Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 April 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: We collect information about how you use our website, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and links clicked. We use this to understand what content is popular and to improve the site.
  • Cookie Data: We use cookies for analytics and advertising. Please see our Cookie Policy for detailed information.
  • 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 use Google AdSense to display ads, which helps fund the site.

3. Google AdSense & Advertising

This site uses Google AdSense, an advertising service provided by Google.

  • 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:

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting 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 cookies (analytics and advertising) and when you contact us. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate Interests: For essential website operation, security, and analysing aggregated, anonymised usage data to improve our services. 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: Retained in an aggregated, anonymised form indefinitely.

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.

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:

[NOTE FOR SITE OWNER: Please insert a valid email address here, e.g., privacy@yourdomain.com]

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.