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service and the setting of a cookie so that other sites thank ours that use the reCAPTCHA service can recognise that you are not a bot. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided by reCaptcha from your browser shall not be merged with any other data from Google.

This data collection is subject to Google’s data protection policy. For more information, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en By using the reCAPTCHA service, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.