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How your information is used when you visit this website or get in touch.
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Who is responsible
William Turnbull, trading as Turnbull Scientific Communications, is responsible for the personal information covered by this notice. Contact will@turnbullscientific.uk with any privacy question or request.
This notice covers this website and initial business enquiries. Any additional arrangements for handling client materials can be agreed as part of a project.
When you get in touch
The contact link opens your email application. If you send a message, the information received may include your name, email address, organisation, correspondence and any attachments you choose to provide. It is used to answer your enquiry, discuss a possible project and maintain the relevant business correspondence.
For general business enquiries, the lawful basis is legitimate interests: responding to people who contact the business. Where you ask for steps towards a contract with you, the basis is taking those steps at your request. Providing information is optional, but sufficient contact and project details are needed to respond.
Please avoid sending identifiable patient information or other sensitive personal information in an initial enquiry.
Website hosting and security
Cloudflare hosts and delivers this website. It processes technical information such as IP addresses, requested pages, browser information and request times to deliver pages, prevent abuse and investigate technical problems. The lawful basis is the legitimate interest in operating a reliable, secure website.
Hosting and email service providers process information as needed to supply their services. Information may also be disclosed where required by law. Cloudflare operates internationally, so website data may be processed outside the UK, including in the United States. Its Data Processing Addendum describes the applicable transfer safeguards, including contractual clauses and the UK Addendum where required. Further details are available in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
How long information is kept
Enquiries that do not lead to a project are retained for up to 12 months after the last contact, then deleted unless there is a specific legal need to keep them longer. If an enquiry becomes a project, relevant correspondence becomes part of the project records. Its retention depends on the work, contractual obligations and applicable accounting or legal requirements.
Technical records are retained according to the hosting service’s retention settings and any need to investigate faults or security incidents. The editor sign-in cookie expires after eight hours and is removed when the editor signs out.
Cookies on this site
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser. This website does not include advertising trackers or visitor analytics scripts. Ordinary browsing does not require the portfolio editor’s login cookie.
Cloudflare may also set security cookies if a protection feature is triggered. For example, cf_clearance records a successful security check; its duration depends on the challenge settings. These are conditional security measures, rather than cookies the website sets on every visit. See Cloudflare’s cookie information for details.
A consent pop-up is not used for strictly necessary cookies. You can delete or block cookies through your browser settings, although blocking the editor cookie prevents sign-in from working. If additional cookie uses are introduced, this notice and any required choices will be updated.
Your rights and choices
Depending on the circumstances, you can ask to access, correct or erase your personal information, restrict its use, or receive a portable copy. Contact will@turnbullscientific.uk to make a request.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests. Explain your circumstances when you contact us so your objection can be considered.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data protection regulator. You do not have to contact us first.