Website Privacy Notice
1. introduction
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site www.paulamcmullan.com.
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.
McMullan Associates Limited is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice.
Contact Details
Full name of legal entity: McMullan Associates Limited
Email address: paula@paulamcmullan.com
Postal address: Numeric House, 98 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7BY
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at paula@paulamcmullan.com.
2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
Communication Data
This includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
Client Data
This includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
User Data
This includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back-ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
Technical Data
This includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
Our website uses Google Fonts to display text consistently across devices. When a page loads, your browser requests the font files from Google, and in doing so your IP address is transmitted to Google, which is based in the United States. Our lawful ground is our legitimate interests, namely presenting our website properly.
Marketing Data
This includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as webinars and free downloads, to deliver relevant website content. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent, contract or our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
We may use Client Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and to measure. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business or for direct marketing).
We may also use Communications Data, Client Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
Required Processing
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
Purposes of Processing
We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at paula@paulamcmullan.com]. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.
Sensitive Data, Criminal Conviction Data and Automated Processing
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data.
We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Automated decision making
We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.
3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this Cookie Policy.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the UK and/or the EU, search information providers such as Google based outside the UK and/or the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
We may also receive data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside or outside the UK and/or the EU.
4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent, our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However, you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at paula@paulamcmullan.com at any time.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
- Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
- Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
- Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We are subject to the provisions of the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR) that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the UK, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data. As such:
- We may transfer your personal data to countries that the United Kingdom regulatory authorities have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
- If we use US-based providers that are part of the UK-US Data Bridge (the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework), we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or
- Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the UK, we may use specific contracts approved by the ICO (the International Data Transfer Agreement or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses), or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the UK government, which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.
If none of the above safeguards are available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
Where you are within the EEA:
We are subject to the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the EEA, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data. As such:
- We may transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission has approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data; or
- If we use US-based providers that are part of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or
- Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the EEA, we may use specific contracts (the EU Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission in June 2021), or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission, which give personal data the same protection it has in the EEA.
If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
The US-based providers we rely on include Google, which we use for website analytics and for serving Google Fonts. Where we transfer your data to Google, we rely on the safeguards set out above."
7. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
8. DATA RETENTION
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
If you are within the UK, you can see more about these rights at: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at paula@paulamcmullan.com.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
When responding to a request to access your personal data, we are only required to carry out searches that are reasonable and proportionate in the circumstances (as now expressly recognised in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025). This means we will take into account factors such as the nature of the information sought, the context in which it is held, any difficulty involved in locating it and the potential benefit to you of receiving it.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month of receiving the request (or, where applicable, of receiving the identity verification information or clarification we have asked for - the response period is paused, or "stopped", while we wait for that information, in line with the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025).
Occasionally it may take us longer than one month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests, in which case we may extend the response period by up to a further two months. We will notify you within one month of receiving your request if an extension is needed and explain why.
10. HOW TO COMPLAIN
You can submit a data protection complaint to us by:
- completing our online complaints form at https://forms.gle/muqVdJVimTixpGUq5
- emailing us at paula@paulamcmullan.com
- writing to us at McMullan Associates Limited, Numeric House, 98 Station Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7BY
We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days of receiving it. We will investigate your complaint without undue delay, keep you informed of our progress, and communicate the outcome to you clearly with sufficient detail for you to understand how we reached our conclusion.
If you are within the UK and are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
If you are within the EU and are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to the data protection authority of the country in which you are based.
