Privacy Policy
Last updated: 27 October 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to the official website of Rob Beattie Music. Your privacy is important to me. This policy explains what personal information may be collected when you visit this website, contact me, buy a book or purchase music, and how that information is used and protected.
For the purposes of applicable UK data protection law, I am responsible for the personal information collected through this website, subject to the roles and responsibilities of third-party service providers.
2. Information I Collect
I may collect the following information when you use this website:
- Contact enquiries: Your name, email address and any information you include when you submit a message through the contact form.
- Music and book purchases: Information necessary to process orders, such as your name, email address, billing details, delivery address where applicable, and details of the products purchased.
- Payment and transaction information: Details relating to your order and payment, such as the payment method used, transaction reference and payment status. Payments are processed through PayPal or Stripe, depending on the option selected at checkout.
- Website usage: Basic technical information, such as your IP address, browser type and pages visited, where collected by the website, its hosting provider or services used on it.
Please do not include sensitive personal information in messages sent through the contact form.
3. How I Use Your Information
Your information may be used to:
- Respond to enquiries and requests for information.
- Process and fulfil orders for digital downloads, physical CDs and books, where offered.
- Arrange delivery of physical products.
- Process payments and maintain transaction records.
- Provide customer support and deal with refunds or other order-related issues.
- Maintain the security and proper functioning of the website and help prevent fraudulent transactions.
- Meet applicable legal, tax and accounting obligations.
I process personal information where necessary to fulfil a contract with you, comply with legal obligations, or pursue legitimate interests such as operating and securing the website and managing customer orders. Where consent is required, for example for certain non-essential cookies, I will seek it.
I will not use your contact enquiry details to send unsolicited marketing emails.
4. Orders and Payments via PayPal and Stripe
Orders for downloadable WAV files and physical CDs are processed through the website’s checkout facilities, with payments handled by PayPal or Stripe, depending on the payment option selected.
When you place an order, information necessary to complete the transaction may be shared with the relevant payment provider. This may include your name, email address, billing details, delivery address where applicable, order information and payment-related details.
PayPal and Stripe process personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies, security procedures and applicable legal requirements. They may also process information for purposes such as payment authorisation, fraud prevention, regulatory compliance and dispute resolution.
I do not intend to collect or store your full payment card details on this website. The precise information processed by each payment provider depends on the payment method and checkout arrangements.
Your order information may be retained for customer service, order fulfilment, refunds and legal, tax or accounting purposes.
Digital downloads: Your email address may be used to provide download links and deal with any problems relating to your purchase.
Physical products: Your name and delivery details will be used to fulfil your order and arrange delivery.
For further information about how these providers handle personal information, please see their privacy policies:
5. Amazon Associates Links
This website contains links to Amazon through my Amazon Associates account. If you click one of these links and make a qualifying purchase, I may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
Amazon may use cookies or similar technologies to track referrals and purchases in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies. Amazon’s processing of your personal information is governed by its own policies.
I do not control how Amazon collects or uses information when you visit its website.
6. Cookies
This website may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for its operation, including those used for shopping, checkout, payment processing or digital downloads.
Third-party services, including Amazon, PayPal and Stripe, may also use cookies or similar technologies in connection with their services. The cookies and technologies used will depend on how these services are integrated into the website.
Where required by law, consent will be requested before non-essential cookies or similar technologies are used.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website features, including shopping and checkout.
7. Sharing Your Information
I do not sell your personal information.
Information may be shared with service providers where necessary to operate the website, host it, process payments through PayPal or Stripe, fulfil orders, provide digital downloads, arrange delivery or comply with legal obligations.
These providers receive information as necessary for the services they provide. PayPal, Stripe and other third parties may also process personal information under their own legal responsibilities and privacy policies.
Where personal information is transferred outside the UK, applicable data protection requirements and safeguards will apply where required.
8. How Long Information Is Kept
Contact enquiries will be kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to them and deal with any follow-up.
Order and transaction records may need to be retained for longer to meet legal, tax and accounting requirements, or to resolve disputes and handle customer service matters.
Information will be securely deleted or disposed of when it is no longer needed, where appropriate and subject to any legal retention requirements.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to your personal information.
- Ask for inaccurate information to be corrected.
- Request deletion of your information, where applicable.
- Request restriction of certain processing.
- Object to certain processing.
- Request a copy of information you have provided in certain circumstances.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exceptions.
If you have a concern about how your personal information is handled, you can contact me using the details below. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
10. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal information is handled, please use the contact form on this website or write to me at:
Rob Beattie
61 Lyndhurst Road
Hove
East Sussex
BN3 6FD
11. Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, payment services or applicable legal requirements. The latest version will be available on this website, with the date of the most recent update shown at the top.