Privacy policy.

About This Privacy Policy

Smartblend is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Smartblend.

Data collection

1. What information do we collect?

In order to create work for our clients, we collect and use data for organisational purposes. This data will typically include your contact information: Your name, job title, business email address, business telephone number.

2. How do we collect your data?

There are a few different ways we could collect your data and these are as follows. We receive your information via email when you contact us. If you call us we will ask you during the conversation in order to assist you with your quotation/project. We will collect publicly available information from the organisation's website. We will collect it via our social media sites.

3. How do we use your personal data?

The personal data collected from the users will only be used in relation to the services offered by Smartblend.

To help with the booking of the project and keep contact throughout the working relationship.
To respond to any booking forms
To allow travel arrangements to be made for business related locations
To share content on social media
To send files to the customer via post or the internet
Contracts and invoices are mandatory when booking, and due to the legal nature, as kept in archive for present or future need.
To send newsletters and updates if you opt into our newsletter.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps

Cookies

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Aswell as google analytics for the same reasons.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies that differ from ours. Their policies and the way they collect and use data may also differ. We advise you to check the privacy policies of any outbound links you click directing you from this website.

Emails

When filling out a contact form on this site, or emailing us directly, we collect a small amount of data. That data being your email address and name.

We will hold on to this data for future project bookings or for newsletters if you have signed up to our email list.

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address

Visitor Data

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of (22/07/2020) and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.