What we hold, and what we do not

Who is responsible

The controller is Ontarictensor, 65 Aller Pl, Livingston, EH54 6RG, United Kingdom. Email [email protected]. Phone +44 7836473197. We have not appointed a statutory data protection officer. Privacy questions come to the same desk.

If you are in the UK, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or via ico.org.uk. We would like the chance to put something right first.

What we collect

If you email or telephone us, we receive the details you choose to send: your name, email address, phone number, and whatever is in the message. Please do not send identity documents, full financial records, or other people’s personal data.

The contact form on the contact page does not submit to a server we control. It builds a mailto link so your own email program can send the note. If you do not send the email, we do not receive the form.

The cookie banner writes a small record in your browser’s local storage under the key ontarictensor_consent. It contains the choice you made and the time. It stays on your device. We do not receive a copy.

Like most websites, our host will process technical logs such as IP address, browser type, and the page requested, in order to keep the site online and to diagnose faults. We do not use those logs to build marketing profiles, and we do not sell them.

What we do not do

• We do not create user accounts.
• We do not run our own analytics, advertising pixels, or remarketing tags.
• We do not sell, rent, or swap personal information.
• We do not take card payments on this site.
• We do not knowingly collect information from children. The writing is for adults running or considering a trade.

Why we use information, and the lawful basis

Correspondence is handled so we can reply, correct a page, or decide whether a story can be composited. The lawful basis is our legitimate interests in publishing an accurate site and answering people who contact us, balanced against the limited nature of what we ask you to send. Where a message is clearly about exercising a data protection right, we also rely on the legal duty to respond.

The consent record in local storage is stored so we do not keep asking the same question. You can clear it in your browser. Clearing it will bring the banner back. Choosing “Reject non-essential” does not switch off the site. We were not loading an optional tracker either way. The choice is recorded so the banner stays honest about what you decided.

Third parties your browser contacts

Pages load typefaces from fonts.bunny.net and a style library plus icon font from cdn.jsdelivr.net. Those providers receive your IP address and ordinary technical data when your browser requests the files. Their own notices describe how they handle that traffic. If you block third-party requests, the words will still be on the page and the layout may look plainer.

If you email us, your email provider and ours process the message in transit. We use the inbox at [email protected] for editorial correspondence.

How long we keep it

Ordinary editorial email is kept for up to 24 months after the last message in the thread, then deleted, unless we need a longer copy to show why a page was corrected or to deal with a complaint or a legal claim. Hosting logs follow the host’s ordinary retention, which we ask to be no longer than needed for security. The local storage choice remains until you clear it.

Where it is held

We aim to handle editorial correspondence from the United Kingdom. Email routing and the font and script networks can involve processing outside the UK. Where that happens, we rely on the provider’s published safeguards, such as the UK extension to the EU-US data arrangements or the provider’s standard contractual clauses, as applicable to that service.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you may ask to access the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to erase it, to restrict how it is used, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You may also ask for portability where the rare case applies that we are processing by automated means on a contractual or consent basis. You can complain to the ICO. To use a right, email [email protected] with enough detail for us to find the thread. We may need to confirm you are the person the inbox belongs to. We aim to reply within one month.

There is no automated decision with a legal or similarly significant effect on this site. Reading an article does not score you.

Cookies in plain language

We do not set a first-party analytics cookie. The consent preference is local storage, which the law often discusses alongside cookies because it lives in the browser. Strictly necessary storage is the preference itself. We treat anything beyond that as non-essential, and we do not switch extra scripts on if you press accept. Third-party font and library hosts may set their own cookies; we do not control those. Rejecting non-essential cookies on our banner is your instruction to us. It does not reconfigure bunny.net or jsDelivr.

Changes

If we start to collect anything new, such as a newsletter platform or a payment, we will update this page before we do it and change the date at the top. The version you are reading was updated on 28 October 2026.