Privacy Notice

The data controller for joequarcoo.com is Joseph Dennis Nii Noi Quarcoo, professionally known as Joe Quarcoo. This is Joe Quarcoo’s personal professional website.

The footer credit “Powered by Guiding Light Press” is a website-production and publishing-support credit. It does not, by itself, make Guiding Light Press the controller of personal data collected through joequarcoo.com. Joe Quarcoo is an individual, not a registered company.

When you use this website, the following categories of information may be collected:

• Information you provide directly through an enquiry form — your name, email address, organisation name (if you choose to give it), the enquiry category you select, and any message or information you voluntarily include.
• Information generated through subsequent correspondence relating to your enquiry, such as replies and any further details you share.
• Technical information collected automatically when you visit the site, including IP address, browser and device type, request time, pages visited, approximate country, and security or logging information needed to operate and protect the website.
• Your cookie preferences, where you have made a choice through the cookie banner.
• Information generated when you deliberately load third-party media (for example a YouTube video or Spotify player) on a page, which is then processed by that third-party provider in line with their own terms.

Joequarcoo.com does not currently operate a newsletter or marketing mailing list. The website does not use its enquiry forms to subscribe visitors to marketing communications.

Please do not submit unnecessary sensitive, medical, financial or confidential information through the enquiry forms. If such detail becomes relevant, Joe will discuss a more appropriate way to share it.

• Direct submission through an enquiry form on this website.
• Subsequent correspondence that follows from your enquiry.
• Essential hosting and security logs generated automatically as part of operating and protecting the website.
• Optional external-media or analytics technologies, which are only activated after the required choice or consent has been given through the cookie banner.

Your information is used for the following purposes, on the lawful bases indicated:

• Responding to your enquiry and taking requested pre-contractual steps — necessary to respond to your request.
• Managing speaking, media, research, programme, book, music, board, consultancy or partnership conversations that arise from your enquiry — necessary for those requests and, where relevant, the legitimate interests of running a personal professional website and professional records.
• Administering this personal professional website and maintaining professional records — legitimate interests.
• Detecting and protecting against security issues, misuse and fraud — legitimate interests and legal obligations.
• Meeting legal obligations where they apply.
• Relying on your consent for optional cookies and optional external media, where consent is required. Consent is not used as the ordinary basis for handling enquiries where necessity or legitimate interests applies.

Information is shared only where necessary for the purposes above, including with:

• Hostinger, for website hosting, the integrated backend, technical security, form storage and delivery, and high-level traffic reporting.
• The provider of the [email protected] mailbox, for receiving and managing correspondence.
• Advisers or authorities where this is legally required.
• YouTube/Google, Spotify and other genuinely embedded media providers, but only when you choose to load or visit that media on a page.
• TikTok or Meta/Instagram, only if a relevant embed from those providers is actually loaded on a page.

Guiding Light Press is not stated as a routine recipient of personal data unless an actual workflow establishes that it receives and processes particular information.

Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, the relevant provider is responsible for putting appropriate lawful transfer safeguards in place. This notice does not claim that all data stays within the UK.

Retention periods are proportionate to the purpose:

• General, speaking, media, programme or partnership enquiries: up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication.
• Unsuccessful employment, board or professional opportunities: up to 12 months after conclusion.
• Records relating to an active agreement, legal claim, financial matter or statutory obligation: up to six years where reasonably necessary.
• Security and spam records: normally no longer than 90 days, unless needed for an incident investigation.
• Cookie preferences: kept for a proportionate period to remember and demonstrate your choice.
• There is no newsletter or marketing list to retain.

Information will be deleted earlier where it is no longer required for the purpose it was collected for, or where you successfully exercise a right to erasure.

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• Access the personal information held about you.
• Have inaccurate information rectified.
• Request erasure of your personal information.
• Restrict processing in certain circumstances.
• Object to processing.
• Receive your personal information in a portable format, where applicable.
• Withdraw consent at any time for processing based on consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
• Complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complaints/.

To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected].

This is a general professional portfolio and is not designed to collect children’s personal information. Children should not submit forms without appropriate adult support. The mention of youth-related projects on this website does not imply that those projects are operated through these forms.

Proportionate technical and organisational safeguards are in place. However, transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure, and this cannot be guaranteed.

This website contains links to external sites and embedded third-party services. Those sites and services have their own privacy practices, which are not controlled by Joe Quarcoo.

This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time. The “Last updated” date above shows when it was last revised. For any privacy enquiry, contact [email protected].