Privacy Notice

Last updated: 1 September 2026

This Privacy Notice explains how Nicola Morrison, trading as Welfare in Practice and professionally known as Nikki Morrison | Welfare in Practice, collects, uses and protects personal information through this website, nikkimorrison.com, and related professional enquiries.

For any privacy or data protection questions, please contact:

[email protected]

1. Who is responsible for your information

Nicola Morrison, trading as Welfare in Practice and professionally known as Nikki Morrison | Welfare in Practice, is the data controller for personal information collected through this website and related professional communications.

This means I am responsible for deciding how and why your personal information is used.

2. Information I collect

I may collect the following information when you use this website or contact me.

Contact form information

If you complete the contact form, I may collect:

  • first name;

  • last name;

  • organisation;

  • email address;

  • enquiry type;

  • message content;

  • any other information you choose to include in your message.

Articles & Insights sign-up information

If you sign up to receive updates, I may collect:

  • name or first name, if you provide it;

  • email address;

  • your consent to receive Articles & Insights updates and related professional updates from Nikki Morrison | Welfare in Practice.

Articles & Insights updates will be managed and sent using Squarespace Email Campaigns.

Website and technical information

When you visit the website, some technical information may be collected automatically by Squarespace or associated website services. This may include information such as:

  • IP address;

  • browser type;

  • device type;

  • pages visited;

  • approximate location;

  • referral source;

  • website usage information;

  • cookie preferences, where applicable.

I do not intend to use additional advertising or retargeting tools such as Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag or paid advertising tracking. If these are added later, this Privacy Notice and cookie information will be updated.

3. Providing your information

You do not have to provide personal information through this website. However, if you choose not to provide the information needed for a particular purpose, I may not be able to respond to your enquiry, provide information you have asked for, send updates you have signed up for, or discuss a potential professional engagement with you.

4. How I use your information

I use personal information for the following purposes.

To respond to enquiries

Information used: contact form and email information.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests and/or steps before entering into a contract.

To discuss consultancy, advisory, speaking, workshop, media or collaboration opportunities

Information used: contact details and message content.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests and/or steps before entering into a contract.

To manage client or project relationships if you become a client

Information used: contact details, project information and business correspondence.
Lawful basis: contract and legitimate interests.

To send Articles & Insights or email updates if you sign up

Information used: name or first name if provided, email address and consent record.
Lawful basis: consent.

To manage unsubscribe requests

Information used: email address and consent status.
Lawful basis: legal obligation and legitimate interests.

To maintain website security and functionality

Information used: technical and website usage information.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests.

To understand basic website performance

Information used: website analytics and usage information.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests and/or consent where required.

To comply with tax, accounting, legal or regulatory obligations

Information used: relevant business records.
Lawful basis: legal obligation and legitimate interests.

5. My legitimate interests

Where I rely on legitimate interests, these may include:

  • responding to professional enquiries;

  • managing professional relationships and correspondence;

  • developing and administering Nikki Morrison | Welfare in Practice;

  • keeping appropriate business records;

  • maintaining website security and basic website performance;

  • protecting my legal, professional and business interests.

I only rely on legitimate interests where I have considered that these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

6. Articles & Insights and email updates

If you choose to sign up for Articles & Insights or email updates, I will use your name or first name, if provided, and email address to send occasional professional updates from Nikki Morrison | Welfare in Practice.

You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any email, or by contacting:

[email protected]

I will not add you to a mailing list simply because you have sent an enquiry, unless you have separately agreed to receive updates.

7. Sensitive information

I do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through this website.

Please do not include confidential organisational information, identifiable animal cases, or health, disability, legal, financial, employment or other sensitive personal information in an initial enquiry through the contact form.

If you choose to include sensitive information in a message, I will handle it only where necessary to understand or respond to your enquiry, in line with data protection law, and I may delete information that is not needed for that purpose.

8. Cookies and website analytics

This website is built on Squarespace. Squarespace and associated website services may use cookies or similar technologies to make the website work properly, improve security, understand website traffic and support website performance.

Cookies may include:

  • essential cookies, which are needed for the website to function;

  • analytics or performance cookies, which help understand how visitors use the site;

  • third-party cookies, if embedded content, social media links or external services are used.

I do not knowingly use additional advertising or retargeting tools. If tools such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, online booking tools, payment processors or advertising platforms are added later, this Privacy Notice will be updated.

Non-essential cookies and similar technologies are only used where the required consent has been given.

You can use the cookie banner and the Cookie Preferences control on this website to manage or change your cookie choices at any time.

You can also usually manage cookies through your browser settings.

9. Who I share information with

I do not sell personal information.

I may share personal information only where necessary with:

  • Squarespace, including Squarespace Email Campaigns, as the website platform, contact form provider and email marketing provider where you sign up for Articles & Insights updates;

  • email and domain service providers used to receive and manage emails;

  • professional advisers, such as an accountant, insurer or legal adviser, where necessary;

  • service providers used for website administration, security, analytics or business administration;

  • authorities or regulators, if required by law.

If you click a link to an external platform, such as LinkedIn or another third-party website, that platform will handle your information under its own privacy notice and terms. I am not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.

10. International transfers

Some website, email or software providers may process personal information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States.

Where required, recognised safeguards for international transfers are used. For example, Squarespace states that it uses the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where applicable and approved contractual safeguards where necessary.

11. How long I keep information

I only keep personal information for as long as necessary.

General website enquiries

Usually up to 2 years after last contact.

Client or project records

Up to 6 years, as needed, for legal, tax, accounting or business-record purposes.

Articles & Insights sign-up records

Until you unsubscribe or ask to be removed, after which minimal details may be kept on a suppression list so that you are not contacted again.

Cookie and analytics information

According to the relevant platform settings and cookie duration.

Legal, complaint or dispute-related information

As long as reasonably necessary to protect legal rights or comply with obligations.

If information is no longer needed, it will be deleted, anonymised or securely archived.

12. How I protect information

I take reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

However, no website, email system or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Please take care when deciding what information to send through online forms or email.

13. Automated decision-making

I do not use personal information collected through this website for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects.

14. Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:

  • ask for access to your personal information;

  • ask for incorrect information to be corrected;

  • ask for information to be deleted;

  • object to certain uses of your information;

  • ask for use of your information to be restricted;

  • ask for a copy of your information in a portable format;

  • withdraw consent, where consent is the lawful basis;

  • complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

To exercise your rights, contact:

[email protected]

I may need to confirm your identity before responding to a request.

15. Complaints

If you are concerned about how your personal information is handled, please get in touch with me first so I can try to resolve the issue. If you make a data protection complaint, I will acknowledge it within 30 days and, without undue delay, take appropriate steps to respond, keep you informed and tell you the outcome.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK regulator for data protection.

You can make a complaint through the Information Commissioner’s Office complaints page.

16. Changes to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated from time to time, especially if new website features are added, such as:

  • online booking;

  • payment processing;

  • client portals;

  • Google Analytics;

  • advertising pixels;

  • retargeting tools;

  • downloadable resources requiring sign-up.

The latest version will be published on this website.