Ascent Digital UK is committed to protecting the privacy of every visitor to this website.
Ascent Digital UK is a web design business in the East Midlands, run by S as a sole trader. We are the “controller” of the personal data described here. Contact: [email protected].
Free example requests (the “Get a Free Example” form): your name, business name, trade, town, email address, mobile number, current website, the Google or social profiles you share, your message, and how you found us (for example the page you came from or the advert you clicked).
Website briefs (the Get Started form): the above, plus your business type and company number, business address, areas covered, services, opening hours, the logo and photos you upload, your domain and your chosen plan.
Clients: the agreement you sign, billing details handled by our payment provider, and our emails with you.
We do not use tracking or advertising cookies, and we do not record your IP address ourselves. Our hosting provider’s form service records technical information, such as your IP address, to block spam; we do not use it.
To reply to you, build your free example website, prepare a quote, set up and run your website, take payment, and keep the records the law requires. We only send you tips or offers if you ticked the box asking for them, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
We look for established local limited companies whose website could be stronger, and sometimes build a free example website to show them what is possible. To do that we use information the business has published for customers to find it: its name, trade, town, public reviews and photos, and the business phone number or email address listed on sites such as Google, TrustATrader, Checkatrade, Facebook and Companies House. We only email limited companies at the business email address they publish; sole traders and partnerships we contact only by phone, post or in person, unless they have asked us to get in touch.
We do this on the basis of legitimate interest: offering a relevant service to a business. Example websites are not indexed by search engines and do not track visitors. They are taken down 90 days after our first email if we have not heard back, or straight away if you ask. If you would rather not hear from us, we stop immediately and keep only your business name and contact details on a do-not-contact list, so we never contact you again. To ask how we found you, see what we hold, or have it deleted, email [email protected].
We do not sell, rent or share your personal data. These service providers process it on our behalf, under their data processing terms:
Netlify (website hosting and form submissions) · Apple iCloud (our email and file storage) · Stripe (payments, for clients) · Cloudflare (registering and running client domains) · Google (Search Console for the websites we run) · Anthropic (Claude, an AI assistant we use to help research, draft and build websites; the business details you send may be processed by it).
Some of these providers are based in the United States. Where data leaves the UK, it is protected by the UK’s adequacy regulations or the UK International Data Transfer Addendum.
Your enquiry or brief: taking steps at your request before a contract, and our legitimate interest in replying. Clients: performing our contract with you, and our legal obligations (for example, keeping financial records). Tips and offers: your consent. Prospecting: legitimate interest, as above.
This website uses essential cookies only. We do not use tracking cookies, advertising pixels, or analytics that identify individual visitors.
Enquiries and briefs that do not become clients: deleted 12 months after our last contact. Prospecting details: deleted 12 months after our first contact if you have not replied. Clients: for the length of the agreement, then 6 years for tax and legal records. Do-not-contact list: kept for as long as we trade, so we never contact you again.
After deletion we keep only a business name, town, the date we first got in touch and the outcome, so we know who we have already contacted.
You can ask to see, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you, object to our use of it, or ask us to stop contacting you. Email [email protected] and we will reply within one month. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Ascent Digital UK
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Last updated: 14 October 2026