Privacy Policy
Last updated: 1 October 2026
1. Introduction
This privacy policy explains how personal information is collected, used and protected when you use this website.
The data controller for this website is Marcus Cicero who is also the privacy contact for any questions or requests relating to your personal information.
This website is operated in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
2. Information This Website Collects
This website is designed to collect as little personal information as reasonably possible.
If you use the contact form, the following information will be collected:
- Your name
- Your email address
- An optional subject
- The message you submit
This information is supplied directly by you when you choose to contact me through the website.
The website does not currently use optional analytics, advertising trackers or behavioural profiling.
3. How Your Information Is Used
Information submitted through the contact form may be used to:
- Receive and read your message
- Respond to your enquiry
- Continue correspondence where appropriate
- Protect the website against spam, abuse or malicious activity
- Maintain the security and proper operation of the website
Information submitted through the contact form will not be used for unrelated marketing purposes without an appropriate lawful basis.
4. Lawful Basis for Processing
The primary lawful basis for processing information submitted through the contact form is legitimate interests.
The legitimate interest is the ability to receive, manage and respond to correspondence that you voluntarily submit through this website.
This processing is limited to information that is reasonably necessary to receive and respond to your communication.
Where your enquiry relates to entering into a contract or providing a service that you have requested, processing may instead be necessary in order to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
5. Cookies and Browser Storage
This website uses only storage that is necessary for the operation, security or personalisation of the website.
Essential Session Cookie
An essential session cookie is used for website security, administration and contact-form protection.
This cookie is required for the website to function securely and is not used for advertising, analytics or behavioural tracking.
Browser Preferences
Certain preferences may be stored locally within your browser, including:
- Light or dark theme preference
- Text-size preference
- Cookie choices
These preferences are stored within your browser so that the website can remember how you prefer it to appear or behave.
No optional analytics cookies are currently installed.
6. How Long Information Is Kept
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
- Contact-form messages: normally retained for no longer than 28 days.
- Security and technical records: retained for up to 28 days where required for website security, troubleshooting, abuse prevention or investigation of security incidents.
- Backups: copies may remain within the normal backup cycle for up to 28 days before being automatically deleted or replaced.
Information may occasionally need to be retained for longer where this is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, investigate a security incident, or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
7. Website Security
Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect personal information against unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or loss.
Connections to this website are protected using TLS (Transport Layer Security) over HTTPS. The website uses an RSA-based digital certificate as part of its TLS security infrastructure to authenticate the website and help establish secure encrypted connections between your browser and the web server.
Information transmitted between your browser and this website is encrypted in transit.
While appropriate security measures are used, no internet-based system or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
8. Sharing Your Information
Personal information submitted through this website is not sold, rented or traded.
Personal information may be processed by technical service providers where this is necessary for website hosting, server administration, backups or security.
These providers are permitted to process information only where necessary to provide the relevant technical services.
Information may also be disclosed where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect the security, rights or integrity of the website or its users.
9. Your Data Protection Rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have a number of rights regarding your personal information, depending on the circumstances.
These can include the right to:
- Access personal information held about you and request a copy of it.
- Rectification of personal information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Erasure of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction of processing in certain circumstances.
- Object to processing where processing is based upon legitimate interests.
- Data portability in circumstances where this right applies.
- Be informed about how your personal information is collected and used.
These rights are subject to conditions and exemptions contained within UK data protection law.
10. Exercising Your Rights
If you wish to exercise a data protection right, ask a question about this privacy policy, or raise a concern about how your personal information has been handled, please contact:
Data Controller and Privacy Contact:
Marcus Cicero
You can contact me using the contact form provided on this website.
I may need to request sufficient information to verify your identity before responding to a request concerning personal information.
11. Complaints
If you are concerned about the way your personal information has been handled, you are welcome to contact me first so that I can investigate the issue.
You also have the right to raise a concern or make a complaint with the UK's independent data protection regulator:
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
United Kingdom
Website: ico.org.uk
12. International Transfers
Some technical service providers used to host, secure or operate this website may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred outside the United Kingdom, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by UK data protection law.
13. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
This website does not use information submitted through the contact form to make automated decisions about visitors.
The website does not carry out behavioural profiling using personal information submitted through the contact form.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the information it processes, or applicable legal requirements.
The date shown at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated.