Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

This website, Tech Tweedie (accessible at https://techtweedie.github.io), is operated by:

Tweed Technology Ltd
Company Number: 07820713
Corporate website: https://tweed.technology/

Tweed Technology Ltd is the data controller responsible for your personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, and your rights concerning that data.

1. What Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our service. The types of data we collect depend on your interaction with our site.

  • Technical Data: When you visit, we may automatically collect your IP address, browser type, operating system, and referring URLs. This is standard practice for most websites and is used for security and troubleshooting.
  • Usage Data: Google Tag Manager and the previous Silktide analytics consent banner are not loaded by this site. The Google AdSense tag is present on the homepage and blog articles to support site review and Google’s consent management message; other external content may independently process usage data.
  • Cookie Data: Google’s AdSense service may use cookies and similar technologies once active, subject to the available consent choices and applicable law. Our former optional analytics banner has been removed. See our Cookie Policy for details.
  • Contact Data: If you contact us directly via email, we will have your email address and any information you provide in your message.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your data for the following purposes:

  • To operate and maintain our website: Ensuring the site is secure and performs correctly.
  • To improve our website: Analysing usage data helps us refine our content and user experience.
  • To comply with legal obligations: We may need to process your data to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
  • To serve advertisements: We plan to use Google AdSense to fund the site. We have requested no approval yet through this site: AdSense can only serve paid ads after Google approves the site. We intend to use Google’s certified consent system for regions where it is required.

3. Google AdSense & Advertising

This site is preparing to use Google AdSense, an advertising service provided by Google. The standard Google AdSense script is present on eligible pages. Google’s certified Privacy & messaging platform will manage advertising privacy choices for eligible visitors once the owner has published a European regulations message in AdSense. Site approval and consent-message publication are controlled from the Google account, not by this website’s code. There is no separate Silktide banner or Google Tag Manager integration.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • These ads may be personalised based on your interests, demographics, and other information Google has collected. In some regions, you may only be shown non-personalised ads.

How to Control Advertising Cookies:

When AdSense is active, you can adjust consent choices using Google’s certified consent message and Google’s Ad Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

4. Lawful Basis for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we process your personal data on the following lawful bases:

  • Consent: For non-essential advertising cookies and personalisation where consent is legally required. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate Interests: For essential website operation and security. We ensure our legitimate interests do not override your rights and freedoms.

5. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

  • Contact Data: Retained for as long as necessary to resolve your query and for a reasonable period thereafter for record-keeping.
  • Analytics Data: We do not currently enable a standalone Google Tag Manager analytics integration. Third-party providers have their own documented retention practices; contact us to ask about relevant data.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • The right to be informed: To be told how your personal information will be used.
  • The right of access: To request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • The right to rectification: To request that we correct any inaccurate personal data.
  • The right to erasure: To request that we delete your personal data, where there is no compelling reason for us to keep it.
  • The right to restrict processing: To request that we suspend the processing of your personal data.
  • The right to data portability: To request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format.
  • The right to object: To object to us processing your data (for example, for direct marketing).
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Other Services and External Content

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which may process technical connection information such as IP addresses as part of delivering the website. Pages may include third-party resources, such as fonts, shared UI assets, embedded media, and GitHub Discussions comments via Giscus. Visiting third-party content can result in data being shared with its provider; their own policies may apply. Do not submit personal information in public comments that you do not wish to disclose.

To request access, erasure or another data-protection right, email privacy@tweed.technology. You can read our Cookie Policy for further information on consent choices.

7. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way.

8. Contact Us

For any questions about this privacy policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at:

privacy@tweed.technology

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). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.