Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 October 2026

About this website

Linda’s Cakes is a personal website created to share photographs of cakes and related journal posts.

It is not a business and does not accept orders or payments through the website.

This website is operated by Linda Donald. If you appear in a photograph or story on this website and would like it changed or removed, please get in touch using the email address below.

If you have any questions about this policy or how your information is handled, please contact:

Email: linda@lindas-cakes.co.uk

Information you provide

The website does not contain a contact form and does not ask visitors to create an account.

If you choose to contact us by email, we may receive:

  • Your name and email address
  • Any other contact details you provide
  • The contents of your message and subsequent correspondence

Please only include information that is relevant to your message.

Technical information

Limited technical information, such as an IP address, browser information or security logs, may be processed automatically by the website hosting provider when you visit the site.

This information is used only to deliver, maintain and protect the website.

How we use your information

Information you provide may be used to:

  • Read and respond to your message
  • Keep a record of relevant correspondence
  • Maintain and protect the website
  • Comply with a legal obligation where necessary

Our lawful basis

Where you contact us, information is processed on the basis of our legitimate interest in receiving and responding to correspondence.

Limited technical information may be processed for the legitimate interest of operating and protecting the website.

We will only use personal information where these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

Sharing your information

We do not sell, rent or use personal information for marketing.

Information may be processed by trusted website-hosting and email-service providers where necessary to provide those services.

Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect someone’s rights or safety.

International processing

Some technology providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, reasonable steps are taken to ensure that appropriate data-protection safeguards are in place.

How long we keep your information

Email correspondence will only be kept for as long as it remains reasonably necessary.

Routine messages will normally be deleted within 12 months of the last meaningful contact, unless there is a valid reason to retain them for longer.

Technical information is retained by the website-hosting provider according to its own security and retention practices.

Cookies and analytics

This website does not use analytics, advertising or marketing cookies.

The website-hosting provider may use limited technologies that are strictly necessary to deliver, secure and operate the website.

These are not used by us to track visitors for advertising or marketing purposes. The Share on Facebook links open Facebook’s own website, which has its own privacy and cookie policies.

How we protect your information

Reasonable organisational and technical measures are used to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure.

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

Your data-protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

  • Ask for a copy of the personal information held about you
  • Ask for inaccurate information to be corrected
  • Ask for your information to be deleted
  • Ask for the use of your information to be restricted
  • Object to certain uses of your information

Not every right applies in every situation.

To make a request, please use the email address at the beginning of this policy.

Making a complaint

If you have concerns about how your information has been handled, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve the matter.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the United Kingdom’s data-protection regulator.

Website: ico.org.uk
Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated if the website or the way information is handled changes. The latest version will always be published on this page.

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