Effective Date: 29.05.2025
Welcome to digi-angels (https://digi-angels.co.uk/). We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our website.
1. Who We Are
Data Controller:
Digi Angels
Website: https://digi-angels.co.uk/
Email: info@digi-angels.co.uk
As the Data Controller, we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal data.
2. Legal Basis for Processing Your Data
Under the UK GDPR, we process your personal data only when we have a legal basis to do so. These include:
- Consent – When you have given clear permission for us to process your data (e.g., accepting cookies).
- Contract – When processing is necessary for a contract with you.
- Legal Obligation – When we must comply with the law.
- Legitimate Interests – When processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, provided your rights and freedoms are not overridden.
3. What Data We Collect
When you visit our website, we may collect:
- Technical data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and pages visited.
- Cookie data to help the website function effectively and enhance your user experience.
We do not collect sensitive personal data through our website.
4. Cookies We Use
We only use essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website. Here’s a breakdown:
- wordpress_test_cookie
Used by WordPress to test if your browser accepts cookies.
Plain English: It checks if your browser can handle cookies. It doesn’t store personal info and is deleted when you close your browser. - wp_lang
Stores your language preference for viewing the site.
Plain English: It remembers what language you prefer the site to be in.
These cookies do not track your activity or store personal data beyond their immediate purpose.
You can control and manage cookies via your browser settings. For more information, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. How We Use Your Data
We process your personal data to:
- Operate and maintain our website
- Ensure technical functionality and security
- Respond to direct inquiries if you contact us
We do not use your data for profiling, advertising, or automated decision-making.
6. Data Retention
We only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
7. Your Data Protection Rights (under UK GDPR)
You have the right to:
- Access – Request a copy of your personal data.
- Rectification – Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Erasure – Ask us to delete your data (“right to be forgotten”).
- Restriction – Request we limit how we process your data.
- Data portability – Receive your data in a structured, commonly used format.
- Object – Object to how we process your data where the basis is our legitimate interest.
You also have the right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on your consent.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@digi-angels.co.uk.
If you are not satisfied with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):
https://ico.org.uk/
8. Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
9. Third-Party Access
We do not sell, share, or transfer your data to third parties unless required by law or necessary to provide our services securely (e.g., hosting providers bound by confidentiality and security obligations).
10. Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page, with the date of the latest revision clearly indicated.
11. Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or your data, please contact us at:
Email: info@digi-angels.co.uk
Address: 15–17 Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL