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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy covers any personal data collected via this website, including the use of 'cookies'.


Relevant 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, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found further down) for clarification.


Personal Information That This Website Collects and Why We Collect It

Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us.

Our analytics configuration anonymises your IP address, meaning that neither we nor Google can identify you personally.

We consider Google to be a third party data processor - their Privacy Policy is available here.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website. Methods differ depending on the broiwser you are using.

Contact Forms

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page, none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or passed to/be processed by any third party data processor. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Any contact details you provide will be used solely for the purpose of communicating with you in connection with your enquiry or any further business that you choose to engage in with us.

We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public any personal information collected via this website.

About This Website's Server

This website is hosted by Brass Tacks Web Design within a third-party UK data centre.



Browser Cookies & Consent

What are Cookies

Cookies are very small text files placed on your computer by a web server when you view some sites online (not all web sites place cookies). They're used to store data about you and your preferences so that a web server doesn't have to repeatedly request this information, potentially slowing down load time.

Cookies are commonly used to store personal registration data like your name, your address, the contents of a shopping cart, your preferred layout for a web page, what map you might be looking at, and so on.

Cookies make it easy for web servers to personalize information to fit your specific needs and preferences when you're visiting a web site.

Useful links:
What Are Cookies On A Computer? (Lifewire)
The Complete Guide To Cookies ... (Gizmodo)

Cookie Consent

The UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations require that website visitors give consent for cookies to be used.

We assume that by using this site with your existing browser settings you consent to cookies being set.

If you do not want cookies to be used by the websites you visit, you can disable all cookies for all websites. The method varies for different browsers but the link below gives instructions for most.

Useful link: How to disable cookies.




Brass Tacks Web Design, May 2018