Privacy Policy
Last updated: 25 September 2026
Stratstone Publishing Ltd respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit https://stratstonepublishing.com, contact us, submit information through our website, or otherwise interact with Stratstone Publishing Ltd.
Other websites, brands and services operated by Stratstone Publishing Ltd may have their own privacy notices where appropriate.
1. Who We Are
Stratstone Publishing Ltd is the data controller responsible for the personal data described in this Privacy Policy.
Company: Stratstone Publishing Ltd Company number: 13814093 Registered and trading address: The Old Farmhouse, Low Crompton Road, Manchester, England, OL2 6YP Privacy Contact: Ben Jackson Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)161 627 4061
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal data, please contact us using the details above.
2. What This Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected through stratstonepublishing.com and through direct interactions with Stratstone Publishing Ltd in connection with this website.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites or to other websites operated by Stratstone Publishing Ltd. Where another website has its own privacy notice, that notice may apply to information collected through that website.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of independent third-party websites.
3. What Is Personal Data?
Personal data is information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
This may include information such as your name, email address, telephone number, IP address, online identifiers and information you provide when contacting or interacting with us.
4. Personal Data We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal data:
Identity and contact information, such as your name, email address, telephone number and other contact information you provide.
Enquiry and correspondence information, including information contained in emails, contact forms, partnership enquiries or other communications with us.
Marketing information, including your marketing preferences, subscription status and engagement with communications we send.
Technical and usage information, which may include your IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages visited, traffic source, website interactions and similar technical information.
Analytics and advertising information, which may include information about website visits, conversions, advertising interactions and attribution where analytics or marketing technologies are enabled.
Partnership or business information, where you contact us regarding a publishing relationship, collaboration or other commercial opportunity.
We ask that you do not provide sensitive personal information unless it is genuinely necessary for the purpose for which you are contacting us.
5. How We Collect Personal Data
We may collect personal data:
directly from you when you contact us, submit a form, subscribe to communications or otherwise provide information to us; automatically when you use our website through cookies and similar technologies; through analytics and advertising technologies; from service providers that help us operate our website, communications and measurement systems; and where appropriate, through publicly available or legitimate business sources in connection with a genuine business enquiry or relationship.
For more information about cookies and similar technologies, please see our Cookie Policy.
6. How and Why We Use Personal Data
We only use personal data where we have a lawful basis to do so.
We may use your personal data for the following purposes:
Operating and securing our website
We may process technical information to operate, maintain, secure and troubleshoot our website and systems.
Our lawful basis is generally our legitimate interests in operating a secure and effective website and business.
Responding to enquiries
If you contact us, we may use your contact details and the information contained in your enquiry to respond and communicate with you.
Depending on the nature of the enquiry, our lawful basis may be:
our legitimate interests in responding to business and customer enquiries; or taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Publishing and partnership enquiries
Where you contact us regarding a potential publishing arrangement, commercial relationship or partnership, we may process the information you provide to assess, discuss and manage that opportunity.
Our lawful basis may be our legitimate interests in developing and managing commercial relationships or taking steps at your request before entering into a contract.
Email and marketing communications
Where you subscribe to or request communications from us, we may use your contact details to send relevant information about Stratstone Publishing, our services, opportunities or related content.
Where required by law, we rely on your consent to send electronic marketing.
Where another lawful basis is permitted, we may rely on our legitimate interests, subject to your rights and applicable electronic-marketing rules.
You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time using the unsubscribe link contained in an email or by contacting us.
Analytics and website improvement
Where permitted and, where required, after obtaining your consent, we may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors use our website, which pages are visited and how our website performs.
This helps us improve our website, content, user experience and marketing.
Advertising and attribution
Where permitted and subject to applicable consent requirements, we may use advertising and measurement technologies to understand the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and customer journeys.
Where these technologies depend on consent, our lawful basis is consent.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
website security and functionality; remembering preferences; analytics and performance measurement; advertising measurement and attribution; and understanding website and customer journeys.
