Privacy & Cookies

We take our data protection obligations seriously. This privacy notice describes the type of personal information we hold, why we hold it and what we do with it.

Information that we hold

We can only keep and use information for specific reasons set out in law. If we want to keep and use information about you, we can only do so in particular circumstances. Below, we describe the information we hold and why, and the lawful basis for collecting and using it.

Contact details

We hold personal information about you including your name and email address, which are provided by you when you use our contact form. This information allows us to reply to your comments and questions. We also retain the content of your messages in an archive. We do not use your contact information to send unsolicited updates or other communications, and we do not share your contact details with any third parties.

Keeping your information safe

Your personal information is stored securely on our Wix dashboard Inbox and nowhere else. Only Lynne Rickards Author has access to this through a secure password. We understand our legal responsibility to maintain confidentiality and follow strict procedures to ensure this. At your request, we will delete your contact details and messages from the Wix website dashboard.

Access to your information and other rights

You have a right to access the information that we hold about you and to receive a copy. We will not charge you for copies of your information. You can also request us to correct any information that you believe is inaccurate or incomplete, or delete your information from the Wix dashboard Inbox. Requests of this kind can be made via the contact form on Lynne Rickards Author.

Cookie Policy

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to that site. The only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself (such as a username and password where those are required). A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites.

What are cookies used for?

Cookies help us identify your device and the performance of typical actions on this website. We use strictly necessary and functional cookies to enable you to move around the site and to provide basic features. Tracking and performance cookies are used to provide a better overall user experience. Below are the type of cookies present on our website:

Strictly necessary cookies

Some cookies are strictly necessary in enabling you to move around this website and use its most basic features. These essential cookies cannot be disabled.

Tracking and other optional cookies

We use performance and tracking cookies internally to enable us to provide you with a better user experience. Information supplied by these cookies helps us understand how our visitors behave on this website, the time they spend on the site and which pages they view. It also gives us general information about the country visitors are from and their method for finding this website (direct, via a search engine or using a link on a different site). All this information is anonymised and provides us with a better understanding of our website’s strengths and weaknesses.

Refusing cookies

If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser (Google Chrome, Apple Safari or your own default browser) to warn you before accepting cookies. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser.