Privacy Policy
This website is operated by Leighton Jacobs. I am committed to protecting and preserving your privacy when visiting my site or communicating electronically with me.
This policy sets out how I process any personal data I collect from you or that you provide to me through my website. I confirm that I will keep your information secure and that I will comply fully with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation and regulations. Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to me, or that I collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting leightonjacobs.com (my website) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
Legal Grounds
The legal basis for processing your data is to perform the translation or language services as requested, or “performance of a contract”. This may involve outsourcing your request to another translator or language services provider.
Types of information I may collect from you
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.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
· Information about your browser, network and device
· Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
· Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Cookies
This 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 functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
· Information about your browser, network, or device
· Your IP address
How I may use the information I collect
I collect, store and use your personal data in the following ways:
Information you supply to me.
I will use this information:
· to provide you with information and/or services that you request (for example, translation or language services)
· to provide quotes for services
· to comply with legal requirements.
Disclosure of your information
Any information you provide will either be emailed directly to me or may be stored on a secure server. I use a trusted third-party website and hosting provider (Squarespace.com) to facilitate the running and management of this website. Squarespace.com meet high data protection and security standards.
I do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies.
I make all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although I will do my best to protect your personal data, I cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to my site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once I have received your information, I will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Third party links
This site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the third-party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that I do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Third parties
Your text may be outsourced to another translator or language services provider. If your text contains any personal data, the outsourced translator or language services provider will handle and process your text in a manner compliant with GDPR.
For administrative purposes, other parties may have access to your personal data. These include:
· The website hosting service (Squarespace.com)
· Email hosting services (Microsoft)
All of these services are GDPR compliant or are self-certified under the US Privacy Shield framework.
Your rights – access to your personal data
You have the right to ensure that your personal data is being processed lawfully (“Subject Access Right”). Your subject access right can be exercised in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. Any subject access request must be made in writing to Leighton Jacobs. I will provide your personal data to you within the statutory time frames. To enable me to trace any of your personal data that I may be holding, I may need to request further information from you.
Retention/deletion of data
Your personal data will be retained for a period of 5 years. Please get in touch if you would like to have your data deleted sooner.
Please also get in touch if you would like a copy of the personal data that is being held about you, or to correct or delete any of this information.
Changes to this privacy policy
Any changes I may make to this privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be submitted using the contact form on this website.