Privacy Notice
Last updated: 16 June 2026
This privacy notice explains how personal information is collected and used when you visit this website.
This is a UK-based website. Where we collect or use personal information, we do so under UK data protection law, including the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
This is the website for the promotion of the book Building Better Regulators by Lyndon Nelson and Gavin Stewart. We use the website to provide information about the book, related articles and events, and, where applicable, to allow visitors to contact us.
We aim to collect only the information needed to run the website, understand how it is used, respond to enquiries, and provide any services you request.
Website hosting and analytics
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including information about your browser, network and device, the pages you view, the pages or websites you visited before coming to this website, and your IP address.
Squarespace uses this information to provide, protect and improve its platform and services. We also use Squarespace analytics to understand site traffic and activity, such as pages visited, links clicked, searches, scrolling and timestamps.
Where required, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies for analytics.
Links to retailers and other websites
This website may contain links to third-party websites, including booksellers, publishers, event platforms or social media sites. If you click those links, those third parties may collect and use your personal information under their own privacy notices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites.
How long we keep personal information
We do not intend to keep personal information from this website for longer than is needed.
If you contact us using the contact form, we will use the information you provide to respond to your enquiry. We will not add you to a mailing list or use your details for marketing unless you separately agree to this.
We may keep contact form messages for a limited period where needed to manage correspondence, respond to follow-up questions, or keep a reasonable record of the enquiry. We will delete information when it is no longer needed.
Squarespace and other service providers may process and retain some website visitor information, such as technical, analytics, security or cookie information, in accordance with their own policies and settings.
Fonts
This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
Your IP address
Changes
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page.
Your rights and complaints
You have rights under UK data protection law. These may include the right to ask for a copy of your personal information, to ask us to correct or delete it, to object to or restrict certain processing, and to withdraw consent where we rely on consent.
If you have a question or concern about how we use your personal information, please contact us first using the contact form on this website.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection. You can contact the ICO through its website or by calling its helpline on 0303 123 1113.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy notice, or if you want to exercise your data protection rights, you can contact us using the contact form on this website. The contact form asks for your name, email address and message. We use that information to respond to your enquiry. We do not use it for marketing.
