INTRODUCTION

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as

to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell

you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how Meg Lyons Coaching collects and processes your personal

data through your use of this website and your interactions with us, including any data you may provide through this

website when you sign up to our newsletter, sign up for our free or paid services or offerings, or take part in a

competition.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy policy or notice we may provide on

specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how

and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other policies or notices and is not intended to

override them.

CONTROLLER

Meg Lyons Coaching is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Meg Lyons

Coaching”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy).

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this Privacy

Policy. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please

contact the data privacy manager using the details set out below.

CONTACT DETAILS

Our contact details are set out in table 1 below:

Table 1

Full name of legal entity: Meg Lyons Coaching

Name or title of data privacy manager: Meg Lyons

Email address: meg@meglyons.com

Postal address: London, UK

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK

supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal

with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

This version was last updated on July 22, 2024.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your

personal data changes during your relationship with us.

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling

those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party

websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to

read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be

identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together

in table 2 below:

Table 2

Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier

Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers

Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details

Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and

services you have purchased from us

Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time

zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and

platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website

Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests,

preferences, feedback and survey responses

Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services

Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your

communication preferences

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated

Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly

or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users

accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so

that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in

accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity,

religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information

about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and

offences.

IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to

provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into

with you (for example, to provide you with products or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or

service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, as set out in table 3 below:

Table 3

Direct interactions You may give us your Identity, Contact, Financial,

Transaction, Profile and Marketing and Communications

Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by

post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal

data you provide when you:

• apply for or purchase our products or services;

• sign up for free services or offerings;

• subscribe to our service or publications;

• request marketing to be sent to you;

• enter a competition, promotion or survey; or

• give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions As you interact with our website, we may automatically

collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by

using cookies and other similar technologies. [We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other

websites employing our cookies.] We use Squarespace and adhere to their cookie policy: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below

• Technical Data from the following parties:

(a) analytics providers [such as Google];

(b) advertising networks; and

• Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services [such as Stripe].

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in

the following circumstances:

• where you have consented for us to do so;

• where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you;

• where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental

rights do not override those interests;

• where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

See table 4 below to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We have set out below in table 4 descriptions of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the

legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Please note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific

purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us via email at meg@meglyons.com or via the Contact page

https://www.meglyons.com/contact on our website if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying

on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in table 4 below:

Table 4

Purpose/Activity

Type of data

Lawful basis for processing including basis of

legitimate interest

To register you as a new customer.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

Performance of a contract with you.

To provide our free or paid services

or offerings.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Profile

(e) Usage

(f) Marketing and

Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you.

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

study how customers use our

products/services, to develop them, to grow

our business and to inform our marketing

strategy).

To process and deliver your order

including:

(a) manage payments, fees and

charges;

(b) collect and recover money owed

to us.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Transaction

(e) Marketing and

Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you.

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

recover debts due to us).

To manage our relationship with you

which will include:

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(a) Performance of a contract with you.

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal

(a) notifying you about changes to

our Terms or Privacy Policy;

(b) asking you to leave a review or

take a survey.

(d) Marketing and

Communications

obligation.

keep our records updated and to study how

customers use our products/services).

To enable you to partake in a prize

draw, competition or complete a

survey.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and

Communications

(a) Performance of a contract with you.

(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

study how customers use our

products/services, to develop them and grow

our business).

To administer and protect our

business and this website (including

troubleshooting, data analysis, testing,

system maintenance, support,

reporting and hosting of data).

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for

running our business, provision of

administration and IT services, network

security, to prevent fraud and in the context

of a business reorganisation or group

restructuring exercise).

(b) Necessary to comply with a legal

obligation.

To deliver relevant website content

and advertisements to you and

measure or understand the

effectiveness of the advertising we

serve to you.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Marketing and

Communications

(f) Technical

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

study how customers use our

products/services, to develop them, to grow

our business and to inform our marketing

strategy).

To use data analytics to improve our

website, products/services, marketing,

customer relationships and

experiences.

(a) Technical

(b) Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

define types of customers for our

products/services, to keep our website

updated and relevant, to develop our

business and to inform our marketing

strategy).

To make suggestions and

recommendations to you about

products/services that may be of

interest to you.

(a) Identity

(b) Contact

(d) Usage

(e) Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to

develop our products/services and grow our

business).

MARKETING

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS FROM US

We may use your [Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data] to form a view on what we think you may

want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be

relevant for you (we call this marketing).

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased products

or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a

promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

THIRD-PARTY MARKETING

We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company for marketing purposes.

OPTING OUT

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by:

• by following the opt-out or “unsubscribe” links on any marketing message sent to you; or

• by contacting us via email at meg@meglyons.com or via the Contact page https://www.meglyons.com/contact

on our website at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a

result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function

properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy, which is available here: we

use Squarespace to inform our cookie policy: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy].

CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that

we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an

explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us

via email at meg@meglyons.com or via the Contact page https://www.meglyons.com/contact on our website.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis

which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the

above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out in table 5 below for the purposes set out in the

table in paragraph 4 above.

Table 5

Third Party

Purpose of disclosure

Link to Third Party Privacy Policy

Squarespace To send email communications and

manage email subscriber lists

https://www.squarespace.com/privacy

Stripe To collect payment for services https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

PayPal To collect payment for services https://www.paypal.com/uk/legalhub/privacyfull

We may also share your personal data with service providers who we engage to work with our business, including

but not limited to those providing IT support, administrative support, and professional advice such as legal and financial

advisers.

We may also share your personal data with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of

our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change

happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy

Policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit

them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Some of our external third parties (such as Squarespace for website hosting) are based outside of the UK so their

processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside of the UK.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by

ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission

which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission:

Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.

Please contact us via email at meg@meglyons.com or via the Contact page https://www.meglyons.com/contact on our

website if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data

out of the UK.

7. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used

or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those

employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your

personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any

applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. DATA RETENTION

HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for

the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of

the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes

for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the

applicable legal requirements.

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction

Data) for six (6) years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see clause 1.9.3 below regarding Request erasure below

for further information.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for

research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please see

below to find out more about these rights:

9.1. Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables

you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing

it.

9.2. Request correction of your personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete

or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data

you provide to us.

9.3. Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where

there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove

your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see clause 9.4

below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your

personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your

request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your

request.

9.4. Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third

party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing

on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to

object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may

demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your

rights and freedoms.

9.5. Request restriction of processing your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing

of your personal data in the following scenarios:

(a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;

(b) where our use of the data is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase it;

or defend legal claims; or

(d) you have objected to our use of your data, but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate

grounds to use it.

9.6. Request transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party

you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note

that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or

where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

9.7. Right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will

advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us via email at meg@meglyons.com or via the

Contact page https://www.meglyons.com/contact on our website.

NO FEE USUALLY REQUIRED

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may

charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to

comply with your request in these circumstances.

WHAT WE MAY NEED FROM YOU

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to

access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal

data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further

information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

TIME LIMIT TO RESPOND

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month from receiving the request from you. Occasionally it

may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In

this case, we will notify you and keep you updated on expected timeframes.

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