Who operates this site
Jack Banks is the individual operator of this website. For questions about personal data or to make a privacy request, contact hello.smallplotgarden@gmail.com. The site is intended to provide practical gardening information for readers interested in small British gardens, patios and plots.
Information generated when you visit
The website is hosted by Contabo and runs on WordPress. The server keeps technical logs associated with use of the site. Such logs are separate from the analytics statistics described below. The supplied information does not establish which fields the logs contain or how long they are kept.
Public forms and comments are disabled, as are advertising and newsletters. You can nevertheless choose to send an email to the address above. If you do, the information in your message can be used to understand and respond to your enquiry. Avoid including information you do not want to share in that message.
Site analytics
Self-hosted Kantan Analytics is being connected during the site’s setup. When active, it records visits, pages viewed, referral sources, countries, devices, clicks, scrolling and conversions. It uses random identifiers in Local Storage rather than analytics cookies. IP addresses are not retained in its statistics; this does not mean that IP addresses are absent from separate technical server logs.
These measurements are intended to help the operator understand how the site is used. The analytics setup has external webhooks disabled. A self-hosted setup does not, by itself, mean that no service provider handles the infrastructure on which the site operates.
Storage and access
Detailed analytics records are kept for 90 days. Aggregated figures and summaries may be kept longer. The retention period for technical server logs has not been confirmed. Administrator login uses authentication cookies; these relate to access to the site’s administration area, not to a public account or comment feature.
A random identifier held in Local Storage is still a technology that stores information on a device. Whether its use requires consent or qualifies for an exception depends on the applicable rules and the way it is deployed. Merely visiting or continuing to browse the site is not treated here as consent to optional storage or access.
Service providers and location
Contabo provides hosting for the website. Technical requests and stored site information may therefore pass through or reside on its hosting infrastructure. The supplied information does not confirm the locations in which site data is processed, the terms governing any international transfers, or the retention conditions for server logs. External analytics webhooks are disabled.
Your choices and rights
Depending on the circumstances and applicable data-protection law, you may be able to ask for access to personal data about you, correction or deletion, restriction of processing, or an objection to processing. Other rights may apply, including data portability where its legal conditions are met. These rights are not absolute. Write to hello.smallplotgarden@gmail.com with enough detail to identify the information or activity concerned; please do not send sensitive information unnecessarily.
You can also raise a concern with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Contacting the operator first may help resolve a question, but it is not a condition of approaching the ICO. If you clear this site’s Local Storage in your browser, that may remove an analytics identifier from that browser; it does not itself delete records already held by the site.
Visitor statistics — Kantan Analytics
We use self-hosted Kantan Analytics to understand visits: pages, traffic sources, approximate country, device and browser, clicks, scrolling and paths through the site. The plugin uses browser Local Storage for random visitor and session identifiers, rather than analytics cookies. A separate first-party preference cookie can exclude the site owner’s browser from analytics for one year. Automation checks may set a session preference cookie to exclude technical visits. IP addresses are processed for country lookup and abuse prevention but are not stored in Kantan statistics. Detailed records are retained for 90 days; aggregates, summaries associated with random visitor identifiers and conversion records may be kept longer. Forwarding conversions to external services is disabled. For questions or requests, use the operator contact details on this page.