Privacy Policy
Last updated: 19 April 2026
1. Who we are
The Housekeeper (“we”, “us”, “our”) is a housekeeping and property maintenance company based in North Wales. We are the data controller for the personal information collected through this website.
You can contact us at: bookings@thehousekeeper.wales
2. What information we collect
When you submit our online contact form, we collect the following information:
- Your full name
- Your email address
- Your phone number (optional)
- The content of your message
- Your IP address — used temporarily to prevent automated abuse of our contact form
We do not use cookies, analytics tools, or any other tracking technologies on this website. No information is collected about your browsing behaviour.
3. How we use your information
We use the information you provide solely to:
- Respond to your enquiry
- Prevent spam and abuse of our contact form (via temporary IP-based rate limiting)
We do not use your information for marketing purposes, profiling, or automated decision-making.
4. Legal basis for processing
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we rely on the following legal bases:
- Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — to respond to your enquiry and to protect our contact form from automated abuse.
- Contract (Article 6(1)(b)) — where your enquiry relates to entering into or performing a contract with us.
5. How we share your information
When you submit the contact form, your information is transmitted securely via Postmark (Wildbit LLC), an email delivery service. Postmark acts as our data processor and processes your information only on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions. Postmark is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and implements appropriate safeguards for international data transfers.
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with any other third parties.
6. Data retention
Your contact form submission is delivered to us by email. We retain that email, and any subsequent correspondence, for as long as is reasonably necessary to manage your enquiry and any resulting business relationship, typically no longer than 3 years from last contact.
IP addresses collected for rate-limiting purposes are held in temporary server memory only and are automatically deleted within 60 minutes of collection.
7. Your rights
Under UK GDPR you have the right to:
- Access — request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Erasure — ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction — ask us to restrict how we use your information.
- Object — object to our processing where we rely on legitimate interests.
- Portability — receive your information in a structured, commonly used format.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at bookings@thehousekeeper.wales. We will respond within one month.
8. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):
- Website: ico.org.uk
- Helpline: 0303 123 1113
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. We encourage you to review it periodically.