Privacy Policy

South Coast Campsites is operated by Andy Brind and provides an online directory of campsites along the south coast of England.

Website: www.southcoastcampsites.com

Contact: andy@southcoastcampsites.com

We may collect the following types of personal data:

• Account data — email address when you create an account or sign in.
• Usage data — pages visited, time spent on pages, referring URLs, browser type and device information collected automatically via Google Analytics.
• Contact form data — your name, email address, and message when you contact us via our contact form.
• Cookies — see Section 5 below.

We do not collect sensitive personal data such as financial information, health data or government identity numbers.

We use your data to:

• Provide and improve our campsite directory service.
• Respond to enquiries submitted via our contact form.
• Manage your account if you register on the site.
• Analyse site usage to improve user experience (with your consent).
• Display relevant advertising via Google AdSense (with your consent).

We process your data on the following legal bases:

• Consent — for analytics and advertising cookies (you can withdraw at any time).
• Legitimate interests — for essential site functionality and security.
• Contract — to provide services you have requested (e.g. account management).

We use the following types of cookies:

• Essential cookies — necessary for the site to function (e.g. session cookies). These cannot be disabled.
• Analytics cookies — set by Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our site. Only placed with your consent.
• Advertising cookies — set by Google AdSense to display relevant ads. Only placed with your consent.

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time using our cookie settings. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and other sites. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings.

We use the following third-party services that may process your data:

• Google Analytics — website analytics. Google Privacy Policy
• Google AdSense — advertising. Google Privacy Policy
• Convex — database and backend services. Data is stored on secure servers.

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide our services:

• Account data — until you delete your account.
• Contact form submissions — up to 2 years.
• Analytics data — subject to Google Analytics retention settings (default 14 months).

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — request correction of inaccurate data.
• Erasure — request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
• Restriction — request that we restrict processing of your data.
• Portability — request your data in a machine-readable format.
• Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Withdraw consent — at any time for consent-based processing (e.g. cookies).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at andy@southcoastcampsites.com. We will respond within 30 days.

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's data protection authority:

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
ico.org.uk | 0303 123 1113

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last updated. We encourage you to check this page periodically.