Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

1. Who We Are

K.T Designs is a UK-based freelance web design and digital services business. For the purposes of UK data protection law, K.T Designs is the data controller responsible for your personal data.

To get in touch, please use the contact form on our website.

2. What Data We Collect

When you submit an enquiry through our contact form, we collect the following personal data:

Your name
Your business or trade name
Your email address
Your phone number (if provided)
The content of your message

We do not use cookies, tracking pixels, or analytics tools on this website. We do not collect any data passively or automatically beyond standard web server logs retained by our hosting provider (Netlify).

3. Why We Collect It and Our Lawful Basis

We collect and process your personal data for the following purposes:

To respond to your enquiry — lawful basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR). We have a legitimate interest in responding to prospective client enquiries.
To enter into or perform a contract — if you become a client, we process your data as necessary to deliver the agreed services (Article 6(1)(b) UK GDPR).

4. How We Use Your Data

Your data is used solely to respond to your enquiry and, where applicable, to fulfil a service contract. We do not use your data for marketing without your explicit consent. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for their own purposes.

5. Who We Share Data With

Your contact form submissions are processed by Netlify (our hosting provider), which stores form data on servers within the United States. Netlify is certified under appropriate data transfer mechanisms. You can review Netlify's privacy policy at netlify.com/privacy.

We do not share your data with any other third parties unless required to do so by law.

6. How Long We Keep Your Data

Enquiry data is retained for no longer than 12 months from the date of receipt, unless a contract is entered into, in which case we retain relevant data for 6 years in accordance with UK legal requirements.

7. Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of access — to request a copy of the data we hold about you
Right to rectification — to request correction of inaccurate data
Right to erasure — to request deletion of your data where there is no lawful reason to retain it
Right to restrict processing — to request we limit how we use your data
Right to object — to object to processing based on legitimate interests
Right to data portability — to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format

To exercise any of these rights, please use the contact form on our website. We will respond within one calendar month.

8. Right to Complain

If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's supervisory authority for data protection.

ICO website: ico.org.uk — Helpline: 0303 123 1113

9. Changes to This Notice

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The date at the top of this page reflects when it was last revised. We encourage you to review it periodically.