Talon Trade Marks & Brands have prepared this document to explain how we manage your data in relation to the use of our website.

In this statement, references to ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ relate to Talon Trade Marks & Brands. This Privacy Statement is designed to ensure we comply with the latest laws and regulations concerning data privacy.

We only collect and store information about you that is relevant to our services. Please contact us if you have any questions about how we use or store your data.

The Information We Collect

We will only collect and process information with your consent. We collect your contact information when you contact us, to reply to you, or render other services, such as sending you updates, or inviting you to events, seminars or similar. We will not use your contact information for any other reason.

Please contact us using the details on our website if you wish to opt out of receiving further communications from us.

Your contact information will be stored securely by us and some of it may also be stored by a number of secure third parties, including:

  • Squarespace - our website content management platform

  • Google Sheets - which stores our signup lists from the website

Our website also collects, analyses, and stores standard information about you for monitoring purposes and to help improve your experience. We may share this information publicly in an anonymised format.

If you access support through us, we will collect the following information:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Telephone numbers

  • Physical address

  • Job title and your employer’s contact details

  • Data required to conduct legal and regulatory checks, including anti-money laundering checks.

We will only use the information you provide for the purposes it was collected. We will not, under any circumstances, share or sell your personal data with any third party for their own purposes, and you should not receive marketing from any other companies, charities or other organisations as a result of giving your information to us.

There is some other information we collect concerning the operation of the website:

  • Website Analytics  - This website collects personal data 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.

    • Timestamps.

This information is collected automatically by Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies - Our 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 functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Fonts - This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

What Rights Do I Have?

  • You have certain rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you.

  • You can ask to see what information we hold – this is called a ‘data subject access request’.

  • You can ask us to change or erase information where reasonably the data should be changed/erased.

  • You can ask us to restrict our use of the information.

  • You can ask us to send information to other people.

  • You can ask us to stop using information.

More information on your rights can be found at: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), with registration reference ZA884177. You have a right to lodge a complaint with the ICO about our gathering, storage or use of your information, should you feel the need to do this.

If you have any questions about this policy, or the personal information we hold about you, please contact Douglas Thomson at dthomson@talon.scot

If you have any further questions about how we use your data, please get in touch.