Your privacy matters to us. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have regarding your data when you visit Aesthetic Web Studio.
Aesthetic Web Studio is a professional web design agency specialising in custom WordPress websites for small businesses. Our website address is: https://aestheticwebstudio.com.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at hello@aestheticwebstudio.com.
When you complete a contact or enquiry form on our website, we collect your name, email address, and the contents of your message. We use this information solely to respond to your enquiry. We do not add you to any mailing list without your explicit consent.
If you subscribe to our newsletter via the footer form, we collect your email address for the purpose of sending you web design tips, updates, and occasional offers from Aesthetic Web Studio. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send.
If you leave a comment on our blog, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your comment. Your email address is not displayed publicly. We also collect your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our website. This collects anonymised data including pages visited, time spent on pages, geographic location (country and city level), device type, and traffic source. No personally identifiable information is collected through Google Analytics. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Our website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We use the following types of cookies:
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling.
We use a small number of trusted third-party services to operate our website. These may process your data on our behalf:
All third-party services we use are GDPR-compliant and operate under their own privacy policies.
Contact form submissions are retained for up to 12 months in our WordPress database, after which they are deleted. Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe. Analytics data is retained according to Google Analytics default retention settings (14 months).
Blog comments and their associated data are retained indefinitely to allow ongoing moderation and to maintain comment thread continuity.
Under GDPR and applicable data protection law, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at hello@aestheticwebstudio.com. We will respond within 30 days.
Some pages on our site may include embedded content such as videos or social media posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you had visited those websites directly. Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any embedded content providers.
Our website is hosted on servers located within the European Union via Hostinger. Google Analytics data is processed by Google and may be transferred internationally in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy. Contact form submissions remain on our hosting server and are not transferred internationally.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the date at the bottom of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we protect your data.
Last updated: July 2026