Last updated: 22/05/23

When and how do we collect information from you? 

We collect personal data as volunteered by you in the legitimate interests of contracting services when you email us. However, you can access our web site without disclosing any of your personal data.

We will also ask for consent for data processing where appropriate and will inform you of how we intend to manage it and what measures we will take to ensure its security.

We will not use this personal data for other purposes without asking your permission. We will not keep this information for longer than necessary. We will not use third parties to process your data. We will never sell your data to third parties.

Personal data that we collect by contracting services is stored until you ask us to delete it, which you can do by emailing hello@deedsandwords.co.uk.

Cookies

Like most websites, we use cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files which are placed on your computer or other devices (such as smartphones or tablets) as you browse this website. They are used to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses our website.

This Squarespace website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics (GA) to see how people use our website. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. We send a partial record of your IP address to GA with the last few characters or “octet” removed, this prevents us or Google from knowing your exact location.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

Third party content - (videos, podcasts etc.)
We embed content from third parties such as YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter and SoundCloud. These providers will set their own cookies, which we do not control or have access to. These cookies are primarily used to:

• To track how many people are using the content that they are hosting. 

• To prevent misuse of their platform.

• To easily connect it to any existing account you may have set up with that platform independently of this site.

• To get more information about the cookies that they use, please visit their respective privacy policy pages. If you do have cookies disabled in your browser, you may notice that some of the features of these services won’t work as expected.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

On that note, we’re very grateful to www.doteveryone.org.uk for providing an excellent privacy policy to inspire us in the creation of this one. 

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform you of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Your rights

Because Deeds and Words is based in the UK, you have rights over the data that we collect. You can:

• ask for a copy of data we have collected about you

• ask us to update that data

• ask us to delete it

• ask us to stop using it

If you ask for a copy of data we have about you, we will usually provide it free of charge. You can ask us to send it directly to a third party. We have to provide it in a commonly-used machine-readable format.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us on hello@deedsandwords.co.uk or write to:

Unit 4.8

The Green House

244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd

London

E2 9DA

If you need to see the information we hold about you, please get in touch. We may need to withhold such information according to UK law.

Please tell us if you have concerns about how we collect, use or share data about you. You can also raise your concerns with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.