PRIVACY POLICY & COOKIES
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.lightandstone.uk
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.
Light & Stone Coaching are the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
By accessing or using the Service, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted in the Service and your continued access or use of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.
Contact Details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Luke Squires trading as Light & Stone Coaching
Email address: lukesquires@lightandstone.uk
Postal address: 68 Como Road, London, SE23 2JW
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: lukesquires@lightandstone.uk
2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUNDS WE PROCESS IT
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
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.
Customer 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.
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 competitions, prize draws and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. 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 Customer Data, User Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. 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, Customer 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.
Client Data that includes data about individuals who engage Light & Stone Coaching for coaching, mentoring, workshops, or consultancy services. This includes identification data (such as name, email address, phone number), professional information (such as role, organisation, goals, and areas of focus), and any information shared during coaching sessions that is necessary for delivering the service.
We process this data to provide coaching and consultancy services, communicate with clients, schedule sessions, maintain accurate records, and ensure high‑quality professional support.
Our lawful ground of processing is Contract, as the processing is necessary to deliver the services clients have requested. We also rely on Legitimate Interests, which in this case are maintaining accurate client records, ensuring service quality, and managing ongoing professional relationships.
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 lukesquires@lightandstone.uk . 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. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK
Where you are within the United Kingdom:
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.
4. DATA SECURITY
The security of your information is important to us and we will use reasonable security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration of your information under our control. However, given the inherent risks, we cannot guarantee absolute security and consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
5. DATA RETENTION
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
6. 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 lukesquires@lightandstone.uk
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 consider 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 series 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.
7. HOW TO COMPLAIN
If you have a complaint about how we handle your personal data, we ask that you contact us first so that we can try to resolve it for you.
You can submit a data protection complaint to us by emailing us at lukesquires@lightandstone.uk
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).
8. THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections 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. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
9. COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
ABOUT COOKIES:
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
COOKIES WE USE:
We use cookies for the following purposes:
1. Authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website (cookies used for this purpose are: identify cookies);
2. Status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website (cookies used for this purpose are: identify cookies);
COOKIES USED BY OUR SERVICE PROVIDERS:
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The relevant cookies are: identify cookies.
MANAGING COOKIES:
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop (Firefox);
http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer)
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
Blocking all cookies may have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website