Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11/06/2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Elizabeth Demine collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you visit this website, contact me, sign up to my newsletter, download resources, book a service, or purchase a digital product.

I am committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information in a clear, fair, and responsible way.

1. Who I am

This website is operated by:

Elizabeth Demine
Website: www.elizabethdemine.com
Location: Ireland

For the purpose of data protection law, Elizabeth Demine is the data controller of the personal information collected through this website.

2. What personal information I collect

Depending on how you use this website, I may collect the following information:

• Your name

• Your email address

• Your phone number, if provided

• Your message or enquiry details

• Information you provide when booking a service, course, workshop, or consultation

• Information you provide when downloading a resource or signing up to a newsletter

• Payment, billing, order, and transaction details when you make a purchase

• Website usage information, such as pages visited, time spent on the website, and general analytics data

• Cookie and technical information, such as browser type, device type, and IP address

I only collect information that is necessary for the purpose for which it is provided.

3. How I use your personal information

I may use your personal information to:

• Respond to your enquiries

• Provide services, courses, workshops, consultancy, or training

• Send newsletters or updates, where you have chosen to receive them

• Process bookings, payments, orders, or purchases

• Deliver digital products, resources, courses, or services

• Handle refunds, customer support, or payment issues

• Improve this website and understand how visitors use it

• Maintain business, tax, and accounting records

• Comply with legal, tax, or regulatory obligations

• Protect the security and proper functioning of this website

4. Legal basis for using your information

Under GDPR, I must have a lawful reason for using your personal information. Depending on the situation, I may rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Consent — for example, when you sign up to receive a newsletter or agree to optional cookies.

• Contract — when I need your information to provide a service, course, booking, resource, or product you have requested.

• Legal obligation — when I need to keep certain records for tax, accounting, or legal purposes.

• Legitimate interests — for example, to respond to enquiries, improve my website, manage my business, and keep the website secure.

5. Newsletter and marketing emails

If you sign up to my newsletter or updates, I will use your name and email address to send you relevant content, updates, resources, offers, or information about my services.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting me directly at contact@elizabethdemine.com.

I will not send you marketing emails unless you have given consent or there is another lawful basis for doing so.

6. Contact forms and enquiries

When you contact me through a form, email, or booking link, I collect the information you provide so I can respond to your enquiry and manage any follow-up communication.

I will not use your contact details for unrelated marketing unless you have clearly agreed to this.

7. Bookings, services, digital products, and payments

If you book a service, course, workshop, consultation, or purchase a digital product through this website, I may collect the information needed to process your booking or order, deliver the service or product, manage communication, and keep appropriate business records.

When you make a purchase from this website, I use Squarespace Payments as the payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated payment solution provided by Squarespace, the online store and website service provider.

Squarespace Payments uses trusted third-party service providers to process payments. These providers may receive and process your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

This includes:

Stripe — payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s Privacy Policy here:
https://stripe.com/privacy

When you make a payment, Squarespace Payments and Stripe may receive personal information such as your name, email address, billing details, payment information, order details, transaction details, and any other information required to complete the purchase.

I do not directly store your full payment card details on this website.

Your payment and order information may be used to:

• Process your purchase

• Confirm your order

• Deliver digital products, resources, courses, workshops, or services

• Handle refunds, customer support, or payment issues

• Maintain business, tax, and accounting records

• Comply with legal obligations

Payment and order records may be kept for as long as required for legal, tax, accounting, and business purposes.

8. Cookies and analytics

This website may use cookies to help it function properly, improve user experience, understand website traffic, and support analytics or marketing tools.

Some cookies are essential for the website to work. Other cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, may require your consent before they are used.

You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings or through the cookie banner on this website, where available.

For more details, please see the separate Cookie Policy on this website.

9. Third-party services

I may use trusted third-party services to operate this website and provide my services. These may include:

• Squarespace, for website hosting and online store services

• Squarespace Payments, for payment processing

• Stripe, for payment processing services

• Email newsletter platforms

• Analytics tools

• Booking systems

• Contact form tools

• Online course or digital product platforms

• Social media platforms

These third parties may process personal data either on my behalf or as independent data controllers. I only use third-party services that are necessary for running this website, providing my services, processing purchases, improving user experience, and meeting legal obligations.

10. How long I keep your information

I keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected.

For example:

• Enquiry emails may be kept for a reasonable period so I can manage communication and follow-up.

• Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe or ask for your data to be deleted.

• Booking, payment, order, and business records may be kept for legal, tax, or accounting purposes.

• Website analytics data may be kept according to the settings of the analytics provider.

When personal information is no longer needed, it will be deleted or anonymised where possible.

11. How I protect your information

I take reasonable steps to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website or online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Please avoid sending highly sensitive personal information through website forms unless necessary.

12. International transfers

Some third-party services I use may process or store data outside the European Economic Area, the UK, or your country of residence.

Where this happens, I aim to use services that provide appropriate safeguards for international data transfers, such as standard contractual clauses or other legally recognised protection measures.

13. Your data protection rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection law, you may have rights over your personal information, including the right to:

• Access the personal information I hold about you

• Correct inaccurate or incomplete information

• Request deletion of your personal information

• Restrict or object to certain types of processing

• Withdraw consent, where consent is the legal basis

• Request a copy of your data in a portable format

• Complain to a data protection authority

To exercise your rights, contact me at:

contact@elizabethdemine.com

14. Complaints

If you are concerned about how your personal information is handled, please contact me first so I can try to resolve the issue.

You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

If you are based in Ireland, this may be the Data Protection Commission.
If you are based in the UK, this may be the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you are based in another EU country, you can contact your local data protection authority.

15. Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites, platforms, or social media pages. I am not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of external websites.

Please read the privacy policies of any external websites you visit.

16. Updates to this policy

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in my website, services, tools, or legal obligations.

The latest version will always be available on this page.