Overview
Cornwall Political Watch is committed to protecting your privacy. This site is designed to collect as little data as possible. We do not track visitors, we do not use advertising networks, and we do not sell or share data with third parties. This policy explains what minimal data processing occurs when you use this site.
Analytics
We use Umami, a privacy-focused, open-source analytics tool. Umami is fundamentally different from conventional analytics platforms:
- It does not use cookies of any kind.
- It does not collect personal data such as IP addresses, device fingerprints, or location data.
- It does not track individual visitors across sessions or pages.
- All data is aggregated and cannot be used to identify any individual.
Because Umami collects no personal data, it is compliant with GDPR, PECR, and similar privacy regulations without requiring visitor consent.
Cookies
This website does not use tracking cookies. Public visitors to this site receive no cookies whatsoever.
The only cookie used on this site is an admin session cookie, which is set exclusively for authenticated administrators. This cookie is HTTP-only, Secure, and SameSite=Strict. It is used solely for authentication purposes and is never set for public visitors.
Contact form
When you submit the contact form, your message and optional email address are sent directly to our email. We do not store contact form submissions on our servers or in any database.
We do not log IP addresses or any other metadata from contact form submissions. Your email address, if provided, is used only to respond to your message and is not added to any mailing list or shared with any third party.
Public data
All councillor data displayed on this site is derived from publicly available sources. No private data is collected about any individual. Sources include:
- Cornwall Council's ModernGov portal (meeting records, attendance, committee memberships)
- Published councillor allowances and expenses PDFs
- Public news articles from local and regional media
- Public Twitter/X posts from councillor accounts
If you are a councillor and believe any information displayed about you is inaccurate, please contact us and we will review and correct it promptly.
Your rights under GDPR
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights in relation to any personal data we may hold:
- Right of access — the right to request a copy of any personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification — the right to request correction of inaccurate data.
- Right to erasure — the right to request deletion of your personal data.
- Right to restrict processing — the right to request that we limit how we use your data.
- Right to data portability — the right to receive your data in a portable format.
- Right to object — the right to object to processing of your personal data.
In practice, because we collect almost no personal data, these rights are unlikely to be relevant to most visitors. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Data retention
Analytics data is retained by Umami indefinitely. Because all analytics data is aggregated and contains no personal information, this does not affect individual privacy.
Contact form messages received via email are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry and are then deleted.
Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.