Last Updated: 15.09.2025
At Velaris Marketing, your privacy is of the utmost importance. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
By using our website (velarismarketing.com) or engaging our services, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
- Who We Are
Chris Tallant trading as Velaris Marketing is a UK-based freelance marketing and design business. For the purposes of data protection legislation, we are the data controller of your personal data.
If you have any questions about this policy or your data, please contact us at:
Name: Chris Tallant
Email: hello@velarismarketing.com - The Personal Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following types of personal data:
– Identity and Contact Data: Name, email address, phone number, and any other contact details you provide when you fill out a contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, or communicate with us directly.
– Project and Business Data: Any information you share with us during a project, such as your business name, project-related details, and customer information, which is necessary for us to provide our services.
– Technical and Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the duration of your visit. This data is collected using tools like Google Analytics.
-Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences. - How We Collect Your Data
We collect data through the following methods:
– Direct Interactions: When you contact us via our website contact form, email, or social media.
– Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data. This is done using cookies and other similar technologies. - How We Collect Your Data
Our website uses Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA to protect against spam and abuse. This tool analyses interactions on the site to determine whether activity is carried out by a human or an automated bot.
As part of this service, Google may collect information such as:
IP address, device and browser information, cookies placed by Google, mouse movements, and the time spent on pages.
The use of reCAPTCHA is governed by Google’s policies:
– Google Privacy Policy
– Google Terms of Service
By using this website, you acknowledge that Invisible reCAPTCHA is in operation and consent to its processing where required. - How and Why We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when we have a lawful basis to do so. The primary reasons we use your data are:
– To Respond to Your Enquiries: To answer your questions and provide information about our services.
Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interest in communicating with potential clients.
– To Fulfil Our Contractual Obligations: To provide the marketing and design services you have hired us for.
Lawful Basis: Performance of a contract.
– To Improve Our Website: To analyse website traffic and understand how visitors use our site, helping us to improve its functionality and user experience.
Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interest in growing our business and enhancing our online presence.
– For Direct Marketing: To send you our newsletter or updates if you have opted in.
Lawful Basis: Consent.
– To Comply with Legal Obligations: To maintain records required by law, such as for tax purposes.
Lawful Basis: Legal Obligation. - Sharing Your Personal Data
We do not sell or rent your personal data to any third parties. We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our business. These third parties are contractually obligated to keep your data secure and to use it only for the purposes we specify.
These may include:
– Hosting Providers: For our website.
– Analytics Providers: Such as Google Analytics, to help us understand website traffic.
– Payment Processors: To handle secure transactions. - Cookies
Our website uses cookies to collect information for analytics and to improve your user experience. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. - Data Security and Retention
We have implemented security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including for satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. - Your Legal Rights
Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
– The Right to Be Informed: To be informed about how your data is being used.
– The Right of Access: To request a copy of the data we hold about you.
– The Right to Rectification: To have inaccurate data corrected.
– The Right to Erasure (The ‘Right to be Forgotten’): To have your data deleted in certain circumstances.
– The Right to Restrict Processing: To ask us to stop processing your data in certain circumstances.
– The Right to Data Portability: To request a copy of your data in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
– The Right to Object: To object to the processing of your data in certain situations.
– Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided in Section 1.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. - Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. We encourage you to check this page periodically to ensure you are happy with any changes.