What this site knows about you, and what it does with it.

The honest answer is: very little, and nothing without a reason. This notice is written in plain English because there is nothing here that needs hiding behind drafting. The controller is Paul Faulkner, trading as Hostile Solutions, England. Contact: paul@hostilesolutions.com.

The Processing Register

Every processing activity, on the record.

R·01 · Case intake

The details you type into the intake form — name, email, organisation, role, and what you tell us about the matter. Purpose: to read, assess and respond to the matter, and to run any engagement that follows. Lawful basis · legitimate interests; contract once an engagement exists
Retention · enquiries that do not become engagements: deleted within 12 months · engagement records: 6 years after conclusion

R·02 · Correspondence

Emails you send to this practice. Purpose: dealing with what you wrote to us about. Lawful basis · legitimate interests
Retention · as R·01

R·03 · Server logs

Standard web-server request data — IP address, timestamp, page requested, browser identifier — recorded by our hosting infrastructure. Purpose: security, abuse prevention, and keeping the site running. Lawful basis · legitimate interests
Retention · rotated on the host’s standard short cycle

R·04 · Engagements

The material and records of a forensic engagement, handled under the confidentiality standard agreed at scoping. Purpose: performing the engagement. Lawful basis · contract
Retention · per the engagement terms; 6 years after conclusion by default

The Rest, Plainly

One processor. No transfers. No profiling.

One processor. This site and its mailboxes are hosted by our UK hosting provider, Unlimited Web Hosting Ltd, which processes the above on our infrastructure’s behalf. There are no others — no analytics vendors, no mailing-list platforms, no form processors. Data is hosted in the UK and is not transferred internationally by us.

No automated decision-making or profiling takes place. This site is not directed at children.

Your rights under UK GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability. Write to paul@hostilesolutions.com and you will get an answer from the person who actually holds the data — one of the advantages of there being exactly one of him. If you are unhappy with how data has been handled, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this notice are made by revision, recorded below — never silently. How intake is handled operationally is described on the case intake page.

Document: HS-PRIVACY · Rev 1.0
Controller: Paul Faulkner t/a Hostile Solutions · England
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