Website Privacy Policy

The policy: This privacy policy is for this website; cliftonwebdesign.co.uk and served by Clifton Web Design 41 Keedwell Hill Bristol BS41 9DP and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how your rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are adhere to. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to serve it to you. Our contact information is provided on our contact page if you have any questions.

Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies solely to ensure essential functionality, maintain security, and provide a reliable browsing experience. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help the website operate correctly and remember critical technical configurations. We only use strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are required for the website to function, do not store personal information, and cannot be disabled. They are set by security tools and performance or caching systems (SiteGround’s server-side caching, which reads essential session tokens to accurately serve website layouts). We do not use cookies for tracking, analytics, advertising, profiling, or marketing. You may restrict or disable essential cookies at any time through your browser settings, though doing so may affect how the website functions.

Analytics

To help us understand how visitors use our website and to improve our content, we use Umami Analytics — a privacy‑focused, cookieless analytics platform. Umami does not collect personal data, does not use cookies, and does not track individual users across websites. The information gathered includes anonymous page views, device type, and referrer data. All processing is fully compliant with the EU GDPR and UK GDPR. No personal information is stored, shared, or used for marketing purposes.

Forms and anti-spam filters

Our primary goal is to ensure that our website is as safe and secure as possible for you and for us. To protect our website forms from spam, we use CleanTalk, an anti-spam service that collects and processes certain personal data — such as your IP address, browser user agent, and form inputs (including name, email address, and message content). All data is stored and processed exclusively on servers located within the European Union, ensuring full compliance with the EU GDPR and UK GDPR. CleanTalk retains your data only for the purpose of detecting and preventing spam and automatically deletes it once this purpose has been fulfilled. Your information is not used for marketing nor shared with third parties beyond those necessary for spam protection. You may exercise your rights to access, rectify, or erase your personal data at any time. Any requests for the above must be made via email or in writing. Where applicable, Clifton Web Design will comply within 30 days of receiving the request.

Customer Reviews

We display verified customer reviews on our website using a Trustindex widget. This plugin functions with data minimisation in mind, securely fetching public review data from platforms like Google or Facebook. The widget does not deploy third-party tracking or advertising cookies on your device, and any basic domain configuration data processed by the plugin is completely deleted if the tool is uninstalled.

Downloads and Media Files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. While all precautions have been undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available users are advised to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications. We accept no responsibility for third party downloads and downloads provided by external third party websites and advise users to verify their authenticity using third party anti virus software or similar applications.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links users should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.

General Data Sharing Statement

We do not share or sell your details to other organisations, for example marketing or fundraising purposes.

Resources

Last updated 02-09-2026