Introduction

This hobby website is provided by me as a private individual, intended for use by and enjoyment of other amateur radio and photography hobbyists.  You can contact me by email.

As a non-commercial site for hobbies but using a commercial template based hosting service I’m unclear if the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies or not, but have produced this Privacy Policy anyway.

Purpose and basis of any personal data processing on this website

Any personal information collected on this website is for the legitimate interests involved in operating it, its security and maintenance, together with any services requested by the site visitor.

Personal data collection on this website

and all of these form part of this site Privacy Policy so please do take the time to read them

  • You may be able to limit what information Wordpress.com or Google collect, and their placement of cookies, by using controls provided within your web browser but please note that the site may not work as intended
  • The site content created by me does not collect personal information unless you choose to contact me
  • The site content created by me does not use automated profiling nor automated decision making

Use of the Contact Me form

  • You send information to me as a private individual.
  • The form sends to a Gmail account set up for this site so that correspondence is kept separate from other email, and will be stored from time to time on my private IT systems and devices
  • Personal information you give on this form such as your name and email address may be transmitted and/or stored on servers outside the EU, for example to reputable suppliers such WordPress.com, Gmail and/or other well known cloud backup and data synchronisation services that should comply with the US-EU Privacy Shield or other international arrangements.  In the case of WordPress.com their Privacy Policy at https://automattic.com/privacy/ explains more, as does the Gmail Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy/update
  • I keep such personal information for so long as I consider it reasonably necessary to administer the site, answer user questions, maintain reasonable records or as required by law
  • I do not sell, lease or distribute any information you give on the contact form, it is used to answer your contact request only, unless you ask me, or consent for me, to do otherwise in connection with your contact request, or if required by law
  • You will need to signify you have read this Privacy Policy before use of the contact form.

Your rights under the GDPR

You have various legal rights under the GDPR:

  • To be informed – this Privacy Policy
  • Of access – you can ask to see the personal information held
  • To rectification – any mistakes in the personal information held must be rectified or completed
  • To erasure – under certain circumstances to have personal data held deleted
  • To restrict processing – under certain circumstances to have processing of any held personal data restricted
  • To data portability – a copy of your data for use on other services
  • To object – in certain circumstances you can ask for processing of your personal information to stop
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling – you have certain rights if this is being performed

Subject to the exceptions permitted in law I can do the above from my own IT systems and any cloud accounts that I use.  However, since I have no access to, nor control over, other third party servers that may be used I’m afraid it will probably be impractical for me as a private individual to do so on those.

Links to other sites

This website may include links to other websites, and WordPress.com may provide social networking sharing buttons.  I have no control over these websites or buttons so you should take care with releasing any personal information to those sites, which will of course be subject to their own privacy policies.  I cannot accept any responsibility for your use of those sites, links or sharing buttons, which you access or use entirely at your own risk.

Complaints

If you have any concerns about this site and how it uses personal information please contact me and I will try to answer your query.

If you wish to make a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner about any aspect of this site or the WordPress.com services you can do so at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/raising-concerns/