Privacy & cookies

This policy explains what personal data is collected through chriswyle.co.uk and the Building It email list, why, and what your rights are under UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018).

Who is responsible for your data

The data controller is Chris Wyle. For any privacy question or request, email hello@chriswyle.co.uk.

The short version

• This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking.
• If you join the weekly email, your details are held by our email provider, Kit, and used only to send you Building It emails.
• If you email us, we use your message only to reply.
• We never sell your data.

The weekly email (via Kit)

When you sign up to the Building It email, you do so on a sign-up page run by Kit (kit.com, formerly ConvertKit), which acts as our data processor.

• What we collect: your email address and, if you give it, your first name. Kit also records technical details of your sign-up (such as the date, the form you used and confirmation of your opt-in), plus whether emails are delivered, opened or clicked. We use this to keep the list healthy and see which content is useful.
• Why and on what basis: to send you the weekly email and any free download you asked for. The lawful basis is your consent. We use double opt-in, so you'll be asked to confirm your address before you're added.
• How long: until you unsubscribe. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link, or you can email us. After you unsubscribe, we may keep a minimal record of your address so we don't email you again.
• Where: Kit is based in the United States, so your data may be processed outside the UK. Kit provides contractual safeguards for international transfers in its data processing terms. Kit's own privacy policy is at kit.com/privacy.
• Kit's sign-up pages are hosted by Kit, not on this website, and Kit may use its own cookies there. Its privacy and cookie information applies on those pages.

When you email us

If you email hello@chriswyle.co.uk, we use your name, email address and anything you include to reply to you and handle your enquiry. The lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries (or taking steps towards an agreement you've asked about). We keep enquiry emails only as long as needed for that purpose and any follow-up. Email is provided by Apple's iCloud Mail.

Cookies and analytics

This website does not set any cookies, and it uses no analytics, advertising or tracking tools. Fonts and images are served from this site itself, not from third parties. Because no cookies are used, there's no cookie banner.

Links to YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and Kit take you to those services, and their own privacy policies and cookies apply there. Videos are linked, not embedded, so nothing from those services loads on this site.

Website hosting

The site is hosted by a web hosting provider that, like any web server, briefly processes technical data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver pages and keep the service secure. We don't use this data to identify or profile you.

Your rights

You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its use, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time (for example by unsubscribing). To make a request, email hello@chriswyle.co.uk. We'll respond within one month.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk. We'd appreciate the chance to put things right first.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.