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Privacy Policy - 

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Alyson Dakin is committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of visitors.
This Privacy Policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to
me, or that I collect from you whilst you visit this site.
I do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.
 

1. General statement
 

1.1. I fully respect your right to privacy and will not collect any personal information
about you on this website without your clear permission.
 

1.2. Any personal information, which you volunteer to me, will be treated with the
highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data
Protection Acts 2018 and UK GDPR.
 

2. Collection and use of personal information
 

2.1. I do not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from
information which you volunteer, for example through my online contact form. Any
information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties
and is used only by me in line with the purpose for which you provided it.
 

3. Collection and use of technical information
 

3.1. This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary “session” cookies
which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have
already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if
cookies are disabled from the web browser.
 

3.2. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by the
internet service provider for statistical purposes (the web hosting company used is
Wix.com). No information is collected that could be used by me to identify website
visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:

  • The IP address of the visitor’s web server;

  • he top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net);T

  • The previous website address from which the visitor reached this site,

  • including any search terms used;

  • Click stream data which shows the traffic of visitors around this website [for

  • example pages accessed and documents downloaded];

  •  The type of web browser used by the website visitor.

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If you would like any more information collected by the web hosting company,
please refer to Wix.com - https://www.wix.com/about/privacy

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3.3. I will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical
details listed above with any individual.
 

3.4. It is my policy to never disclose such technical information in respect of
individual website visitors to any third party - apart from our internet service
provider, which records such data on my behalf, and which is bound by
confidentiality provisions in this regard - unless obliged to disclose such information
by a rule of law.
 

3.5. The technical information will be used only by me, and only for statistical and
other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which I cannot
associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the
purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR.
 

4. Definitions
In this Privacy Policy:
 

4.1 ‘my site’ means my presence on the Internet;
 

4.2 ‘I’, ‘my’ and ‘me’ means Alyson Dakin on behalf of herself
Alyson Dakin can be contacted at literacyassessment.dyslexia@gmail.com
 

Glossary of technical terms used:
 

Web browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Google Chrome, etc.
 

IP address
The identifying details for your computer, or your internet company’s computer,
expressed in “internet protocol” code, for example 192.168.72.34. Every computer
connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the
same every time a connection is made.
 

Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide
a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences,
store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking
data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make
your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this
site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your
browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look
at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

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