Privacy and cookies
Privacy and cookie notice
Last updated: 18 June 2026
This page explains how this website uses information. The site is deliberately simple. It is used to provide local updates, signpost residents to relevant pages, and explain how to contact Richard Tomlinson.
Who runs this website
This website is operated by Richard Tomlinson.
Contact email: [email protected]
What this website does not do
This website does not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, Meta Pixel, Google Analytics, behavioural profiling, or advertising audience tracking.
This website does not collect personal information through forms hosted directly on this site.
Website hosting and security
Like most websites, the hosting provider may process basic technical information when you visit the site. This may include your IP address, browser type, pages requested, and the date and time of access.
This information is used for website security, troubleshooting, and keeping the site working properly.
Website statistics
This site uses Koko Analytics to collect simple, aggregate website statistics. This helps me understand roughly how many people visit the site, which pages are viewed, and where visitors may have come from.
Koko Analytics is configured without cookies. The statistics are used only to understand and improve the website. They are not used to identify individual visitors, build profiles, target advertising, or track people across other websites.
Aggregate website statistics are normally kept for up to 24 months.
Cookies
This website does not use advertising cookies or behavioural tracking cookies.
Essential cookies may be used where necessary for WordPress administration, security, or the basic operation of the website. These are not used for advertising or profiling ordinary visitors.
External links
This website links to external websites, including survey pages, email sign-up pages, Conservative Party websites, and other public information sources.
If you follow one of those links, the external website may collect and process your information under its own privacy policy. This notice only covers this website.
If you contact me
If you contact me by email, I will use the information you provide to read your message, reply to you, and follow up the issue you have raised.
If your message relates to a council, public body, local service, or community issue, I may need to share relevant details with the appropriate organisation in order to respond or seek a resolution. I will only share what is necessary.
Please do not include sensitive personal information unless it is relevant to the issue you are raising.
Email updates
If you sign up for local email updates through an external sign-up page, your information will be processed through that external service. The sign-up page should explain how your information will be used.
You can unsubscribe from local email updates at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email.
How information is used
Information is used for the following purposes:
- to keep the website secure and working properly;
- to understand aggregate website traffic;
- to reply when you contact me;
- to follow up local issues raised by residents;
- to send updates where you have asked to receive them;
- to meet legal, regulatory, or electoral obligations where they apply.
How long information is kept
Emails and correspondence are kept only for as long as needed to deal with the issue raised, maintain an appropriate record of local casework or correspondence, or meet legal obligations.
Information that is no longer needed is deleted or securely archived.
Who information is shared with
I do not sell personal information.
Information may be shared where necessary with relevant councils, public bodies, service providers, campaign or administrative support services, or legal/regulatory bodies. This will only be done where there is a proper reason.
Your rights
You have rights under data protection law. These may include the right to ask for a copy of your personal information, to ask for inaccurate information to be corrected, to object to certain uses of your information, or to ask for information to be deleted where appropriate.
To make a request, email: [email protected]
Complaints
If you have a concern about how your information has been handled, please contact me first so I can try to resolve it.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Changes to this notice
This notice may be updated from time to time, especially if the website changes or new features are added.