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SEED Early Childhood Privacy Policy

This privacy policy ("Policy") will help you understand how Samantha Donnelly (T/A) SEED Early Childhood ("Us", "We", "Our") uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use https//:seedearlychildhood.com ("Blog", "Service", “Site”).

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details

What information we collect, use, and why

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Where we get personal information from

How long we keep information

Who we share information with

How to complain
Cookies

Contact details:

Post: Apartment 204, Milne Building, Heritage Lane, LONDON, NW6 2AF, GB

Email: samantha@seedearlychildhood.com

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information for information updates or marketing purposes:

Names and contact details.
Addresses.
IP addresses.
Marketing preferences.
Records of consent, where appropriate.
Data profile regarding your online behaviour on our blog.
Other information, such as interests and preferences.

We also collect or use the following special category information for information updates or marketing purposes.

To better understand your needs.
To improve our services and products.
To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.
To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research.
To customize our blog according to your online behaviour and personal preferences.

This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature.

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR.

The lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights, which are set out in brief below.

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information, such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions, which means you may not receive all the information you ask for.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.
Your right to withdraw consent -When we use consent as our lawful basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month. To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:

Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Contract - we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Legal obligation - we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability.
Our legitimate interests are:
To better understand your needs.
To improve our services and products.
To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.
To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research.
To customise our blog according to your online behaviour and personal preferences.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis, you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Public task - we have to collect or use your information to carry out a task laid down in law, which the law intends to be performed by an organisation such as ours. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure and the right to portability.

Where we get personal information from

Directly from you

How long we keep information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary. We keep financial transaction data for 6 years in compliance with UK tax law. Your newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe.

Who we share information with

Data processors: Google, Hostinger, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, PayPal, Ko-Fi and Stripe.

These data processor does the following activities for us:

Advertisements.
Analytics.
Newsletter subscriptions.
Hosting.
Financial transactions.

Others we share personal information with:

Other relevant third parties.
Analytics, email, name, query.

Links to Other Websites

Our blog contains links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links, Samantha Donnelly (T/A) SEED Early Childhood is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Make sure to read the Privacy Policy documentation of the website you go to from our Site, as this policy does not govern third-party websites.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this Privacy Policy. If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Cookies

Once you agree to allow our Services to use cookies, you also agree to use the data it collects regarding your online behaviour. The data we collect by using cookies is used to customise our Blog to your needs.

We reserve the right to change this Policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page.

Last updated: 03 Feburary, 2026

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SEED Early Childhood Privacy Policy

This privacy policy ("Policy") will help you understand how Samantha Donnelly (T/A) SEED Early Childhood ("Us", "We", "Our") uses and protects the data you provide to us when you visit and use https//:seedearlychildhood.com ("Blog", "Service", “Site”).

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details

What information we collect, use, and why

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Where we get personal information from

How long we keep information

Who we share information with

How to complain

Cookies

Contact details:

Post: Apartment 204, Milne Building, Heritage Lane, LONDON, NW6 2AF, GB

Email: samantha@seedearlychildhood.com

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information for information updates or marketing purposes:

Names and contact details.

Addresses.

IP addresses.

Marketing preferences.

Records of consent, where appropriate.

Data profile regarding your online behaviour on our blog.

Other information, such as interests and preferences.

We also collect or use the following special category information for information updates or marketing purposes.

To better understand your needs.

To improve our services and products.

To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.

To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research.

To customize our blog according to your online behaviour and personal preferences.

This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature.

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR.

The lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights, which are set out in brief below.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information.

Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you.

Your right to withdraw consent -When we use consent as our lawful basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month. To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:

Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Contract - we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Legal obligation - we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability.

Our legitimate interests are:

To better understand your needs.

To improve our services and products.

To send you promotional emails containing the information we think you will find interesting.

To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research.

To customise our blog according to your online behaviour and personal preferences.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis, you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Public task - we have to collect or use your information to carry out a task laid down in law, which the law intends to be performed by an organisation such as ours. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure and the right to portability.

Where we get personal information from

Directly from you

How long we keep information

We will only retain your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary. We keep financial transaction data for 6 years in compliance with UK tax law. Your newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe.

Who we share information with

Data processors: Google, Hostinger, Meta Pixel, Hotjar, PayPal, Ko-Fi and Stripe.

These data processor does the following activities for us:

Advertisements.

Analytics.

Newsletter subscriptions.

Hosting.

Financial transactions.

Others we share personal information with:

Other relevant third parties.

Analytics, email, name, query.

Links to Other Websites

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this Privacy Policy. If you remain unhappy with how we have used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Cookies

Once you agree to allow our Services to use cookies, you also agree to use the data it collects regarding your online behaviour. The data we collect by using cookies is used to customise our Blog to your needs.

We reserve the right to change this Policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently visit this page.

Last updated: 03 Feburary, 2026