Last updated: 24 August 2026
1. Who We Are
Let’s Advocate CIC (“Let’s Advocate”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly.
Our website is: https://lets-advocate.org
If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, you can contact us at:
Email: victoria@lets-advocate.org
Let’s Advocate is responsible for deciding how and why your personal information is processed through this website
2. What Information We Collect
We only collect personal information that we need for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Depending on how you interact with our website, this may include:
- Your name
- Email address
- Contact details
- Information you provide when contacting us
- Information you provide when enquiring about collaboration, workshops, training, advocacy or consultancy
- The content of comments you leave on our blog
- Your IP address and browser information when you comment
- Any other information you voluntarily provide to us
Please avoid including sensitive or confidential personal information in public blog comments.
3. How We Collect Your Information
We may collect information when you:
- Contact us through our website
- Submit an enquiry through our contact form
- Leave a comment on one of our blog posts
- Communicate with us by email
- Interact with our website
We may also automatically collect limited technical information about visitors to our website through cookies and similar technologies.
4. How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Respond to enquiries and messages
- Communicate with you about potential collaborations
- Discuss workshops, training, advocacy or consultancy opportunities
- Respond to comments and manage our blog
- Maintain and improve our website
- Monitor website performance and understand how visitors use our website
- Protect our website against spam, misuse and security threats
- Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
We will not use your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those described in this Privacy Policy without providing you with appropriate information first.
5. Our Lawful Basis for Processing
Under UK data protection law, we need a lawful basis for processing personal information.
Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
Legitimate interests
We may process information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as responding to enquiries, managing our website, developing our work and maintaining appropriate communication with individuals and organisations who contact us.
We will only rely on legitimate interests where the processing is proportionate and does not unfairly override your rights and interests.
Consent
Where we rely on your consent, we will ask for it clearly and explain what you are consenting to. Where applicable, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
Legal obligation
We may process personal information where necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
The lawful basis we rely on will depend on the specific circumstances and the purpose for which the information is being processed.
6. Comments
Our website allows visitors to leave comments on blog posts.
When you submit a comment, we may collect the information provided in the comment form, together with your IP address and browser information. This information helps us manage comments and identify or prevent spam.
Your name and comment may be publicly visible if your comment is approved and published.
Please do not include personal, confidential or sensitive information in a public comment.
We may remove comments that are abusive, discriminatory, threatening, unlawful, contain personal information about another person, or otherwise do not comply with our commenting standards.
7. Contact Forms
Our website uses Jotform to provide our contact form.
When you submit an enquiry through our contact form, we may collect information such as your name, email address and any other information you choose to provide.
We use this information to respond to your enquiry and, where relevant, discuss potential collaborations, workshops, training, advocacy or consultancy opportunities.
Jotform processes information submitted through its platform in accordance with its own privacy practices.
You can read Jotform’s Privacy Policy here:
8. Website Hosting
Our website is built using WordPress and hosted through IONOS.
IONOS may process certain technical information necessary to provide, secure and maintain our website.
This may include information such as IP addresses, technical information about your device and information relating to website access.
You can find further information about IONOS’s privacy practices through its privacy information.
9. Website Analytics and Performance
We use website tools to help us understand and improve the performance of our website.
We currently use RankingCoach Advanced through IONOS as part of our website management and optimisation.
The information collected and the technologies used may depend on how this service is configured on our website.
We will update this Privacy Policy where necessary if our use of analytics, tracking or other technologies changes.
10. Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies may be used to understand website performance or improve the experience of visitors.
Where consent is required for non-essential cookies, we will ask for your consent before setting those cookies.
You can manage or withdraw your cookie preferences where our cookie management system allows you to do so.
We will update our cookie information when additional services or technologies are introduced.
11. Embedded Content
Some pages on our website may contain content from other websites, such as videos, images or other embedded material.
Embedded content from third-party websites may collect information about you, use cookies or similar technologies, and monitor your interaction with that content.
For example, if we embed content from Instagram, YouTube or another third-party platform, that platform may process information according to its own privacy policy.
We will update this Privacy Policy as necessary when we introduce additional embedded services.
12. Who We Share Your Information With
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share personal information with service providers who help us operate our website and provide our services, where this is necessary.
These may include:
- Website and hosting providers
- Jotform, where you submit information through our contact form
- Website performance or optimisation providers
- Security and spam prevention services
- Professional advisers where necessary
- Public authorities or regulators where we are legally required to do so
Where we use third-party service providers, we take reasonable steps to ensure that personal information is handled appropriately.
13. International Transfers
Some of the service providers we use 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 carried out in accordance with applicable data protection law.
14. How Long We Keep Your Information
We only keep personal information for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including where necessary to meet legal, accounting or reporting requirements.
For example:
- Contact enquiries: We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to and manage the enquiry and any resulting relationship.
- Blog comments: We may retain comments and associated information for as long as the comment remains published, unless there is a reason to remove it.
- Other information: Retention periods will depend on the nature and purpose of the information.
We regularly review the personal information we hold and securely delete or anonymise information when it is no longer required.
15. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may have rights under UK data protection law, including the right to:
- Request access to the personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances
- Ask us to restrict how we use your information in certain circumstances
- Object to certain types of processing
- Request the transfer of your information where the right to data portability applies
- Withdraw consent where we rely on consent as our lawful basis
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances.
If you would like to exercise one of your rights, please contact us at:
16. How to Make a Privacy Request
If you would like to ask us what personal information we hold about you, request a correction or exercise another data protection right, please email:
Please provide enough information for us to understand your request and identify the information concerned.
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
17. Complaints
If you have concerns about how we have 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), which is the UK’s independent supervisory authority for data protection.
You can find information about making a complaint on the ICO’s website:
Information Commissioner’s Office
18. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, technology or legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we use personal information.