Privacy & Cookie Policy

1. Privacy Policy

1.         Who We Are

1.1    Home Lighting Ideas by K&S is a trading name for Kate and Sam Lighting Designers Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 9753406 whose registered address is at Saint Lawrence Lodge, 37 Chamberlain St, Wells BA5 2PQ, hereinafter referred to as ‘Home Lighting Ideas’

2. Privacy Policy

2.1 What Personal Data or Information Do we Collect?

We may collect personal data about clients, prospective clients, job applicants, our current and former employees, suppliers, and external experts.  The personal information we collect may include your name, address, email address, IP address and information regarding the pages you access on this website and when.

2.2 How Do We Collect Data or Information from You?

We collect personal information about you when you:

• Make an enquiry via the forms on our website or via the telephone
• Use our website and willingly submit data via contact form(s)
• Provide services and/or sales to Salad Creative Limited

2.3 How Is Your Information Used?

Home Lighting Ideas collect your personal data or information to operate effectively and provide you with a high-quality service. We may use your information:

2.4 To Deliver Services to You

• To keep you informed about our services, our insight into industry trends and best practice, if you have opted-in to receive these communications
• To maintain the security of our office and IT infrastructure
• To send invoices, receipts and to track payments you make or payments made to you

We believe that all these purposes are justified on the basis of our legitimate interests in working collaboratively with you, our contractual requirements to deliver the agreed services to you, our legal obligations and being a responsible employer.  The exception is for sending email marketing about our services, which we carry out on the basis of consent or legitimate interest given.

2.5 Active and Former Customers

As an active or former customer, we will hold the following information about you:

• Name, contact information and any shared personal data
• Information relating to your query
• Information and documents relating to the service we are providing, including communications with you.
• Billing and payment information

2.6 Prospective Customers

As a prospective customer, we may hold the following information about you:

• Name, contact information and any shared personal data
• Information relating to your query

Home Lighting Ideas does not sell or rent your personal data or information to any third party or share your information with third parties for their marketing purposes.

We will disclose your data or information if required by law, for example by a court order or for the prevention of fraud or other identified crime.

We may pass your information on to third party service providers, agents or subcontractors for the purposes of completing a task or providing services to you on our behalf.  However, we disclose only the personal data necessary to deliver the agreed service and permission from yourself would always be mandatory beforehand.

2.7 Your Rights

You have certain rights over the processing of your personal information by Salad Creative Limited. These are:

• The right to be informed
• The right to access the data we hold about you
• The right to object to direct marketing
• The right to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests
• The right to erasure (assuming this does not contradict any legal requirements)
• The right to data portability
• The right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate
• The right to have your data restricted or blocked from processing

2.8 Want to Update Your Information with Us?

To contact Home Lighting Ideas with a data protection query or to update data that we hold, please use the following details:

Email us at hello@homelightingideas.com

Telephone us on +44207 993 2339.

Or to post a letter to:

Home Lighting Ideas

8 Trinity Street

London

SE1 1DB

You also have the right to lodge a complaint about our processing of your personal data with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.

2.9 Keeping Your Data Secure

When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely and strive to protect it on our internal systems.  We use remote third-party secure server systems that encrypts your information and have no immediate value outside of those systems.

2.10 Contacting Us Via Email

Emails from Home Lighting Ideas are SLL Encrypted. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law and Home Lighting Ideas do not accept the responsibility of any content, attachments or communications provided from yourself.

2.11 IP Addresses

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information for internal purposes only. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and cannot be used to identify any individual.

2.12 Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.

• • The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider and is not user controlled the type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, Linux, macOS etc) that is used
  • The device used, such as a mobile phone or tablet
  • The date and time of visit
  • The page(s) visited

The address of the website from which is linked to Homelightingideas.com (this is commonly described as a referrer)

3. Cookies Policy

3.1 Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.  They are necessary in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

3.2 Why are cookies used?

Cookies may be used for many different purposes:

• To make the website function properly. For example, without cookies, it would be difficult to make a website remember that you have logged in or visited the website before. These are called required cookies.
• To analyse how a website is used, e.g. to count the number of visitors, or to learn how the website may be improved. All tracking data and website usage are stored anonymously and cannot be linked back to individual website visitors. These cookies are called analytics cookies.
• Social media cookies are used to enable the integration of social media and your data with the platform in question into the website, so that you can immediately like or share a page without having to reauthenticate your profile.
• To enable online advertising, which may be personalised to show ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. This is done by (targeted) advertising cookies.

Unless you have set your browser to block cookies completely, this website will utilise the following cookies on your computer.

Cookie	Type	Purpose	Source	Expiry
_ga _gid _gat	Analytics Cookies	Google Analytics uses the information from these cookies to provide insight into how people are using the website, how often they visit and how they move around the site	First Party	2 years / 24 hours / 48 hours
laravel_session	Required Cookie	This checks if cookies are enabled on the browser to provide appropriate user experience to the users specific to the Laravel platform.	First Party	1 hour

All cookies identified above on the website are set to the root domain https://homelightingideas.com and are only readable to the homelightingideas.com website.

3.3 Opt In

We rely on the basis of explicit consent for our use of cookies. You have the option to refuse to accept analytics cookies each time you visit our website. This rejection only disables tracking of website use and behaviour and has no impact on the performance of any other areas of the website.

Modern web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.  To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

3.4  Visibility

There are some elements of data that may be visible to us as part of your use of the website. The information we have visibility of regardless of your acceptance of analytics cookies is:

• The internet domain e.g. www.organisation.co.uk and internet protocol address (IP address) from which you access the website. This is made available by your internet service provider and is not user controlled the type of browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome) and operating system (Windows, Linux, macOS etc) that is used
• The device used, such as a mobile phone or tablet
• The date and time of visit
• The page(s) visited
• The address of the website from which is linked to Homelightingideas.com (this is commonly described as a referrer)

We only use the information above to review website and server performance.

3.5  Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to websites run by other organisations. This cookie policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices or use of cookies of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you have linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that website for more specific information on their use of cookies.

4. Contact Details

To contact us at Home Lighting Ideas please use the following details:

Email us at hello@homelightingideas.com

Telephone us on +44207 993 2339.

Or to post a letter to:

Home Lighting Ideas

8 Trinity Street

London

SE1 1DB