Privacy & GDPR
DATA STORAGE LOCATION
I am a UK based individual (Lucien Paul Stanfield) and I use a company, SiteGround, to provide web hosting. SiteGround adheres to the EU/US “Privacy Shield”, ensuring that your data is securely stored.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
I use Google Analytics on my site for anonymous reporting of site usage. No personalized data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring your behaviour on my website please use this link: Google Analytics Opt-out.
COOKIES
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others.
NECESSARY COOKIES (ALL SITE VISITORS)
- cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare (which makes my site load quickly) to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
WHO HAS ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
If you are not a registered client for our site, there is no personal information we can retain or view regarding you.
THIRD PARTY ACCESS TO YOUR DATA
We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
No personal data is stored on this website. If you send me email, I will retain it for no more than 5 years.
SECURITY MEASURES
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personal identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties. Since we do not collect personal information from you, this is somewhat moot.
YOUR DATA RIGHTS
GDPR RIGHTS
Your privacy is critically important to us and we are GDPR complaint..
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
I do post links to third party websites when I think there is useful and interesting content to share. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by me and I am not liable for the conduct or content of these third party websites.
AMENDMENTS
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page accordingly and require you to accept the amendments in order to be permitted to continue using our services.