Privacy Notice

AJL Digital Studio is the trading name of Adam Lee, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. I’m the controller of the personal information described in this notice, which means I decide how it’s used and I’m responsible for looking after it.

For anything about your data, email support@ajldigitalstudio.co.uk. You’ll hear back from me directly.

This notice covers this website, enquiries you send me, templates you buy, and the records I keep when I quote for or work on a project.

When you send an enquiry

The enquiry form asks for:

• your name and email address (required)
• your company or event name (optional)
• the kind of help you need, such as a new website or support
• a description of your project
• a rough budget and target launch date (optional)

If you email me instead, I receive your email address, name and whatever you choose to include in your message. Please don’t send sensitive information (such as health details) unless it’s genuinely needed.

If you become a client

Contact details for you and anyone you ask me to deal with, project correspondence, quotes and agreements, invoices and payment records (for example, the amount and date paid — not your card details), and the content you supply for your website.

If I host or maintain your website, it may itself collect information about your visitors. You’re usually the controller of that data and I act on your instructions; that’s covered in our project agreement rather than here.

If you buy a template

Templates are listed on Framer Marketplace and paid for through a secure checkout operated by Stripe. I receive your name, email address, the product, amount and date of payment and a payment reference — never your full card details. I use these to email you the template and setup guide, provide support, handle refunds and keep accounting records.

When you visit this website

Like any website, the servers that deliver these pages process technical information needed to send them to your browser and to keep the site secure: your IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, the referring page and the time of the request. These may be kept briefly in security and error logs.

This website doesn’t use analytics, advertising, tracking pixels or social media plugins, and doesn’t build a profile of you.

Data protection law requires a lawful basis for each use of personal information. These are the ones I rely on:

Where I rely on legitimate interests, I’ve considered that the use is expected, limited to what’s needed and doesn’t override your rights. You can object at any time (see your rights).

I don’t currently rely on consent for anything. If that changes — for example, a newsletter — I’ll ask first, and you’ll be able to withdraw your consent as easily as you gave it.

You don’t have to give me any information, but I can’t reply to an enquiry without an email address, or carry out a project without the details needed to do it. I don’t sell personal information, use it for advertising or make decisions about you by automated means.

I don’t share your information with anyone for their own purposes. I do use a small number of service providers who process it on my behalf, under contracts that require them to protect it and use it only on my instructions:

• Website hosting: Vercel Inc., which processes data in the United States and other countries.
• Email: Purelymail, which processes data in the United States.
• Template sales: Framer, which lists templates on its Marketplace, and Stripe, which processes template payments. Each handles the details you give them under its own privacy notice.
• Professional advisers and payment services: for example, an accountant, bank or payment provider, where needed for invoicing, accounts and tax.

I may also disclose information where the law requires it, such as to HM Revenue & Customs, or to protect my legal rights.

Some of the providers above may store or process data outside the UK. When that happens, the transfer is protected by the safeguards UK law requires — such as a UK adequacy decision for the country concerned, or the International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses.

Email support@ajldigitalstudio.co.uk if you’d like more detail about a particular transfer.

• Enquiries that don’t go ahead: up to 12 months after our last contact, in case you come back to the project, then deleted.
• Client records, agreements and correspondence: for the length of our working relationship and then up to six years, the period in which legal claims can usually be made.
• Invoices and accounting records: for as long as tax law requires — currently up to six years after the end of the financial year they relate to.
• Website request and security logs: for a short period set by the hosting provider, normally a matter of days or weeks.

This website is served over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection, the enquiry form includes spam protection, and I use reputable providers and protect the accounts that hold your information with strong passwords and two-factor authentication where available. Access is limited to me. No system is perfectly secure, but if something ever went wrong that put your information at risk, I’d act quickly and tell you and the ICO where the law requires.

This website doesn’t set any cookies, and doesn’t store anything in your browser using local storage or similar technologies. There are no advertising or third-party tracking scripts or analytics, and fonts are served from this website rather than from an outside service.

That’s why you won’t see a cookie banner. If I ever add something that stores information on your device and isn’t strictly necessary, I’ll ask for your consent before it runs and update this notice.

If you follow a link from this website to another one, that site has its own privacy and cookie practices.

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• ask for a copy of the personal information I hold about you
• have inaccurate or incomplete information corrected
• ask me to delete your information
• ask me to limit how I use it
• object to my using it on the basis of legitimate interests
• receive information you gave me in a portable format, where the law provides for it
• withdraw consent at any time, where I’ve asked for it

Some rights have limits — for example, I may need to keep invoices for tax purposes even if you ask me to delete them. If so, I’ll explain why.

To make a request, email support@ajldigitalstudio.co.uk. There’s normally no charge. I may need to confirm your identity, and I’ll respond within one month (this can be extended for complex requests, and I’d tell you if so).

If you’re unhappy with how I’ve handled your information, please tell me first at support@ajldigitalstudio.co.uk — I’ll acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and do my best to put things right.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator:

• Online: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
• Phone: 0303 123 1113
• Post: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

I’ll update this notice when the way I handle personal information changes, and change the date at the top. If a change significantly affects you as a client, I’ll let you know directly. Please also see the website terms of use.