Jenny Jones Celebrant Services offers a range of bespoke ceremonies. This includes but is not limited to weddings, civil partnerships, funerals, naming and adoption ceremonies and vow renewals.
In order to create and perform a ceremony which is unique to you, we will collect certain personal information. This may be about you, your family, and your friends. You are fully in control of how much information you want to include in any ceremony we conduct for you.
All of our ceremonies are conducted by Jenny Jones and for purposes of remuneration, she operates as a sole trader.
It is really important to us that we operate within the law. This policy lays out our position regarding personal information held by us in order to offer the range of services in line with our vision of providing exemplary service.
You have certain rights with regards to your data. This policy is to ensure that you are aware of the information collected, how it is stored, who it might be shared with, how long it is stored and when it is deleted. It also lets you know any circumstances you might be asked for your consent to share your information. If anything is unclear and you have any questions, please ask.
Under GDPR laws, we must provide you with the following information. Our name, address and email address. It is likely this will all be included in any emails we send you.
According to the Data Protection Act 1998 as amended in 2018, as a sole trader Jenny Jones acts as a data controller.
We collect and use your data under the category of “legitimate business, consent or vital and lawful interest”. This policy sets out what that means below in terms of your ceremony.
In reference to special category data (which is anything related to race, ethnic origin, politics, religion, trade union membership, genetics, biometrics, health, sex life or sexual orientation), we will only collect these under the category of legitimate business interest as needed to allow us to create your bespoke ceremony. Your approval of the final version of your ceremony will reflect your wish for this information to be used.
The information we will keep
As part of creating ceremonies we may collect information from you about you, your friends and family which may include names and stories about you and them which are central to your ceremony. We will use your contact information to respond to any enquiries and for invoicing you for any related charges.
We will store your information securely, using passwords for electronic/online means and locked up for paper-based. We will not hold information on you for longer than necessary and will delete as soon as possible after your ceremony. Some information is required to be kept for up to 6 years for accounting/auditing purposes.
In order to manage your information these data/sources may apply:
Cookies are created via the Jenny Jones Celebrant Services website (because anytime you visit a website online, cookies are created). We do not analyse or use your cookie data for anything.
The above information may be shared in the following ways:
Your right to see information held or to ask it to be removed
Consent
We may ask your permission to share images of your day, if you don’t want this, please feel free to decline.
Review
This policy has been reviewed on 2nd April 2024 and will be reviewed annually.
Jenny Jones Celebrant
Stratford upon Avon
07922537723