Privacy Policy


1. INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site
www.calmrelaxedconfident.com
By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 18 years of age.
Stephanie Cavendish – Calm Relaxed Confident is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
Contact Details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Stephanie Cavendish Trading as Calm Relaxed Confident
Email address: [email protected]
Postal address: 6 Ealy Hill Cottages, Duntisbourne Abbots, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL77JPIt is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by emailing us at [email protected]

2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, FOR WHAT PURPOSE AND ON WHAT GROUND WE PROCESS IT
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
· Communication Data
that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
· Customer Data
that includes data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
· User Data
that includes data about how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back- ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business.
· Technical Data
that includes data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
· Marketing Data
that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to
enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are
to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
· We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (including Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Sensitive Data
We need to collect sensitive data about you in order to deliver the services and products. We will collect data about the health issues you are looking to soothe through our hypnotherapy services.
We require your explicit consent for processing sensitive data, so when you submit your details, we will send you a coaching agreement asking for you to confirm your consent to this processing.
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to deliver goods or services to you). If you don’t provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel a product or service you have ordered but if we do, we will notify you at the time.
We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at
[email protected]
. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.

3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may collect data about you by you providing the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the UK advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the UK, such as search information providers such as Google based outside the UK, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
We may also receive data from publicly availably sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the UK.

4. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations,
we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by emailing us at [email protected].
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.

5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below:
• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.

• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers.

• Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

• Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We are subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations that protect your personal data. Where we transfer your data to third parties outside of the UK, we will ensure that certain safeguards are in place to ensure a similar degree of security for your personal data. As such:
• We may transfer your personal data to countries that the United Kingdom regulatory authorities have approved as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data by; or

• If we use US-based providers that are part of UK regulator approved privacy framework, we may transfer data to them, as they have equivalent safeguards in place; or

• Where we use certain service providers who are established outside of the UK we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

7. DATA SECURITY
We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorisation. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.

8. DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers. In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.


9. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
You can see more about these rights at:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at [email protected] will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.
If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

10. THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

11. COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use please see our cookie policy.

FAQs

Will I lose control under Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is an “altered, relaxed, state of consciousness that is characterised by the bypassing of the critical faculties and increased susceptibility to suggestion”. When a person is under hypnosis, suggestions don’t pass through the critical faculties of normal consciousness. Instead, they enter the subconscious mind directly. Then, if these suggestions are accepted by the subconscious mind, the hypnotised person acts on them. However, the phrase “if these suggestions are accepted……” is key.  Hypnosis can not make you do anything that you do not want to do, or that is contrary to your moral or ethical values. You are in control at all times, you always know what is happening, and you can come out of the altered state at any time. Hypnosis will not make you unresponsive, lose your memory, lose control or reveal secrets. 

How effective is Hypnosis? 

Hypnotherapy is a highly effective, scientifically proven therapy, however, it also depends on your motivation and desire to change. You need to work alongside me and follow the full program of therapy, which includes practising the mindset exercises if you want to be able to continue to manage your physical reactions to stressful situations in the future. 

Cancellation Policy

My standard policy is that I require at least 48 hours notice of change to appointment time. If 24- 48 hours notice is given then 50% of the normal fee will be charged. If less than 24 hours notice is given then 100% of the normal fee will be charged. Having said that I recognise that challenging situations sometimes occur in life and my priority is always to treat people fairly and to try to re-arrange sessions. In the case of last minute cancellation or need to re-arrange, please call as soon as you can. Please do not book onto group programs if you will miss sessions. Recordings may not be available because of privacy and confidentiality.

What if I miss a group session?  

Each session builds upon the previous session and you need to practice the techniques I show you before the following session.  Please book a program you will be able to attend.  I cannot guarantee recordings of group sessions because of confidentiality.  The group program already includes one private session with me and I can run through the session you missed if that occurs before the private session has been taken. 

Is this a cure for Fibromyalgia?

No, at present there is no long term medical cure for Fibromyalgia.  I am not ‘removing’ Fibromyalgia, just as I cannot ‘re-grow’ a limb for my clients who have had life-changing accidents.  You will still have your diagnosis.  However, there are many ways to ease and soothe the collection of symptoms that together are called ‘Fibromyalgia’. I have gathered the techniques that have worked best to ease my own varied, fluctuating  symptoms of Fibromyalgia over the past 20 years and have created this program because there are so many people living alongside symptoms of Fibromyalgia.  Most of these people probably don’t’ have 20 years to try all the things I tried! 

How does the program work?

This program uses hypnotherapy relieve pain and soothe the symptoms of Fibromyalgia and anxiety. It then teaches you ways to calmly manage stress to reduce and prevent Flare Ups which will improve your Quality of Life in the long term. Once calm, and no longer distracted by pain, you can choose a new lifestyle that fits your life stage perfectly and I train you in ways to increase self-esteem, confidence, motivation and enthusiasm, so that you can enjoy living your Best Life. Calm, Relaxed, Confident – Despite Fibromyalgia 

Why is controlling our reaction to stress and anxiety such an important part of this program? 

Everyone who has Fibromyalgia knows that a lot of extra stress and anxiety will lead to a Fibromyalgia Flare up – more pain and worse symptoms. The Flare doesn’t necessarily happen immediately but in a day or two when there is seemingly no connection.  That is why people say they will ‘pay for it later’. This program reduces pain and other symptoms of Fibromyalgia AND teaches you how to manage stress and anxiety so that you can reduce the frequency and severity of Fibromyalgia Flares in the future. 

Do you offer a payment plan?

I accept payments by PayPal because they offer a PayPal Credit facility that you can set up before you book in with me. 

Can you help me stop smoking?

No, I don’t specialise in that area. I have a colleague I recommend who has an excellent track record for smoking cessation.  I regularly recommend people to colleagues who specialise in other areas of hypnotherapy.  

Frequently Asked Questions For Stephanie 

Is Stephanie ‘cured’? 

No, not from everything but I have other diagnoses as well as Fibromyalgia. 

Did these therapies enable Stephanie to get her life back on track without pain and brain fog?     

Yes.

Does Stephanie still need to use these techniques on a daily basis?    

Sometimes, yes, that’s the whole point of the program.  If I hear or see something that triggers my brain into starting my autonomic nervous system’s stress reaction, I need to calm it down by using these techniques.  None of us know what we will see and hear each day that will trigger us.

Does Stephanie still have hypnotherapy sessions?  

YES, I have excellent colleagues who help me sometimes.  I recommend them to clients who ask for help with issues I do not work with, like smoking cessation, weight loss, phobias etc.

Stephanie Cavendish BA(Hons) CHt, Tft-Adv

Certified Hypnotherapist since 2008

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