Privacy Policy

Your Privacy is important to Virtual Admin Assistant and we are committed to protecting your personal data at all times.

We understand and respect the value of privacy for all of our clients, staff and volunteers. We will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here and in a way that is consistent with our legal obligations and your rights under UK data protection law.

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information:

  • Contact details

  • What information we collect, use, and why

  • Lawful bases and data protection rights

  • Where we get personal information from

  • How long we keep information

  • How to complain

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 7583 523554

Email: mel@VAAUK.com

We collect or use the following information to provide and improve products and services for clients:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Occupation

  • Date of birth

  • Marital status

  • Third party information (such as family members or other relevant parties)

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Transaction data (including details about payments to and from you and details of products and services you have purchased)

  • Information relating to compliments or complaints

  • Video recordings

  • Records of meetings and decisions

  • Account access information

  • Website user information

We collect or use the following personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Purchase or service history

  • Account information, including registration details

  • Information used for security purposes

  • Marketing preferences

  • Technical data, including information about browser and operating systems

We collect or use the following personal information for information updates or marketing purposes:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Profile information

  • Marketing preferences

  • Purchase or account history

  • Website and app user journey information

Staff recruitment, administration and management

We collect or use the following personal information as part of staff recruitment, administration and management:

  • Contact details (eg name, address, telephone number or personal email address)

  • Photographs (eg staff ID card)

  • Professional Indemnity Insurance

  • ICO Certificate

  • Salaries and pensions

  • We collect or use the following personal information as part of managing salaries and pensions:

  • Time spent working (eg timesheets or clocking in and out)

  • Bank account details

  • Staff health and wellbeing

We collect or use the following personal information for managing staff health and wellbeing:

General health and wellbeing information

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

Analytics

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

  • This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Form Blocks

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also provide this information with [storage method(s)] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data in respect of clients

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide and improve products and services for clients are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of client or customer accounts are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for information updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data in respect of staff recruitment, administration and management

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information as part of staff recruitment, administration and management are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information as part of managing salaries and pensions are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information as part of managing staff health and wellbeing are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Where we get personal information from

Directly from you.

How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?

All data is deleted upon termination of contract in respect of client and staff recruitment.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office,

Wycliffe House,

Water Lane,

Wilmslow,

Cheshire,

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Privacy Policy Changes

This policy may change from time to time so please check this page occasionally.

This Privacy Notice was last updated on 28th April 2026.