Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 2026

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and look after your personal data when you visit this website, tells you about your privacy rights, and explains how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

This website is owned by Martyn Percy and is technically operated and maintained by George Percy. Together, we act as joint data controllers responsible for this website.

Because we operate across both the UK and the European Union (Austria), this policy is designed to comply with the UK GDPR (Data Protection Act 2018 / Data Use and Access Act) and the EU GDPR.

Contact Details

  • Website Owner / Co-Controller (UK Contact): Martyn Percy

  • Site Administrator / Co-Controller (EU Contact): George Percy

  • Postal Address: Burggasse 44, Vienna, 1070, Austria

  • Email Address: info@martynpercy.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to a supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk). In Austria, this is the Datenschutzbehörde (DSB) (www.dsb.gv.at). Under UK and EU law, you have the right to complain directly to us first. We are committed to acknowledging any complaint within 30 days and working to resolve it without undue delay.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data means any information from which a person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, including:

  • Identity Data: First name and last name (if provided via a contact form).

  • Contact Data: Email address or telephone number.

  • Technical Data: IP address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform (collected automatically by Squarespace).

  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, pages visited, and search terms.

  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving updates or newsletters from us.

3. How Your Personal Data Is Collected

We collect data using the following methods:

  • Direct Interactions: You voluntarily give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms (such as contact forms) or by corresponding with us by email.

  • Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, the Squarespace platform automatically collects Technical Data about your equipment and browsing patterns using cookies and similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data (Legal Basis)

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we rely on:

  • Consent: Where you have explicitly agreed to let us process your data (e.g., signing up for an email update). You can withdraw this consent at any time.

  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g., to respond to your inquiries, secure our website, and understand how visitors interact with our content), provided your fundamental privacy rights do not override those interests.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data. We only share your data with trusted service providers who are essential to running this website:

  • Squarespace, Inc.: Our website hosting and platform provider.

  • Email Service Providers: If you sign up for updates (e.g., Squarespace Email Campaigns or Mailchimp).

  • Analytics Providers: If enabled, we may use basic analytics to understand site traffic.

All third-party service providers are required to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International Transfers (The "Data Protection Test")

Because this website is hosted on the Squarespace platform, your personal data is transferred to and stored on servers located in the United States.

To ensure your data remains protected, these transfers comply with both UK and EU data protection laws. Squarespace, Inc. participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (and its UK Extension). Where necessary, we also rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission and the UK Information Commissioner's Office, satisfying the statutory Data Protection Test.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. Access to your personal data is strictly limited to Martyn Percy and George Percy, who have a business need to know.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, or reporting requirements.

If you contact us via a form, we will retain your email and message long enough to resolve your query, after which it will be securely deleted unless we have a legal obligation to keep it.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under UK and EU data protection laws, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Request Access: Receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

  • Request Correction: Have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.

  • Request Erasure: Ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.

  • Object to Processing: Object to us processing your data where we are relying on a legitimate interest.

  • Request Restriction of Processing: Ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data.

  • Request Portability: Transfer your data to you or a third party in a structured format.

  • Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@martynpercy.com.

10. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to help the site run effectively, provide a secure browsing experience, and analyse site performance.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. They can improve your browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.

The Cookies We Use

As a Squarespace website, we use two types of cookies:

  1. Functional and Required Cookies: These cookies are essential. They allow you to navigate the site safely and use key features.

  2. Analytics and Performance Cookies: If you consent via our cookie banner, these cookies collect information about how you interact with our site (e.g., which pages you visit most) to help us improve the site's layout and content.

Managing Cookies

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie banner. You can choose to accept or decline non-essential (analytics) cookies. You can also block or delete cookies entirely through your web browser settings.