Privacy Policy for Brian Bilston’s Newsletter

Last updated: 23^rd June 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to Brian Bilston’s Newsletter. I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you how I will look after your personal data when you subscribe to my newsletter and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

I am the data controller responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at brianbilston@outlook.com.

2. The Data We Collect About You

I only collect, use, and store the minimal personal data necessary to send you my newsletter:

• Contact Data: Your email address.
• Technical & Usage Data: Information about how you interact with our newsletter (e.g., email open rates, link clicks, IP address, and browser type).

3. How and Why I Use Your Personal Data

I will only use your personal data when the law allows me to. Most commonly, I use your data on the following legal bases:

• Consent: You explicitly agreed to receive our newsletter by entering your email address into my subscription form. You can withdraw this consent at any time.
• Legitimate Interests: I track email engagement (opens and clicks) to improve my content, optimize our newsletter delivery, and ensure my systems remain secure.

4. How I Share Your Personal Data

I do not sell your personal data. I only share your data with trusted third-party service providers who help me run my newsletter:

• Email Marketing Platform: I use WordPress to securely store your email and send out our campaigns.
• Analytics Providers: WordPress contains tools to track performance and engagement data.

All third-party service providers are required to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

5. International Data Transfers

Some of my external third-party service providers (such as email platforms) may be based outside the United Kingdom (UK). Whenever I transfer your personal data out of the UK, I ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring standard contractual clauses or adequacy regulations are in place.

6. Data Security

I have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed in an unauthorized way.

7. Data Retention

I will only retain your personal data for as long as you remain a subscriber. If you unsubscribe, I will immediately stop sending you newsletters and will securely delete your data within 30 days, unless I am legally required to keep it.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your data:

• Right to opt-out: You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email I send.
• Right of access: You can request a copy of the personal data I hold about you.
• Right to erasure: You can ask me to delete your personal data completely.
• Right to rectification: You can ask me to correct any inaccurate information. [1]

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at brianbilston@outlook.com

9. Complaints

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). I would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact me first.