Effective date: 23 October 2026
Stoneyport (“we”, “our” or “us”) operates the travel blog at stoneyport.co.uk. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights.
1. What data we collect
We collect only the personal data we need to run this blog:
- Comments: If you leave a comment on an article, we collect the name and email address you provide, your comment, and your IP address and browser user agent to help with spam detection.
- Contact and guest post emails: If you get in touch through our Contact Us page or submit a guest post pitch via our Write For Us page, we collect the details you send us (such as your name, email address and message) so we can respond and, where relevant, review or publish your submission.
- Analytics and cookies: We may use privacy-friendly analytics and essential cookies to understand how visitors use the site (for example, which destination guides are most read) and to keep the site working properly. Where analytics uses cookies, it does so in an aggregated, non-identifying way.
- Embedded content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, maps or social media posts). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website, and may collect data about you, use cookies, or embed additional third-party tracking.
2. How we use your data
We use your personal data to:
- Publish and moderate comments on our articles;
- Respond to enquiries sent through our Contact Us page;
- Review guest post submissions sent via our Write For Us page;
- Maintain the security and performance of the website;
- Understand, in aggregate, how readers use the site so we can improve our travel guides.
We will never sell your personal data.
3. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file stored on your device. We use cookies that are necessary for the site to function (for example, to remember your comment details if you choose to) and, where enabled, analytics cookies that help us understand site usage. You can control or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings; disabling cookies may affect some site features.
4. Third-party services
We use a small number of trusted third-party services to run the site, such as our web host, spam protection for comments, and any analytics provider we enable. These services process data on our behalf and only as needed to provide their service. Embedded content (videos, maps, social feeds) may be served by third parties such as YouTube or Google Maps, whose own privacy policies apply.
5. Data retention
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above: comments are kept for as long as the related article is live, and correspondence is kept for a reasonable period to handle follow-ups, after which it is deleted.
6. Your rights under UK GDPR
You have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you;
- Rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
- Erasure of your personal data where there is no lawful reason to keep it;
- Restrict or object to our processing of your data;
- Data portability, where applicable.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us through our Contact Us page. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk.
7. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the site or the law. The effective date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.
8. Contact us
If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your data, please get in touch through our Contact Us page.