Last updated: 2nd June 2026
1. Introduction
Make It Your Business (“MIYB”, “we”, “our”, “us”) is a not-for-profit initiative operating through our website makeityourbusiness.co.uk. We are committed to protecting your personal data, respecting your privacy, and building a secure, collaborative ecosystem for women in business.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your information when you visit our website, contact us, join our network, or subscribe to our updates. We comply fully with the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, and PECR.
2. Data We Collect
2.1 Information you provide directly
- Name and contact details
- Email address
- Business name and details
- Enquiries or stories submitted via our website forms
- Newsletter subscription and community registration details (via MailerLite)
2.2 Information collected automatically
When you visit our website, we automatically collect basic technical and analytics data to ensure the site functions correctly:
- IP address and general location
- Browser type, version, and device information
- Pages visited, time spent on the site, and referring websites
- Cookie data (essential and functional cookies only)
2.3 What we DO NOT collect
- No Advertising Data: Because Make It Your Business does not run commercial or paid advertising campaigns, we do not collect behavioural advertising data, demographic profiling data, or tracking pixel data from third-party advertising platforms.
3. How We Use Your Data
3.1 To run the ecosystem and network
- Responding to your enquiries and form submissions
- Managing community memberships, events, and network updates
- Amplifying and sharing your business stories (only with your explicit permission)
3.2 For communication and community updates
- Sending regular newsletters, resources, and community announcements via MailerLite (only where you have provided explicit consent)
3.3 For basic website analytics
- We use Google Analytics purely to measure website performance, track general user journeys, and improve the user experience. All data is anonymised, aggregated, and is never shared with advertising networks or used for profiling.
3.4 Legal basis for processing
We rely on the following legal bases under the UK GDPR:
- Consent: For newsletter subscriptions, community updates, and non-essential cookies.
- Legitimate Interest: For core business operations, website security, and basic performance analytics.
- Legal Obligation: For necessary financial or administrative record-keeping.
4. Sharing Your Data
We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We strictly do not share your information with commercial advertising networks. We only pass data to trusted service providers necessary to host our platform and communicate with our community:
| Provider | Purpose |
| MailerLite | Email newsletter delivery, community updates, and subscriber management. |
| Google Analytics | Website performance tracking and user experience improvements (anonymised). |
| Hosting Provider | Secure website hosting and standard security firewalls. |
5. International Transfers
Some of our trusted technical providers (such as MailerLite and Google) may process or store data outside of the United Kingdom. Where this occurs, we ensure that appropriate legal safeguards—such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)—are in place to protect your data to UK standards.
6. Data Retention
We only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for:
- Enquiry and contact forms: Up to 12 months from resolution.
- Community and Newsletter data: Retained until you choose to unsubscribe or request deletion.
- Analytics data: Retained in accordance with standard anonymised retention periods set within Google Analytics.
7. Your Rights
Under UK data protection laws, you hold the following rights regarding your information:
- Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we delete your data.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any point using the link in any email, or by contacting us directly.
- Right to Object/Restrict: You can object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address listed below.
8. Security
We take the security of your data seriously. We implement robust technical and organisational measures—including SSL encryption across our entire website, secure hosting frameworks, and restricted access controls—to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, loss, or misuse.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or if you wish to make a request regarding your data, please contact:
- Organisation: Make It Your Business (MIYB)
- Contact Name: Debbie Waite
- Email: hello@makeityourbusiness.co.uk
- Website: makeityourbusiness.co.uk