Privacy Policy

Key Definitions

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person, such as a name, an email address, or an online identifier like an IP address. Processing means any operation performed on personal data, including collection, storage, use, and deletion.

The data controller is the person or organisation that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data. For this site, the controller is the site operator, whose contact details appear at the end of this policy and on our contact page (currently placeholders pending publication).

What Data We Collect

This is primarily an informational site, and you can read most of it without providing any personal data. We may process the following categories:

Contact data

If you send us a message through the contact form or by email, we receive the name, email address, and message content you choose to provide.

Technical data

Like most websites, our servers and any analytics tools may record technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, and pages visited.

Cookie data

We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our Cookie Policy.

Lawful Basis for Processing (Art. 6 UK GDPR)

We rely on the following lawful bases. For responding to enquiries you send us, our basis is legitimate interests, namely communicating with people who contact us. For non-essential cookies and analytics, our basis is your consent, which you can give or withhold and later withdraw. For meeting any legal obligations, such as retaining records we are required to keep, our basis is legal obligation.

Cookies and Analytics

We may use cookies that are strictly necessary for the site to function, and, with your consent, functional and analytics cookies that help us understand how the site is used. Analytics data is used in aggregate to improve content and is not used to identify individual readers. The specific cookies, their purposes, and their retention periods are listed in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing With Third Parties

We do not sell your personal data. We may share limited data with service providers who help us run the site, such as hosting and analytics providers, who act on our instructions under appropriate agreements. We may also disclose data where we are required to do so by law.

Where a provider processes data outside the UK, we take steps to ensure an adequate level of protection, for example through approved safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.

How Long We Keep Data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose it was collected. Enquiry correspondence is retained for as long as needed to handle your request and a reasonable period afterwards. Technical and analytics data is retained for a limited period and then deleted or anonymised. Cookie lifetimes are set out in the Cookie Policy.

Your Rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to ask for inaccurate data to be corrected, and to request erasure of your data in certain circumstances. You also have the right to restrict or object to processing, the right to data portability, and the right to withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority, at ico.org.uk.

Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect your information appropriately.

Contact and Data Protection

For any privacy question, or to exercise your rights, contact the data protection contact at the address below. These details are placeholders and will be replaced with live contact information before publication.

Data protection contact: [PLACEHOLDER NAME], [PLACEHOLDER POSTAL ADDRESS], email [PLACEHOLDER EMAIL]. You can also reach us through our contact page.