Privacy Notice

Who handles your information

Alan Winter is responsible for handling enquiries made through this website. Contact alan@alanwinter.co.uk with questions about your information.

Information and purposes

If you use the contact form, Alan receives your name, email address and message. If you email him directly, he receives your email address, message and any other details you choose to include. These are used to respond to your enquiry, discuss the project or opportunity you raise and manage any resulting working relationship. Enquiries are not used to add you to a marketing list. Please provide only information relevant to your enquiry.

The basis for handling general enquiries is Alan’s legitimate interest in responding to people who contact him. Where you ask about entering into a contract, handling may be necessary to take steps at your request. Providing information is voluntary, but contact details and enough information about your enquiry are needed for a reply.

Website hosting and contact form

This website is hosted by Netlify. The contact form sends your name, email address and message to Netlify Forms, where submissions are stored in Alan’s Netlify account. Email notifications are sent to alan@alanwinter.co.uk.

Netlify processes technical access information to provide hosting and spam filtering. The form includes a hidden honeypot field to help reject automated spam. Information about Netlify’s processing is available in its privacy policy.

Direct email and LinkedIn

Email sent to alan@alanwinter.co.uk is hosted by Apple iCloud Mail and forwarded to Alan’s Gmail account. Copies are retained in iCloud as well as Gmail. Alan is the sole person managing website enquiries. Apple and Google process email through their services under their respective Apple privacy policy and Google privacy policy. LinkedIn messages are handled on LinkedIn under its privacy policy. The service providers’ privacy information describes their processing of personal information, including international processing.

Tracking and technical services

The website code does not add analytics or advertising trackers, or write tracking cookies. Hosting providers may process technical access information and use security services under their own policies; this is separate from the contact form.

How long information is kept

Alan reviews enquiry emails manually and deletes them when they are no longer needed. Information is kept while it is needed to respond, follow up or manage a resulting working relationship, taking account of applicable legal and record-keeping requirements. The criteria are whether the conversation is active, whether a working relationship follows and whether a record is still needed for those purposes. No fixed retention period has been established. Because copies are held in both iCloud Mail and Gmail, retention and deletion need to cover both services. Form submissions are also stored separately in Netlify. Deleting a submission or email from one service does not remove copies held in the other services.

Your rights

You can contact alan@alanwinter.co.uk to ask for access to your information, correction or deletion, or restriction of its use. Data portability may apply in some circumstances.

You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can raise an objection using the same email address.

If you have a concern, please contact Alan. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Privacy Notice updated 12 November 2026.