Data Protection Policy

At The Small Business Handbook Ltd, we recognise the importance of your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data we collect in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The following policy outlines how we handle your data responsibly.

  1. Data Collection: We collect personal data from you when you use our services, register on our site, subscribe to our services, or contact us directly. The data we collect may include your name, email address, phone number, and payment information. We may also collect non-personally identifiable information, such as browser type, operating system, and other similar technical information.

  2. Use of Data: We use the data we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our services, to process transactions, to communicate with you, to send marketing and promotional materials, and for other legitimate business purposes.

  3. Data Protection: We employ physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect your data from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, and destruction. These measures include encryption, access controls, secure servers, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

  4. Sharing of Data: We do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties for their independent use without your permission. However, we may share your data with our service providers, such as payment processors and email service providers, who assist us in delivering our services. These service providers are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

  5. Data Retention: We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

  6. Your Rights: You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You also have the right to object to or restrict our processing of your personal data, and the right to data portability. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at help@thesmallbusinesshandbook.com.

  7. Cookies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

  8. Policy Updates: We may update our Data Protection Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on our website and updating the "effective date" at the top of this policy.