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Customer privacy notice
This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.
Contact details
Email: businesseconomics.st@outlook.com
What information we collect, use, and why
We collect or use the following information to provide educational resources, online courses and subscriptions:
Names and contact details including email address
Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)
Website visitors:
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. https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
Customer accounts:
If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.
This information may include your:
Billing and shipping address(es)
Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you.
Emails:
You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:
You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.
You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.
You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.
You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.
The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.
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.
We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:
You’ve created a customer account
Your customer account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.
We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.
Lawful bases and data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. Read more about the right of access.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. Read more about the right to rectification.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. Read more about the right to erasure.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. Read more about the right to restriction of processing.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. Read more about the right to object to processing.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. Read more about the right to data portability.
Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Read more about the right to withdraw consent.
If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month. To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:
Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interest is to deliver educational resources.
For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.
Where we get personal information from
Directly from you
How long we keep information
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section above. For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above.
Who we share information with
Data processor and website hosting provider:
When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member sites access. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your subscription
Email address
Name
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
Squarespaces privacy policy can be accessed at https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
Payment provider:
When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:
Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy
Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy
When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace as our commerce platform. Squarespace makes use of Stripe, a third-party service provider, to power automated tax calculations. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase (for example, Product Tax Codes for the items purchased)
Name
Stripe may also receive personal information and process it in accordance their privacy policies.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us:
Email: businesseconomics.st@outlook.com
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Last updated
1 July 2026