Privacy Policy

Gun to Tape is the trading name of Mr James Lilley.

For the purposes of applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, Mr James Lilley, trading as Gun to Tape, is the data controller responsible for the processing of personal information described in this Privacy Policy.

In this Privacy Policy, references to “Gun to Tape”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Mr James Lilley, trading as Gun to Tape.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, you can contact us at: guntotape@gmail.com

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with our website.

Information you provide to us

If you contact us by email, we may collect information including:

• Your name
• Your email address
• The content of your message
• Any other information you choose to provide

We use this information to respond to your enquiry and, where relevant, discuss or provide services to you.

Please do not send sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your enquiry.

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website or by third-party services used on the website. This may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Pages visited
• Date and time of visits
• Information about how you interact with the website

The precise information collected may depend on your browser, device and the third-party services used.

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to enquiries and messages
• Communicate with potential or existing clients
• Provide and manage our services
• Maintain, operate and improve our website
• Protect the security of our website
• Understand how visitors interact with our website
• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

We will only use your personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so.

Depending on the circumstances, we may process your personal information on the following lawful bases:

Legitimate interests

We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests in operating and developing Gun to Tape, responding to enquiries, maintaining our website and protecting our business, provided that these interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

Contract

Where you engage Gun to Tape for services, we may process your information where this is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract or to perform a contract with you.

Legal obligation

We may process your information where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Consent

Where consent is required, we will ask for it before carrying out the relevant processing. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

The Gun to Tape website contains embedded videos hosted by YouTube.

When you interact with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube and its parent company, Google, may process information about your device, browser and interaction with the video.

Where available, Gun to Tape will use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode for embedded videos. YouTube states that this uses the 'youtube-nocookie.com' domain and is designed to reduce the use of viewing information to personalise the YouTube experience. See Google Help.

However, privacy-enhanced mode does not mean that YouTube is completely disconnected from the website. The ICO notes that embedded video services may use storage and access technologies when visitors interact with embedded content. See ICO guidance.

Where appropriate, we will configure embedded videos in the most privacy-friendly way available.

You can also choose to watch our videos directly on YouTube by following links from our website.

For more information about how Google and YouTube process personal information, please refer to their respective privacy information.

The Gun to Tape website contains links to our social media profiles, including:

• YouTube
• Instagram
• TikTok

These links take you away from the Gun to Tape website and to the relevant third-party platform.

Gun to Tape does not control how these platforms collect, use or store information about you once you visit them.

Each platform has its own privacy policies and terms governing the processing of personal information. We recommend reviewing the relevant platform’s privacy information if you visit or interact with our social media accounts.

The social media platforms may use cookies and other technologies on their own websites or applications. These technologies are controlled by the relevant platform rather than by Gun to Tape. The ICO recommends making visitors aware of this when a website provides links to social media services. See ICO guidance.

The Gun to Tape website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on your device when you visit a website. They can be used for purposes such as website functionality, remembering preferences, security and analytics.

Some cookies or similar technologies may be necessary for the website to operate.

Where cookies or similar technologies are not strictly necessary, we will obtain consent where required by applicable law before using them.

UK rules generally require websites to tell visitors when cookies or similar technologies are being used, explain their purpose and, where applicable, obtain consent. See ICO guidance.

Third-party services, including embedded YouTube content, may also use their own cookies or similar technologies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some websites or embedded content.

We may use third-party services to operate, host, secure or improve the Gun to Tape website. These may include services such as:

• Website hosting providers
• Video hosting services such as YouTube
• Social media platforms
• Email providers
• Website analytics or security services, where used

These third parties may process personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

If you contact Gun to Tape by email, your message and contact details will be used to respond to your enquiry.

We may retain correspondence where reasonably necessary to maintain a record of enquiries, provide services, resolve disputes or meet legal obligations.

We will not add you to a marketing mailing list simply because you have emailed us.

If we introduce marketing communications in the future, we will comply with applicable data protection and electronic marketing requirements.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information.

We may share personal information with third-party service providers where this is reasonably necessary to operate our website, communicate with you or provide our services.

We may also disclose information where required to do so by law, court order, regulatory requirement or other lawful process.

Where we use third-party processors to handle personal information on our behalf, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that they process information in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

Some of the third-party services used by Gun to Tape may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer is lawful and that appropriate safeguards are in place where required under UK data protection law.

We will only retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

For example, correspondence relating to an enquiry may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to deal with the enquiry and maintain appropriate business records.

Where information is required for legal, accounting or regulatory purposes, we may retain it for the period required by law.

When personal information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete or dispose of it.

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal information we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
• Request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances
• Request restriction of processing in certain circumstances
• Object to certain processing of your personal information
• Request the transfer of your information to another organisation where applicable
• Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our lawful basis

These rights are subject to certain legal conditions and exemptions.

If you would like to exercise one of these rights, please contact us at: guntotape@gmail.com

We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.

If you have concerns about how Gun to Tape has handled your personal information, we encourage you to contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s independent supervisory authority for data protection.

You can find information about the ICO and how to make a complaint on its website.

The Gun to Tape website is not specifically directed at children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where doing so would breach applicable data protection law.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against accidental loss, unauthorised access, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, technology or applicable legal requirements.

The date at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was last updated.

We recommend checking this page periodically for any changes.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we process personal information, or your data protection rights, please contact: