website privacy policy
Last Updated: 30 July 2026
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Welcome to the Privacy Notice of Sammy Brown Trading as Sammy Brown Coaching and Hypnotherapy ("we", "us", or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice informs you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
Data Controller & Contact Details
Sammy Brown Trading as Sammy Brown Coaching and Hypnotherapy is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details set out below:
Full Name of Legal Entity: Sammy Brown Trading as Sammy Brown Coaching and Hypnotherapy
Email Address: sammy@sammybrown.co.uk
Postal Address: 16 Kensington Gardens, Carlton, Nottingham, NG4 1EA
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.
2. The Data We Collect About You
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title.
Contact Data: Includes email address, telephone numbers, and billing/delivery address.
Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, location, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
3. How Your Personal Data Is Collected
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns via cookies and server logs.
Third Parties: We may receive Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google (based outside the UK).
4. How We Use Your Personal Data & Lawful Bases
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
5. Cloud Storage and Office Productivity Tools
To manage our business operations, deliver our services, and communicate effectively, we store and process visitors' and clients' personal information using secure cloud-based productivity and storage tools. Specifically, we utilize:
Google Workspace (provided by Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC) for cloud storage, document management, email, and internal collaboration tools.
Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365 (provided by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited / Microsoft Corporation) for document creation, cloud storage via OneDrive and SharePoint, and operational management.
Lawful Basis: We store details in these platforms based on our Legitimate Interests to maintain structured and secure operational records, or Contractual Necessity where storing your information is required to perform our contract with you.
6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with internal staff and external third-party service providers acting as processors who provide IT, system administration, web hosting, and cloud storage services to us (including Google and Microsoft). We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
7. International Data Transfers
Many of our external service providers (including Google and Microsoft) are based outside the UK, so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We transfer data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Government.
Where providers are located in countries without adequacy decisions (such as the US), we utilize standard contractual clauses approved for use in the UK (e.g., the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or UK Addendum) or reliance on recognised Data Privacy Frameworks.
8. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
9. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Retention Period Guidelines:
General Web Inquiries: Retained for 24 months following the last contact, after which records in cloud storage are archived or securely deleted.
Customer / Contractual Records: Retained for 7 years following termination of the relationship in line with UK statutory limitation periods.
10. Your Legal Rights
Under UK data protection laws, you have rights in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
Request access to your personal data (Data Subject Access Request).
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data where we rely on a legitimate interest.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at sammy@sammybrown.co.uk. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data.
11. Information relating to our website provider: Squarespace
This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
If you provide your email address to us, we may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
12. Third-Party Links & Cookies
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
Cookies:
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookiesare used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies.