PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction:

At Maria Rush we are committed to protecting the privacy of any data collected, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), of our website and service users.

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1. The type of personal data we collect about you:

We currently collect, store, and process the following information:

• Identity information including name

• Contact information including address and email address

• Payment information including purchase history

• User profile information

• Technical information including your IP address, how and for how long you use our website

 

2. How we use your personal data

The personal information we process is provided to us directly by you and is used for our legitimate interest to:

• communicate with you and for you to access free material such as newsletters and guides

• administering our website and business, ensuring relevant content is provided 

• receive, manage, and deliver our service or product to you

• collect payment for our services and products (we never have access to your bank card details as our payments go through the external provider Stripe)

• manage and improve our website, product/service, to handle your queries and feedback 

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With your permission and opt-in consent we may use your personal data for marketing purposes, including news and offers of our services and products.  You can opt-out at any time by following our marketing unsubscribe links.

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3. How we share your personal information

We will not share your personal information with external third parties, subject to the following exceptions. 

We may have to share your personal data with IT and system administration service providers we use:

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• Wix to host our online platform, online programmes and products, booking calendar, creating and sending marketing emails to individuals who have opted-in to receive them.  We are not responsible for Wix or how they collect, store, or transfer your information.
  Please contact Wix for their Privacy Policy. 

• Stripe to collect payment for our services and products. We will not collect or store your payment card details as this information goes straight to Stripe.  We are not responsible for Stripe or how they collect, store, or transfer your information. 
  Please contact Stripe for their Privacy Policy.

 

4. How we store your personal information

The security of your personal data is essential to us:

• only employees and those with a legitimate need to know have access to your personal information. 

• the information you input on our site is secured by SSL (secure socket layer)

• sensitive bank card data is never handled by us but directly by Stripe

 

We may use external third parties to provide systems and support which involves them processing, storing, and transferring the personal data, using storage which is based outside the UK.  By providing any information to us, including personal data, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing. For example, we use:

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• Wix to host our online platform, online programmes and products, booking calendar, creating and sending marketing emails to individuals who have opted-in to receive them.  We are not responsible for Wix or how they collect, store, or transfer your information.
  Please contact Wix for their Privacy Policy. 

• Stripe to collect payment for our services and products. We will not collect or store your payment card details as this information goes straight to Stripe.  We are not responsible for Stripe or how they collect, store, or transfer your information. 
  Please contact Stripe for their Privacy Policy.

• A number of podcast platforms.
  Please check to each platforms Privacy Policy before using.

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​5. Data retention:

To comply with our legal and business obligations, personal data will not be kept longer than necessary for those purposes.

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6. Your data protection rights:

In certain cases, under data protection law, you have rights including:

a) to ask us for copies of your personal information.

b) to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

c) to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

d to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

e) to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

f) to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

 

 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact Maria Rush on hello@mariarush.co.uk as we'd like an opportunity to resolve this with you.

If you're still unhappy, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). ​

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15th October 2024