Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 August 2026

 Walking in His Light respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, store and protect your personal information when you visit www.walkinginhislight.co.uk, join the Walking in His Light email community, contact me, download resources, or purchase products directly through this website.

For UK data protection law, the data controller is:

Patrice Swanson-Kerr, trading as Walking in His Light
Website: www.walkinginhislight.co.uk
Email: patrice@walkinginhislight.co.uk

1. Information I may collect

Depending on how you interact with this website, I may collect the following information.

Information you provide directly, including:

  • Your name

  • Email address

  • Billing and delivery address

  • Telephone number, where required for an order or delivery

  • Details relating to an order

  • Messages you send through the contact form or by email

  • Your email marketing preferences

  • Any information you voluntarily provide when requesting a signed or personalised copy

Information collected automatically when you use the website may include:

  • IP address

  • Browser and device information

  • Pages visited

  • Approximate location derived from technical information

  • Referring website

  • Information collected through cookies and similar technologies

I do not intentionally collect special category personal information, such as information about your health, political opinions or religious beliefs, through this website. Please avoid including sensitive personal information in contact forms or emails unless it is genuinely necessary.

2. How I use your information

I may use your personal information to:

  • Process and fulfil orders placed through the website

  • Take payment and arrange delivery

  • Communicate with you about an order

  • Respond to enquiries or messages

  • Provide customer service

  • Send emails you have requested or subscribed to

  • Send devotional reflections, biblical encouragement, book news, and other Walking in His Light updates where you have consented

  • Provide requested downloads or free resources

  • Maintain records relating to purchases and payments

  • Protect the website and detect misuse or fraudulent activity

  • Understand generally how visitors use the website and improve its content and functionality

  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting and regulatory obligations

  • Establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary

3. Lawful bases for processing

Under UK data protection law, I must have a lawful reason for using your personal information.

Depending on the circumstances, I rely on the following lawful bases:

Contract - where processing your information is necessary to fulfil an order you have placed or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.

Consent - where you voluntarily subscribe to receive email communications or consent to non-essential cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time.

Legitimate interests - where it is reasonably necessary to operate and protect Walking in His Light, respond to enquiries, understand how the website is used, improve services, or maintain appropriate business records, provided those interests do not override your privacy rights.

Legal obligation - where information must be processed or retained to comply with tax, accounting, consumer protection or other legal requirements.

4. Email marketing and MailerLite

If you join the Walking in His Light community, your name, where provided, and email address will be used to send you communications such as:

  • Biblical encouragement

  • Devotional reflections

  • Book news and updates

  • New resources

  • Event information

  • Occasional news relating to Walking in His Light

Email marketing is currently managed using MailerLite.

You will not be required to receive marketing emails simply because you visit the website or purchase a book.

Where consent is relied upon, you may withdraw it at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in an email or by contacting:

patrice@walkinginhislight.co.uk

Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent me from sending necessary transactional communications relating to an order you have placed.

5. Purchases and payments

When you purchase a book or another product directly through this website, information necessary to process the transaction may be shared with Squarespace and the relevant payment processor.

Walking in His Light does not need to receive or store your complete payment card details where an external payment provider processes payment.

Payment processing is provided through Squarespace Payments.

Squarespace Payments processes certain personal information in accordance with its privacy policies.

6. Squarespace

Squarespace hosts this website.

Squarespace provides the website platform and may process information about visitors and customers to provide website hosting, commerce, security, analytics and related functionality.

Squarespace websites may use cookies and integrations that process visitor information. Further information about cookies is provided in the Cookie Policy.

7. Amazon

The website may contain links allowing you to purchase Walking in His Light through Amazon UK, Amazon US, Amazon Canada or other Amazon marketplaces.

If you select an Amazon link, you leave this website and your activity on Amazon is governed by Amazon's own privacy policy, terms and cookie practices.

Walking in His Light does not control how Amazon processes information relating to purchases made directly through Amazon.

8. Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files placed on your device that may be required for the website to function or may help provide functions such as shopping carts, preferences, analytics or integrations.

Cookies may include:

Essential cookies
These are necessary for the operation, security and basic functionality of the website.

Functional cookies
These may remember choices or provide additional website functionality.

Analytics cookies
Where enabled and consented to, these may help understand how visitors use the website.

Marketing or third-party cookies
These may be placed by third-party integrations where such services are enabled.

Under UK rules, non-essential cookies should generally not be placed before the required consent has been obtained. Squarespace provides controls that can restrict non-essential cookies and allow visitors to accept, decline or manage them.

You can manage your choices through the cookie banner/cookie preferences available on this website.

More information is provided in the separate Cookie Policy.

9. Who I may share your information with

I do not sell your personal information.

Where reasonably necessary, information may be shared with trusted service providers that help operate Walking in His Light, including:

  • Squarespace — website hosting and e-commerce

  • MailerLite — email subscriptions and communications

  • Payment processors

  • Delivery and postal providers

  • IT, website or technical support providers

  • Professional advisers such as accountants or legal advisers

  • Government, tax, regulatory or law-enforcement authorities where required by law

These organisations only receive information necessary for the service they provide or where disclosure is legally required.

10. International transfers

Some service providers used by Walking in His Light may process or store personal information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, appropriate safeguards should be used where required by UK data protection law.

Third-party providers may rely on recognised transfer mechanisms or other lawful safeguards for international data transfers.

11. How long I keep information

Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to satisfy legal, accounting and reporting obligations.

In general:

  • Email subscribers: until you unsubscribe or ask for your information to be deleted, subject to limited suppression records needed to respect your opt-out.

  • Customer and order information: retained for the period reasonably necessary for fulfilment, customer service, accounting, tax and legal requirements.

  • Enquiries: retained only for as long as necessary to deal with the enquiry and any reasonable follow-up.

  • Website and analytics information: retained according to the settings and retention periods of the relevant website or analytics provider.

Information may be kept longer where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

12. Keeping your information secure

Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or misuse.

However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for keeping any passwords or account credentials you create secure.

13. Your data protection rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights in relation to your personal information, which may include:

  • The right to be informed about how your data is used

  • The right to access personal information held about you

  • The right to have inaccurate information corrected

  • The right to request deletion of your information in certain circumstances

  • The right to restrict processing in certain circumstances

  • The right to object to certain processing

  • The right to data portability in certain circumstances

  • The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

To exercise your rights, contact:

patrice@walkinginhislight.co.uk

I may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

14. Complaints

If you have a concern about how your personal information has been handled, please contact me first at:

patrice@walkinginhislight.co.uk

You also have the right to complain to the UK's independent data protection regulator:

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

Current contact and complaint information is available through the ICO's official website.

15. Children's privacy

Walking in His Light is not specifically designed to collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website without appropriate permission, please contact me so that the matter can be reviewed and, where appropriate, the information deleted.

16. External links

This website may contain links to third-party websites, including Amazon and social media platforms.

Following a third-party link may allow that third party to collect or process information about you.

Walking in His Light is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites. You should review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

17. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to the website, services, legal requirements or the way personal information is processed.

The latest version will always be published on this page, and the Last updated date will be changed accordingly.

18. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the way your personal information is handled, please contact:

Patrice Swanson-Kerr
Walking in His Light
Email: patrice@walkinginhislight.co.uk
Website: www.walkinginhislight.co.uk