1. Introduction
I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how I handle your personal information when you visit my website and use my contact form.
2. Who I Am
I am Jacob Partington, trading as Jacob Partington Automotive Historian. I am the Data Controller for the information collected on this website. You can contact me directly regarding your data at jpartington@autohistorian.com.
3. The Data I Collect
I only collect personal data that you voluntarily provide through my website contact form. This typically includes your name, surname, email address, and any information you choose to include in the subject box or message box.
4. How I Use Your Data
I use your contact details to communicate with you and manage our working relationship. Specifically, I will use your email address to:
Reply to your initial inquiry, discuss my services and provide quotes.
Provide ongoing updates, files, and progress reports regarding the work I am doing for you.
Send invoices and requests for payment once work is completed or milestones are met.
I do not use your details for marketing lists, nor do I sell or pass your data to third parties.
5. Third-Party Services
My email correspondence is hosted through Google (Gmail). When you email me, your data is stored on Google's secure servers for the purpose of our communication.
6. Data Retention
I retain email correspondence resulting from your enquiry for as long as is necessary to manage our business relationship or to comply with standard business record-keeping requirements.
7. Your Rights
Under data protection laws, you have the right to request a copy of the personal information I hold about you, or to ask me to delete it. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact me at jpartington@autohistorian.com.
Squarespace
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
Cookies
This website is hosted by Squarespace. While many websites use cookies to track user behaviour, run analytics, or target advertisements, I have disabled those features. I do not deploy any marketing, profiling, or non-essential performance cookies on your device.
My site only uses strictly necessary (functional) cookies. These baseline technologies are automated by our hosting provider and are required for core infrastructure operations. You can read about Squarespace’s necessary and required cookies here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses
Because these cookies are structurally necessary to securely display the website to you, they cannot be turned off. By continuing to use this website, you acknowledge that these functional baseline technologies will be dropped temporarily during your session.