Essential Marketing UK
Last updated: 9 August 2026
Essential Marketing UK respects your privacy and is committed to keeping your personal information safe. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect when you visit or use the Essential Marketing UK website, why we may need it, and how we handle it.We have written this policy specifically for the Essential Marketing UK website so that you can understand our approach to your information without having to read complicated legal wording.
1. About Essential Marketing UK
Essential Marketing UK provides marketing and digital services for self-employed individuals, tradespeople and small businesses.Our services may include website creation, branding, business design, QR codes, business cards and other marketing support. For the purposes of data protection law, Essential Marketing UK is responsible for the personal information collected through this website.
2. Information We May Collect
We only collect information that is reasonably necessary for us to respond to enquiries, provide our services or operate and improve our website. Depending on how you use our website, this may include:
| ● Your name | ● Information about your business |
| ● Email address | ● Details about the services you are interested in |
| ● Telephone number | ● Information you choose to include in a contact form or message |
| ● Business or trading name |
| ● Basic technical information about your visit to our website |
| ● Information you choose to include in a contact form or message |
You do not normally need to create an account or provide personal information simply to browse our website.
3. Information You Choose to Send Us
If you contact Essential Marketing UK through our contact form, email or another method provided on the website, we will use the information you provide to understand your enquiry and respond to you. Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for your enquiry.
4. How We Use Your Information
We may use your information to:
| ● Respond to your enquiries | ● Prepare information or quotations requested by you |
| ● Discuss or provide our services | ● Communicate with you about an ongoing project |
| ● Provide customer support | ● Improve our website and services |
| ● Keep appropriate business records |
| ● Protect the website and prevent misuse |
| ● Meet legal or regulatory obligations where applicableWe will not use your personal information for unrelated purposes without a lawful reason to do so. |
5. Marketing Communications
Essential Marketing UK does not intend to send you unwanted marketing messages.
If we ever use your information to send marketing communications, we will do so in accordance with applicable data protection and electronic marketing laws.
You can ask us to stop sending marketing communications at any time.
6. Cookies and Website Technology
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies. Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function properly, while others may be used to understand how visitors use the website or to support website features. The exact cookies used may depend on the website platform, features and services connected to the website. You can control cookies through your browser and, where applicable, through the cookie settings provided on the website.
7. Third-Party Services
Essential Marketing UK may use third-party services to operate, maintain or improve the website. For example, the website may be hosted or supported by a website platform or may contain links to external websites and social media platforms. When you follow a link to another website, that website will have its own privacy policy and terms. Essential Marketing UK is not responsible for how another website handles your information.
8. How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable steps to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure. However, no website or method of transmitting information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. If you contact us online, you should therefore avoid sending information that is unnecessarily sensitive or confidential.
9. How Long We Keep Information
We only intend to keep personal information for as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. For example, information relating to an enquiry may be kept for a reasonable period so that we can respond to you and maintain appropriate business records. Where information is subject to a legal or accounting requirement to be retained for longer, we may keep it for the required period.
10. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights in relation to your personal information.
These may include the right to:
| ● Ask what personal information we hold about you | ● Ask us to correct inaccurate information |
| ● Ask us to delete information where there is no valid reason for us to keep it | ● Ask us to restrict how we use your information in certain circumstances |
| ● Object to certain uses of your information |
| ● Ask for your information to be provided to you in certain circumstances |
| ● Withdraw consent where we rely on your consent to process information |
If you would like to exercise a data protection right, please contact Essential Marketing UK using the details below.
11. Our Lawful Basis for Using Personal Information
Where applicable, we process personal information using a lawful basis permitted under UK data protection law.
Depending on the circumstances, this may include:
| ● Consent – where you have given us permission to use your information for a particular purpose. |
| ● Contract – where processing is necessary to provide a service you have requested. |
| ● Legitimate interests – where we have a genuine business reason to use information and your rights and interests are not unfairly affected. |
| ● Legal obligation – where we are required to process or retain information by law. |
If you would like to exercise data protection right, please contact Essential Marketing UK, using the details below.
12. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with trusted service providers where this is necessary to operate the website, communicate with you, provide a service or meet a legal obligation. Where third-party providers process information on our behalf, we expect appropriate measures to be in place to protect that information. We may also disclose information where required by law or where necessary to protect our legal rights, website or users.
13. External Links
Our website may contain links to websites such as social media platforms, business services or other useful resources. Once you leave the Essential Marketing UK website, the privacy practices of the external website will apply. We recommend checking the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.
14. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are intended primarily for businesses, self-employed individuals and adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for marketing purposes.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy if our website, services or the way we handle information changes. The latest version will always be published on this page, together with the date it was last updated.
16. Contact Essential Marketing UK
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, want to ask how your information is being used, or wish to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us.
Essential Marketing UK
Website : https://basicmarketninguk.wordpress.com
Email: essentionalmarketinguk@gmail.com
We will do our best to respond to privacy-related enquiries as soon as reasonably possible.
Essential Marketing UK
Simple marketing and digital solutions for self-employed professionals and small businesses.