Privacy Policy
1.0 Our Philosophy
- User privacy and data protection are human rights
- We have a duty of care to the people whose data we collect
- Data is a liability. It should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary
- We hate spam just as much as you do!
- We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information
2.0 Relevant Data Protection Legislation
This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:
This site’s compliance with the above legislation means that this site is more than likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well.
3.0 Personal Information We Collect And Why
This website collects and uses personal information as outlined below.
3.1 Site Visitation Tracking
Like a lot of websites, this site uses analytics to track user interactions. We use this data to monitor the number of people using our site, to help to understand how they find and use our web pages, and to see their journey through the website.
Unlilke a lot of websites we do not use Google Analytics. Instead, we use Microanalytics, a privacy focused website analytcis provider, fully compliant with GDPR, PECR and CCPA.
Microanalytics doesn’t track you with your IP address, fingerprints or cookies. Nobody can be identified.
3.2 Contact Forms And Email Links
If you choose to contact us using any of the contact forms on this website or using an email link, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to/be processed by any of the third party data processors detailed in section 6.0. Instead, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
3.3 Comments
If you leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
4.0 How We Store Your Personal Information
As detailed in section 3.3 above, if you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website (as yet there is not a hosted blog on this website) some personal information will be stored within this website’s database. This is currently the only occasion where personal data would be stored on this website. This data is stored in an identifiable fashion; a limitation of the content management system that this website is built on (WordPress).
5.0 About This Website’s Server
This website is hosted by Stablepoint within a UK data centre located in London.
More details of Stablepoint’s technology can be found here.
All traffic (transfer of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.
6.0 Our Third Party Data Processors
We use the following third parties to process personal data on our behalf:
- Microanalytics (Privacy policy)
- Gravatar (Privacy policy)
These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0 above.
7.0 Data Breaches
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database, or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors, to all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.
8.0 Data Controller
The data controller of this website is: Simon Cooper.
9.0 Change log
2/July/2023
- Updated Microanalytics privacy policy link
2/March/2021
- Removed Google as a third party processor
- Added Microanalytics as a third party processor
21/February/2020
- Privacy policy instigated