GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is a European privacy law effective from May 25, 2018. The GDPR regulates how individuals and organisations may collect, use, and retain personal data.

What is considered "personal data"?
Under the GDPR, personal data is any information about a specific person. This broad definition includes not only traditional personal data—e.g., dates of birth, names, physical addresses, email addresses—but location data, biometric data, financial information, and much more.

What information do I collect?
When you submit a form on the contact page your name, email address and email communication is recorded.

Anonymous analytics information is also collected via cookies on our website. This includes a users date and time of visit, the IP address, the referrer, the browser version and operating system being used.

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. 

How do I use cookies?
A visit to this site may generate the following types of cookie:

• Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies
The first time you visit this site a browser cookie is generated. This lasts for 2 years unless you clear your cookies and is used to count the number of unique visitors to this website. In addition we also use an anonymous analytics cookie which tracks page visits. This cookie expires after 30 minutes.

How to control cookies
You can control or delete cookies at any time – for details, see the Information Commissioner's Office website. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Why do I collect this information?
Your name, email address and email communication (if you submit a form on the contact page) is collected purely in order to respond to your enquiry. I do not categorise this information, your information is not passed on to any other organisations and this information is viewed only by me, Tara Stannard, owner of PaperTara Design. I keep this information for varying time periods depending on the nature of any on-going relationship or communication.

Analytics information is kept for 7 days only and is used to assess how successful and user-friendly the site is. An individual cannot be identified from this information alone and I do not use this information in conjunction with any other information to identify an individual. This information is not exported to any other service.

Third parties
I do not directly pass any information on to third parties. This website however does use third party services which are subject to their own privacy and cookies policies. Please see below a list of these organisations with links to their privacy policies.

• Squarespace

Right to amend or delete information
Should you, having contacted me via the form on this website, wish for me to amend or delete your information please contact me and I will deal with your request within 30 days. 

More information
For more information on GDPR and your individual rights please see the Information Commissioner's Office website.