Privacy Policy | Stephen J. Morgan

Effective date: 31 March 2026

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, and protected when you visit www.stephendjmorgan.org. This website is a personal blog and independent consultancy platform operated by Stephen J. Morgan, reflecting over two decades of work in environmental consulting and wastewater treatment — work that has its roots in years of community campaigning in Portsmouth South.

I take your privacy seriously. This policy is written plainly and honestly, because transparency is a value I hold in my professional work as much as in anything else.

Information We Collect

This website may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide directly. If you use the contact form on this site, your name, email address, and any details you include in your message will be submitted and stored via Netlify Forms, the form processing service used by this site. You are under no obligation to provide any personal information, and doing so is entirely at your discretion.

Automatically collected information. This site uses basic, privacy-respecting website analytics to understand how visitors engage with content — for example, which articles are read most frequently and how people navigate the site. This data is aggregated and does not identify you personally. No invasive tracking or advertising profiling takes place.

Cookies. This site uses minimal cookies. Analytics functionality may set a lightweight cookie to distinguish between visits. No cookies are used for advertising, retargeting, or any commercial profiling purpose.

How We Use Your Information

Information submitted through the contact form is used solely to respond to your enquiry and, where relevant, to provide the consultancy services or information you have requested. I do not use contact form data for unsolicited marketing and will not add you to any mailing list without your explicit agreement.

Aggregated analytics data is used to improve the quality and relevance of content on this site — to understand which articles on topics such as polyacrylamide flocculants, sludge dewatering, and sustainable water treatment are most useful to readers, and to guide future writing accordingly.

Sharing Your Information

I do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with any third party for commercial purposes.

Contact form submissions are processed by Netlify, Inc., whose own privacy policy governs their handling of that data. Netlify operates under applicable data protection frameworks. No other third-party data processors receive your personal information through use of this site.

Cookies and Analytics

You may configure your browser to decline cookies. Doing so will not prevent you from accessing or reading content on this site. If you have concerns about analytics tracking, most modern browsers include controls to limit this, and privacy-focused browser extensions may also assist.

Data Security

Reasonable technical measures are in place to protect information submitted through this site against unauthorised access, disclosure, or loss. As with any online service, however, no method of transmission over the internet is entirely without risk, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to request access to any personal data held about you, to request its correction or deletion, and to object to or restrict its processing. To exercise any of these rights, please contact me directly using the details below. I will respond to all such requests within one calendar month.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes in how this site operates or in applicable legal requirements. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated accordingly. I encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact

For any questions about this Privacy Policy, or to exercise your data rights, please contact:

Stephen J. Morgan
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +44 23 9284 5678

Privacy, like clean water, is something that ought to be a straightforward right rather than a privilege you have to fight for. The same commitment to transparency and accountability that shaped my years of public service in Portsmouth South shapes how I run this website. If you have any concerns about how your information is handled here, please don’t hesitate to get in touch — I will always give you a straight answer.