On Richard Slater’s website, accessible from https://www.richard-slater.co.uk, one of Our main priorities is the privacy of Our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded on Richard Slater’s website (“the website”, “Our website”) and how we use it.

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on Monday, 16 May 2022.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me on Twitter, Keybase, or Discord.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to Our website regarding the information that we collect on Our website. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than the website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.

By using Our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information you are asked to provide and the reasons you are asked to provide it will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain Our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand Our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use Our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

The website follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Our Hosting Provider

Netlify provides hosting for this website, and may collect Usage Data including include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. The operators of this website do not have access to this data.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, the wesbite uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies and how to control them, please read What are cookies? on Cookies and You.

Our Analytics Provider

Google Analytics provides Analytics for this website, and may collect Usage Data including include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Our Security Reporting Service

ReportURI provides diagnostic data about errors encountered by visitors when viewing the website.

Services We Integrate With

We integrate with Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube to provide a rich experience, however accessing content on this website that included embeded content from these services may result in Usage Data including information such as your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP Address), browser type, browser version and the content that you access.

Where possible we configure our integration with these services to minimise privacy risks to our visitors.

Cookies in Use on This Website

The following cookies may be stored on your computer:

  • _ga* - These cookies are used by Google Analytics to anonymously track usage of the website to enable us to better understand our audience and make improvements to the website.

If you visited the website before the 7th May 2022 you may have the folloing cookies:

  • wordpress_logged_in_* - used by WordPress to track the currently logged in user.
  • wp-* - used by WordPress to store basic information to reduce the need to fill in information in comments.

Note: WordPress is no longer in use on this site; the associated MySQL Database has been removed.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

The Site may contain links to other websites or content belonging to or originating from third parties, or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising.

Advertising Partners

This site leverages the following advertising partners:

Third Party Privacy Policies

This Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites or on the Cookies and You website.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell Our Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Richard Slater’s Personal Website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on Our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.