privacy policy

Salt Studio operates http://www.saltstudio.co/ (the 'Site'). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1.0  OUR CORE BELIEFS REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

• User privacy and data protection are human rights.
• We have a duty of care to the people within our data.
• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary.
• We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.

2.0  RELEVANT LEGISLATION
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‍Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

• UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA).
• EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD).
• EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR).

‍This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found in section 9.0) for clarification.

3.0  PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
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‍This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

‍3.1  Site visitation tracking
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‍Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
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Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third-party data processor (see section 6.0 below).

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.jsimplementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect information (already held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it.

‍3.2  Our website
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‍If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before supplying any personal information on the Salt Studio website.

‍3.3  Contact forms and email links

‍Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Home page or Contact page, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website, instead the data will be automatically entered into our website form system Webflow.

‍4.0   HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
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‍As detailed in section 3.2 above, if you submit your information to the Salt Studio website via any post published on this website no personal information will be stored within this website’s database. It will, however, will be automatically entered into Webflow, our website form system. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored by Salt Studio via our website. The personal data will be deleted every six months, in accordance with GDPR policies.

‍5.0  ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

‍This website is hosted by Webflow within and information about hosting can be found here. Some of the data centre’s more notable security features are as follows:

• Protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
• Webflow provides SSL certificates for all sites hosted in Webflow.

Full details of Webflow’s data centre can be found here. All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

‍6.0  OUR THIRD-PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

‍We use two third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0. These third parties are based in the UK and USA and the links through to their privacy policies are available below:

• Google (Privacy policy)
• Webflow (Privacy policy)

7.0  SECURITY AND DATA BREACHES

‍The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Should there be any breach of your personal data, we will inform you within 72 hours of knowing of it. We strive to ensure your personal information is protected at all times.

‍8.0  DATA CONTROLLER

‍The data controller of this website is:
Salt Studio

Whose registered office is:
86-90 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NE

‍9.0  DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

‍Mrs Laura Harding
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3951 7220
Email: info@saltstudio.co

‍10.0  CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

‍This privacy policy may change from time to time in-line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the changelog below. 

‍10.1  Changelog