Privacy policy

Gunning Marketing Limited

Effective Date: April 2025

This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Gunning Marketing Limited:

It sets out our policy on the collection, use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website.

By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you don’t consent, please don’t access or use our website.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on our website. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted on our website, and your continued access or use after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend you periodically review this page.

Information we collect

We will collect and process the following personal information about you:

• Name
• Email
• IP address
• Browser details and site usage data (via cookies)

How we use your information

We will use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:

• Marketing/promotional
• Client feedback collection
• Support
• Communicating with you
• Improving our website and services (using low-risk analytics cookies)

If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we’ll ask you for consent. We’ll only use your information when we receive your consent – and then only for the purpose(s) for which you grant consent (unless we’re required to do otherwise by law).

How we share your information

We won’t transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:

• Analytics

We require that any such third parties only use the personal information we transfer to them for the purpose for which it was transferred, and that they not retain it for longer than required for fulfilling the purpose.We may also disclose your personal information for the following reasons:

• To comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders or other legal processes
• To enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy
• To respond to claims that your use of our website violates any third-party rights

If our website or our company is merged with or acquired by another company, your information will be one of the assets that’s transferred to the new owner.

Retention of your information

We’ll retain your personal information for as long as we need to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods, for example for record-keeping/reporting in accordance with applicable laws or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights and fraud prevention. We may store residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), indefinitely.

Your rights

Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to:

• Access and rectify or erase your personal data
• Receive a copy of your personal data
• Restrict or object to the active processing of your data
• Ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity
• Withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data
• Lodge a complaint with a statutory authority

And other such rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at writers@gunningmarketing.co.uk. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.You may opt out of direct marketing communications or the profiling we carry out for marketing purposes by writing to us at writers@gunningmarketing.co.uk.Please note that if you don’t allow us to collect or process the required personal information – or if you withdraw consent to process that information for the required purposes – you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.

Cookies

To learn more about how we use cookies and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Security

The security of your information is important to us, and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorised alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security, and consequently we can’t ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Therefore, you transmit your data to us at your own risk.

Third party links and use of your information

Our website may contain links to other websites that we don’t operate. This Privacy Policy doesn’t address the privacy policy or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service that may be accessible via a link on our website. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Data Protection Officer

If you have any queries or concerns about the processing of your information that is available with us, you may email our Data Protection Officer at anna@gunningmarketing.co.uk. We will address your concerns in accordance with applicable law.

Review of this policy

This policy was last reviewed in April 2025. We will review it whenever there are material changes to the law or to our business practices, and at least annually.

Document Control

This policy reflects the requirements of section 164A of the Data Protection Act 2018 as inserted by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. It should be read alongside our Cookie Policy and Data Protection Complaint Policy. It does not constitute legal advice.