[dt_row ][dt_column column=”12″][dt_text_html spy=”none” scroll_delay=”300″]

Privacy Policy

Web Design Paisley is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us at if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Table of Contents

  1. Definitions used in this Policy
  2. Data protection principles we follow
  3. What rights do you have regarding your Personal Data
  4. What Personal Data we gather about you
  5. How we use your Personal Data
  6. Who else has access to your Personal Data
  7. How we secure your data
  8. Information about cookies
  9. Contact information

Definitions

Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) –

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

Data Subject’s rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  1. Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed.
  2. Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered.
  3. Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  4. Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records.
  5. Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data.
  6. Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing.
  7. Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you.
  8. Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another.
  9. Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us.
  10. Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages.
  11. Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data.

Data we gather

Information you have provided us with
This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.

Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.

Publicly available information
We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

How we use your Personal Data

We use your Personal Data in order to:

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we secure your data

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Children

We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Contact Information

email info@webdesignpaisley.co.uk

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to make change to this Privacy Policy.
Last modification was made 16 May 2018 .

[/dt_text_html][/dt_column][/dt_row]

Mistake No 1:

Hiring a web developer based on the other side of the country (or worse – the world) that you don’t meet face to face.

You may be running a similar business to your competitors but that doesn’t mean you aren’t unique.  There is no one size fits all when it comes to a business website.

A website can be a big investment for any business so it’s crucial you get your marketing message right.  After all, your website is the window to your business and first impressions count. You therefore need to have confidence that the person you have chosen to achieve this for you fully understands your business and your goals and a face to face meeting will enable you to judge whether or not the web designer “gets” you and can deliver your project accurately.

Misinterpreting the brief is more likely to happen when corresponding by phone and email and can be costly.

Web Design Paisley

Mistake No 2:

Not taking your Web Designers Advice.

You may know your business back to front but you may not know the best practices for building a business website.  You are hiring this person for a reason so you need to draw on their expertise and experience and listen to their advice. 

There is so much more to building a website than just the design and content, e.g. the right domain name; best hosting; the best keywords that will get your site ranked in the search engines to name but a few. 

At the end of the day you are the client but that doesn’t mean you are always right.  If your site doesn’t achieve what you hoped you can’t go back and blame the designer if you didn’t listen!

Mistake No 3:

Copying your competitors’ content

Not everyone is capable of writing engaging, informative and unique copy for their website.  You therefore have 2 options; hire a copywriter or pay your web designer to do it if they offer that service.  The search engines can smell plagiarism a mile off and they WILL penalise your site for duplicate content

I have seen websites disappear off the Google radar for copying articles from other websites. In some instances a site can be ‘Sandboxed’ by Google which means it disappears completely.  Sandboxing can be permanent at worst and costly and difficult at best to recover from, especially if you have spent a great deal of money on having your website built and SEO strategies to get it ranked.

It is also a breach of copyright and a big NO NO.

Web Design Paisley Pirate
Mistake No 4:

Not ensuring you get the right training and support to manage and update your website.

You want a website you can manage and update yourself once the project is complete and the site is live.  You have special offers that change on a weekly basis; you want to write a blog; you need to review and change your price lists on a regular basis. 

You choose to commission a CMS (Content Management System) website so you can do just that. But you failed to make it clear to your web designer that you needed training and guides to show you how.  Now he’s done and dusted and you are floundering. 

Don’t let anyone make you feel inadequate because you aren’t a whiz kid on the computer, everyone has different levels and some need a little more help than others so make sure you get it.  Check that your chosen web designer has incorporated that cost into their proposal and that they will offer at least some ongoing support until you get up to speed… which brings us on to Mistake no 5…

Web Design Paisley CMS

Mistake No 5:

Not getting a detailed proposal for the Project

If you don’t get a detailed proposal outlining everything you want to achieve from the project – don’t hire!  A detailed proposal protects you and the web designer if things go wrong.  Any web Designer worth their salt will not start a project until the proposal is agreed and you are both absolutely clear about what is expected on both sides.

Another mistake many business owners make is not reading the proposal fully.  It’s a contract!  Read it and query anything you don’t understand or don’t agree with.

Also note the payment terms and at what stages of the build you are agreeing to the stage payments and know when you are expected to pay.

Web Design Paisley website contract
Mistake No 6:

Taking what appears to be the “cheap” option.

You’ve seen the emails and had the phone calls from the big marketing firms who offer to build your website for a very low upfront fee then a monthly cost.

Do the math!  The monthly fee doesn’t end.  How much will this site have cost you in 2, 3, 5 years’ time?  And… you will already know from your own business cheapest usually isn’t the best.

That doesn’t mean you have to spend thousands to get the best result – just hire the right person who understands the brief and be prepared to pay a reasonable fee for the service, it will still be cheaper in the long run.

Web Design Paisley website price

Mistake No 7:

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER let anyone else secure your domain name in their name.

We are not all computer geeks, however, most people can get themselves a domain name online without too much difficulty.  Your domain name is key to your online marketing and your business.  If you trust a 3rd party to buy and register your domain in their name then you are placing yourself and your business at their mercy.

The business types mentioned in Mistake No 6 will offer to do everything for you including getting you a domain name.  You could then spend years getting your website ranked only to have someone you have parted ways with holding a gun to your head.

It’s YOUR business, it must be YOUR domain.

 
domain name

Why not break the ice, contact us & get the ball rolling

For more information and advice get in touch with us or send some basic info for a quick quote.