Privacy Statement

In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), here is my privacy notice. This sets out how we process and store any data you share with us, including the third-party websites which store this data.

To begin: we only ask for the minimum in terms of data for you to sign up to this website which is maintained for the purpose of informing interested parties. Most of the news is also available via Facebook or other social media

The information you are required to provide is shared when you click the Follow button which shares your WordPress profile with us. These are managed by third parties, and the information is held by them. We do not store it ourselves nor do we refer to it beyond occasionally consulting stats, which are behind a login process on WordPress.

Website

  • This website is hosted by WordPress, and you can read their privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Information about their cookie policy is here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/cookies/.
  • If you comment on any posts, the data is held by this WordPress.com website and is visible to visitors. If someone shares the page or blog post via social media, your comments will be shared with it, at the bottom of the page.
  • If you use the contact form to get in touch with us, the data you share, including your email address, will be shared with our email provider, gmail. Googles’s privacy statement is here: https://policies.google.com/u/1/privacy/update?utm_source=pp-email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EU&pli=1. Your email address will remain stored within our gmail account until or unless deleted, and will not be shared with anyone.
  • If you follow this blog on WordPress, your WordPress profile name or your email address (depending on how you choose to follow the blog) is stored by WordPress in the Followers/Email Followers section of our admin. We do not export any of this information, or share it, or use it for any purpose.
  • Any other data which WordPress collects about you is held by WordPress and only available to us in an anonymised form, for example as visitor stats.

Further information

  • For any of the following queries, please get in touch using the Contact Form or the alternatives given at the end.
  • The right to access: if you wish to know more about, or to see a copy of, the personal data we hold on you, you can. Just contact us.
  • The right to correct: if you think some of the information held is incorrect, you can ask for it to be amended.
  • The right to erasure: You can unsubscribe from this website/blog. This should remove your information. If, having done so, you wish to check, please contact us. If you require something more than that, contact us. We will find out what we can.
  • The right to restriction of processing: if you want us to stop processing your data but do not wish to ‘unfollow’, please contact us and we will find out how it is done (although as stated above, we will not use your information for any purpose and the ‘processing’ is by third parties). In the meantime, we are allowed to store your personal data (e.g. your email address only) as stated above within the admin part of the website and processed, as stated, by third parties. You can unsubscribe from this website by clicking ‘unfollow’ at any time.
  • The right to data portability: you can ask us to transport any personal data you have supplied to me to a new provider.
  • The right to object: you have the right to object to us processing your personal data for several reasons, and if you do so and your reason is valid, we are required to stop.
  • The right to complain: if you live in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information, you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
  • If we become aware of a data breach via any of the third-party sites we use – WordPress or gmail – we will notify you as soon as we can (the GDPR standard is within 72 hours). It hasn’t happened yet, fingers crossed.
  • If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please get in touch via the Contact Form.

DISCLAIMER: We are not lawyers and this is our interpretation of the legislation. If you are a lawyer and believe we have made an error, please contact us. Further information about GDPR can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website.