Privacy & Cookies

Data Privacy Statement

1. Personal data

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’).

2. Data Controller

James Peter Cooper is the data controller (contact details below). This means I decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?

I comply with my obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use personal data for the following purposes:

• to reply to any questions asked by contact made through the website (i.e. by the contact form);
• to allow me to follow up through media interviews, etc.;

I use a third party provider, Cognito Forms, to process the contact form on this website. For more information, please see the privacy notice at https://www.cognitoforms.com/legal/privacy. The information is stored in a secure and encrypted manner.

I use a third party provider, DuckDuckGo, for the search results on this website. For more information, please see the privacy notice at https://duckduckgo.com/privacy. DuckDuckGo do not track you or save or share any data about their searches. (I use them as my search engine!)

I may pass your information to third party service providers who we have engaged for the purpose of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf. I disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service.

I have verified that these third party services are GDPR compliant (or are working towards GDPR compliance).

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

• Contractual necessity so that we can reply to you;
• Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations to your work/contract with us.

5. Sharing personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. I will only share your data with third parties with your consent.

6. How long do we keep data?

I keep data for as long as I need to be able to contact you to reply to any questions.

7. Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• The right to request a copy of the personal data which JPC-DESIGN holds about you;
• The right to request that JPC-DESIGN corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
• The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for JPC-DESIGN to retain such data;
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
• The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
• The right to object to the processing of personal data;
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

8. Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

9. Contact Details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please, in the first instance, contact James Cooper at james@jpc-design.com

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113, or via email via https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.

Cookies Policy

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.

To learn more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org. You will also find details on how to block and delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

The Cookies We Use

CloudFlare - This site is run over the CloudFlare service for extra security and speed. The 'cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic and to speed up page load times. These are necessary for the functioning of the site.

YouTube and Vimeo – If you play an embedded video on our site, there may a cookie set by YouTube or Vimeo containing anonymous, non personally-identifiable information about the number of playbacks of embedded videos. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. You can find out more on the Google Privacy Policy (Google owns YouTube): http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and the Vimeo Privacy Policy: http://vimeo.com/privacy

Contact Form - We use the Cognito Forms contact form service. They might set cookies which are necessary for their service to work. You can view the Cognito Privacy Policy for more information.

Sharing Tools - If you share the site using these services, third party websites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service (like Facebook or Twitter). We DO NOT control these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies.

Embedded Images from Getty - On some pages we use embedded images from Getty Images. These embeds may set a cookie to help Getty know where images are being used. We DO NOT control these cookies. You can view the Getty Images Privacy Policy for more information.

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the this website.

External Links

James Cooper is not responsible for the availability or content of external sites that may be linked to, from the site. If you find a broken link or if you have any questions or concerns about a link, please contact us.