Matt Lindley ("we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our website www.matt-lindley.com.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following personal data:

• Information you provide: such as your name, email address, phone number, or other details you enter into forms on our site.

• Technical data: including your IP address, browser type, operating system, network, and device details.

• Website usage data: including pages visited, clicks, searches, internal links, scrolling, timestamps, and referral websites.

• Cookies and tracking technologies: see Section 3 below.

• Fonts: when fonts are served from third-party providers (Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts), they may receive information about your browser, device, page views, and IP address.
  

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal data to:

• Provide and manage our website and services.

• Respond to enquiries or requests you send us (e.g. via contact forms).

• Analyse traffic and activity on our website using analytics tools.

• Ensure website security and performance.

• Comply with legal obligations.
  

3. Cookies and Analytics

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.

Necessary cookies: always active, required for Squarespace (our hosting platform) to securely serve this website.

Analytics and performance cookies: used only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. These cookies help us view site traffic, activity, and usage data.

Analytics data we collect may include:

• Information about your browser, network, and device.

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this site.

• Pages you view, clicks, internal links, searches, scrolling, and timestamps.

• Your IP address.

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting and analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Squarespace analyses this data in a de-personalised form.

4. Contact Form Submissions

When you submit information to this website via a form, we collect the data requested in order to track and respond to your submission.

We share this information with Squarespace, which provides hosting services for our site.

5. Fonts

This website uses Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts to display typography. These services may collect:

• Information about your browser, network, or device.

• Details about this site and the page you’re viewing.

• Your IP address.
  

6. Legal Bases for Processing

We process personal data under the following legal bases:

• Consent: where you have given permission (e.g., analytics cookies).

• Contract: where processing is necessary to provide the services you request.

• Legal obligation: where required by law.

• Legitimate interests: where processing is necessary for our business (e.g., website security and improvement) and your rights are not overridden.
  

7. Sharing Your Information

We do not sell your data. We may share your data with:

• Service providers (e.g., Squarespace, Google, Adobe) who help us operate our website.

• Regulators, law enforcement, or legal advisers where required by law.
  

8. Data Retention

We keep your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this policy or to comply with legal requirements.

9. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you.

• Request correction or deletion of your data.

• Object to or restrict processing.

• Withdraw consent (where processing is based on consent).

• Lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
  

10. Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse, or unauthorised access.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact:

Matt Lindley
18 Regents Street
Nottingham
NG1 5BQ

matt@matt-lindley.com
+447977006769