Privacy Notice
Who is responsible
Sortwalnutstarada Marine Media Ltd is responsible for personal information it handles through this website and editorial correspondence. Contact us at [email protected] or 36 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LE, United Kingdom. Company no. SC784219.
Browsing this website
Loading a page involves sending technical information, including an IP address and browser request details, to the hosting infrastructure. Hosting providers may process access and security logs to deliver and protect the service. The supplied site does not include analytics scripts, advertising trackers, embedded social widgets or remote fonts.
The contact ledger
Text entered in the contact tool stays in the current page in your browser. The tool has no submission backend and does not save your draft in browser storage. Copying places the prepared text on your device clipboard when permission is available. Downloading creates a text file on your device. Your browser, operating system and any clipboard-synchronisation service may handle those copies independently.
If you send an email, we receive the information you choose to include, your email address and ordinary message metadata. Do not send passwords, medical information or confidential third-party records.
Purposes and legal bases
We use correspondence to answer enquiries, evaluate corrections and maintain an editorial record. Our usual basis is a legitimate interest in operating and improving this reference and responding to people who contact us. Information may also be retained where necessary to comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Consent is used where legally required for optional processing.
Recipients and retention
Hosting and email service providers may process information to deliver their services. We do not sell correspondence or personal information. Information may be disclosed where required by law. We retain correspondence only as long as reasonably necessary for the enquiry, relevant editorial records and applicable legal obligations, then delete or anonymise it. Provider logs are subject to the relevant provider's operational retention arrangements.
Where a service involves an international transfer, applicable data-protection requirements and appropriate safeguards must be met. Contact us if you need information about the handling of a specific enquiry.
Your choices and rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction or portability of your personal information, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it without affecting earlier lawful processing. We may need proportionate identity checks before responding.
You can raise a concern with us or complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office. These rights are subject to legal conditions and exemptions.
Links and updates
External links lead to independent websites with their own privacy practices. See our cookie notice for browser-storage information. We will update this notice when our practices materially change.