Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Canvas Autism Consultancy & Training (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses, disclose, and protect any personal information we collect about you when you use this website in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

 

Who we are

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Canvas Autism Consultancy & Training is operated by Kira McCarthy. Our website is canvasautism.com.  

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Last updated: (May 2026)

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What information we collect

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We only collect information from you that is necessary to provide our services. 

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We collect personal information about you when you:

• Contact us via our enquiry form or email

• Sign up to our mailing list or waitlist

• Purchase or access resources or programmes 

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The information we collect may include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.

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How we use your information

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We collect information about you to:

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• Respond to your questions and requests

• Personalise services to accommodate the needs of clients for service delivery

• Manage enquiries about services and the running of our programmes and events

• If you consent, email you about other products, services, and updates

• Fulfil our legal obligations under UK GDPR

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Canvas Autism Consultancy & Training will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside of our company.

Information Disclosure

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We may disclose personal information to trusted third parties who assist with service provision. This includes:

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• Wix (website and mailing list hosting)

• Mailerlite (email communication platform)

• Google Workspace applications (storing sign up lists and relevant information for clients)

 

 

Marketing

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We would like to send you information about products and services of ours which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt out at a later date. You can ask us at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email contact@canvasautism.com. 

 

Access to your information and correction

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You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email contact@canvasautism.com. 

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

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Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you

• Request correction of inaccurate data

• Request erasure of your personal data

• Restrict how we process your personal data

• Withdraw consent at any time

• Lodge a complaint with the ICO at ico.org.uk

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To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@canvasautism.com.

 

Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

 

Cookies Policy​

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Canvas Autism Consultancy & Training ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on canvasautism.com (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

 

What are cookies

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Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.

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• Wix (website hosting)

• Mailerlite (mailing list for subscriptions)

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How CANVAS Autism Consultancy & Training uses cookies

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When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

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We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, and to store your preferences.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service, and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

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• Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

• Analytics cookies: to understand how visitors use our website so we can improve it

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We may share website analytics data publicly. This information will always be anonymised and cannot be used to identify individual visitors.

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Third-party cookies

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In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

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What are your choices regarding cookies

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If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

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Where can you find more information about cookies

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You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

● AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
● Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

 

Changes to our privacy policy

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We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 18 May 2026.

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How to contact us

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Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you at email: contact@canvasautism.com