Privacy and Cookies Policy

Privacy Policy

It is the policy of Cathyballard.com to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while visiting our website.

This policy sets out the basis on which Cathy Ballard will process any personal data collected from you, or which you provide to us, in the course of using our site www.cathyballard.com. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 we are the data controller.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.cathyballard.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion and when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

How your information is used

When you use our site we may collect data from you. By using the site, you consent to us processing and collecting this data, on the terms and for the reasons which are explained below.

We may use your information to:

- - send you our newsletters from time to time.
  - ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  - provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  - carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  - allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
  - notify you about changes to our service.

If you do not want us to use your information for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box on the form on which you submit your data. You can also contact us directly by emailing connect@cathyballard.com

If you do want to receive information from our carefully selected third parties about goods or services that may be of interest to you, please tick the relevant box on the form on which you submit your data.Please note that if you click on, or follow, any links from our site to external websites, our privacy policy will no longer apply. Please check the privacy policies of any such external site before submitting any personal data, as we cannot accept any responsibility or liability in relation to them.

Data Storage

We take your privacy very seriously, and will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data, but please be aware that any data which you send to our site is sent at your own risk.

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, processed and/or stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cathyballard.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Cathyballard.com’s sole discretion. Cathyballard.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cathyballard.com uses cookies to help Cathyballard.com identify and track visitors, their usage of Cathyballard.com website, and their website access preferences. Cathyballard.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Cathyballard.com may set and access Cookies on your computer. Third-party Cookies that may be placed on your computer are detailed in Schedule 1. All Cookies used by our web site are used in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as amended by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.

Cathyballard.com has carefully chosen these Cookies and uses them to facilitate certain functions and features of the Web Site. We also use Cookies for analytics purposes. These Cookies track your movements and activities on the web site and are designed to give us a better understanding of our users, thus enabling us to improve the web site and our services.

Certain features of our web site may depend upon Cookies to function and are deemed, within the law, to be strictly necessary. You will not be asked for your consent to place these Cookies however you may still disable cookies via your web browser’s settings.

You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your web browser. By default, your browser will accept Cookies, however this can be altered. For further details please consult the help menu in your browser. Disabling Cookies may prevent you from using the full range of Services available on the web site.

You may delete Cookies at any time; however you may lose any information that enables you to access the web site more quickly.

The web site uses the third-party Cookies detailed in Schedule 1 for the purposes described therein. These Cookies are not integral to the services provided by the Web Site to you and may be blocked at your choosing via your internet browser’s privacy settings or via your response to the request for consent.

It is recommended that you ensure that your internet browser is up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your browser if you are unsure as to how to adjust your privacy settings.

Schedule 1

Name Of Cookie	Provider Name	Purpose
_utma_utmb_utmc _utmz _ULS (Session Cookie)PREF NID HSID SSID APISID SAPISID SID	Google Analytics	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. More information can be found by visiting http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/
__ar_v4FML__utma_ _utmz SIDHSIDPREF	You Tube	Occasionally we may add videos to our website which are hosted on You Tube and this may result in You Tube setting cookies on your computer, these are harmless and more information can be found by visiting http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/