Privacy Policy
Last reviewed: 11 July 2026
Galashiels Heritage Watch is an independent heritage website documenting lost, at-risk and historically interesting buildings and structures in Galashiels.
Who Runs This Website
The website is maintained by Patrick Maitland-Cullen. You can contact the site by email at patrickmc107@me.com.
What Personal Information Is Collected
This website does not ask visitors to create an account or submit personal details through a public form. If you choose to contact the site by email, your name, email address and any information you include in your message will be received and used to reply to you.
The website may also collect ordinary technical information through hosting, security, spam-prevention or analytics tools. This may include information such as your IP address, browser type, pages visited, approximate location and the time of your visit.
How Information Is Used
- To reply to messages sent to the website.
- To maintain the security and reliability of the website.
- To understand, in broad terms, how visitors use the site and which pages are useful.
- To improve the content, accessibility and presentation of the website.
Cookies and Analytics
WordPress, the website host and any connected services may use cookies or similar technologies for essential site functions, security and basic measurement. If analytics services are active, they are used to understand visitor numbers and page use at an aggregate level, not to identify individual visitors personally.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the website work.
Cookie Details
The table below is maintained by the site cookie-consent tool and lists cookies configured for this website.
Sharing Information
Personal information sent to the website is not sold. It may be shared only where necessary to operate the website, respond to your enquiry, comply with the law, or protect the security of the site.
How Long Information Is Kept
Email correspondence is kept only for as long as it remains useful for the purpose it was sent, or where there is a reasonable need to keep a record. Technical logs and analytics information are retained according to the settings of the hosting, security and analytics services used by the site.
Your Rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have rights to ask for access to personal information held about you, to ask for corrections, to ask for deletion in some circumstances, or to object to some uses of your information.
To ask about personal information connected with this website, email patrickmc107@me.com. You can also find guidance about data protection rights on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.
External Links
This website links to external resources, including public registers, archives, planning records and social media pages. Those websites have their own privacy policies and are responsible for how they handle information when you visit them.
Updates to This Policy
This privacy policy will be reviewed as the website develops, especially if new contact forms, mailing lists, comments, analytics or other visitor services are added.