Privacy & Cookies

Last updated: 18 August 2026

This site is operated by James Studdart. If you have a question about anything on this page, or you want your data removed, email james@whitefishcreative.co.uk and I will deal with it personally.

Under UK GDPR, I am the data controller for the information described below.

What I collect

If you fill in the contact form, I receive what you type into it: the type of work you are enquiring about, any details you add, your budget and timescale, your company name, your full name, your email address, how you heard about me, and which contact methods you have consented to. I also receive the time you submitted it.

If you simply read the site, I receive anonymous, aggregated traffic figures: page views, rough visitor counts and referrers. These are not tied to you as an individual and I cannot use them to identify you.

I do not buy, sell, rent or share mailing lists, and I do not add you to a newsletter because you contacted me.

Why I collect it, and for how long

Contact form submissions are used for one thing: replying to your enquiry and, if it goes further, discussing the work. The lawful basis is legitimate interest, in that you asked me to get in touch about a project. The separate email and telephone consent boxes on the form record how you are happy to be contacted, and I stick to what you ticked.

I keep enquiries for up to 24 months so that I have a record of conversations that turn into work, then delete them. If we do end up working together, the resulting business records are kept for as long as UK tax and company law requires.

Who else sees it

Running a website means a small number of other companies handle data on my behalf:

• Netlify hosts the site and processes contact form submissions before they reach me.
• Google reCAPTCHA is used on the contact form to block automated spam. Google may set cookies and collect device and usage information to do this. Google’s own privacy policy covers that processing.
• Font and icon providers (Font Awesome, PodFonts, cdnjs) serve stylesheets and fonts to your browser. Requesting those files exposes your IP address to them, as it would on any site using a content delivery network.

None of these are given your details for their own marketing purposes.

Cookies

This site uses as few cookies as it can get away with.

• Cookie consent. When you dismiss the cookie banner, a small value is stored on your device so the banner does not reappear on every page. It contains your preference, and nothing else.
• Analytics. My host records anonymous, aggregated traffic figures. This does not identify you or follow you to other websites.
• Google reCAPTCHA. Sets cookies on the contact form page in order to tell humans apart from bots.

There is no advertising network on this site, no tracking pixel, no cross-site profiling and no behavioural targeting.

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. The site will carry on working, though the cookie banner will greet you on every visit and the contact form may refuse to submit if reCAPTCHA cannot run.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask me to show you what I hold about you, correct it, delete it, restrict what I do with it, hand it over in a portable format, or object to my processing it altogether. Where processing rests on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

Email james@whitefishcreative.co.uk and I will respond within 30 days. There is no charge.

If you are unhappy with how I have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk, though I would rather you gave me the chance to put it right first.

Links elsewhere

This site links to LinkedIn, GitHub, Medium, Amazon, Vocalink and my podcasts. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else’s website, under their privacy policy, not this one.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version appears here with a new date at the top. There is no version history worth keeping; if a change materially affects an enquiry you have already sent me, I will email you.