Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated [insert date]

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Most small businesses that handle personal information must pay an annual data protection fee to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and register. It is inexpensive and quick — please confirm your position at ico.org.uk so you are covered from day one.

01Who we are

CleanKeeps provides private home care for fine homes in Bath and the surrounding countryside. We are a husband-and-wife team, Kirsten and Warren, who care personally for a select number of homes.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, the data controller is [Warren Rossiter trading as CleanKeeps], of [business address]. If you have any questions about this policy or about how we handle your information, you can reach us at [email address] or [telephone number].

02The information we collect

We only collect the information we need to care for your home well and to keep in touch with you. This typically includes:

We do not knowingly collect any special category data, and we ask that you do not share sensitive personal information with us unless it is genuinely necessary for your care.

03How and why we use it

We use your information to provide and manage the home care you have asked us for, to arrange consultations and visits, to communicate with you, to invoice you, and to keep our own business records. Our lawful bases for doing so are:

04Keys and access

We understand that trusting someone with access to your home is a significant thing. Where you ask us to hold keys or access details, we keep them securely, label them discreetly so they cannot be linked to your address by anyone else, and limit access to them strictly to the two of us. Access information is never shared with third parties and is returned or destroyed when our arrangement ends.

05Sharing your information

We do not sell your information, and we never share it for marketing purposes. We share it only where it is necessary to run our service properly — for example with [our accountant or bookkeeper] for invoicing and tax, or with [a payment provider] to process payments. Any such providers act on our instructions and are required to keep your information secure.

We may also disclose information where we are required to by law, or to protect our rights, property or safety.

06How long we keep it

We keep your information only for as long as we need it. While you are a client, we keep it for the life of your care plan. After our arrangement ends, we keep the records we are legally required to retain — for example financial records, which UK law generally requires us to hold for six years — and then securely delete or destroy the rest.

07Keeping it secure

We take the security of your information seriously and use appropriate measures to protect it, including secure storage of physical keys and documents, password protection on our devices, and limiting access to your information to the two of us. No method of storage is ever completely secure, but we take reasonable care to safeguard everything you entrust to us.

08Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email address]. We will respond within the time limits set by law, and there is normally no charge.

09Marketing choices

We will only send you occasional updates — such as our seasonal journal — if you have asked us to. You can ask us to stop at any time, either by replying to any message or by contacting us directly, and we will remove you promptly.

10Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Please see our Cookie Notice for details of which cookies we use and how you can manage them.

11How to complain

If you have a concern about how we have handled your information, please tell us first — we would always rather put things right ourselves. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.

12Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of this page. Please check back occasionally to stay informed.