Non-essential cookies and similar technologies will be used subject to applicable consent requirements.
Where our cookie-management system provides this functionality, you may accept, reject or customise non-essential cookies and may change your preferences later.
More information is available in our Cookie Policy.
This replaces the current Privacy Policy statement that Stratstone does not place cookies. Your live Cookie Policy already describes analytics and marketing cookies, including GA4 and Meta technologies.
8. Service Providers and Other Recipients
We use third-party service providers to help operate our websites, communications, infrastructure and measurement systems.
Depending on the service involved, these may include providers such as:
Groove / GrooveDigital — website, funnel and digital-platform infrastructure; AWeber — email marketing, subscriber management and automation; Google — analytics and tag-management services, including Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager where enabled; Meta — advertising measurement and attribution technologies where enabled; Stape — server-side tracking infrastructure where enabled; Cloudflare — website, DNS, security and related infrastructure; Namecheap / PrivateEmail — domain and business-email infrastructure.
Your current infrastructure source confirms GroovePages/GrooveFunnels, AWeber, PrivateEmail/Namecheap, Cloudflare and the GTM Server/Stape/GA4/Meta stack as components of the Stratstone ecosystem.
We may also disclose personal data:
where required by law; to professional advisers where reasonably necessary; in connection with legal claims; to authorities where legally required; or as part of a genuine sale, restructuring, merger or transfer of all or part of our business.
We do not sell personal data to advertisers.
9. International Transfers
Some of the service providers we use operate internationally or may process personal data outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal data is transferred outside the UK, we take appropriate steps as required by applicable data-protection law.
Depending on the destination and provider, these protections may include:
UK adequacy regulations; approved contractual safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or applicable UK addendum to standard contractual clauses; or another lawful transfer mechanism.
You may contact us if you would like further information about the safeguards used for a particular transfer.
10. How Long We Keep Personal Data
We do not retain personal data for longer than reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
The retention period depends on factors including:
the reason we collected the information; whether an enquiry or commercial relationship remains active; applicable legal, accounting or regulatory requirements; the need to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; our legitimate business-record requirements; and whether you have withdrawn consent or unsubscribed from marketing.
Marketing contact information will generally be retained while you remain subscribed or while another lawful basis for retaining it applies.
Where you unsubscribe, we may retain limited information necessary to record and respect your opt-out.
Analytics and cookie-related information is retained according to the applicable configuration and provider retention periods.
This criteria-based approach is acceptable under the ICO framework; a privacy notice may state either the actual retention period or the criteria used to determine it.
11. How We Protect Personal Data
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure or access.
Measures may include:
limiting access to people who genuinely require it; using appropriate account and access controls; using reputable service providers; maintaining security controls across website and communications infrastructure; and responding appropriately to suspected personal-data breaches.
No method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Automated Processing and Profiling
We may use limited automated processing, analytics and segmentation to understand website activity, marketing performance and engagement.
We do not currently use solely automated decision-making that produces legal effects, or similarly significant effects, on individuals.
13. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law gives you rights including:
the right to be informed about how your personal data is used; the right to request access to your personal data; the right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information; the right to request deletion of personal data in certain circumstances; the right to request restriction of processing in certain circumstances; the right to object to certain processing; the right to data portability where applicable; the right to withdraw consent at any time where processing relies on consent; and rights relating to certain forms of automated decision-making.
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances and lawful basis involved.
To exercise a right, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before responding.
There is normally no charge for exercising your data-protection rights. We will respond within the timescales required by applicable law.
14. Complaints
If you have concerns about how we use your personal data, we would welcome the opportunity to address them directly.
You can contact us at:
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection.
Information about making a complaint is available at the ICO website.
15. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to websites operated by other organisations.
We do not control those organisations and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
We recommend reviewing the privacy notice of any external website before providing personal information to it.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, technology, service providers or legal obligations.
The latest version will be published on this page and the “Last updated” date will be changed accordingly.
Where a change materially affects how we use personal data, we will take appropriate steps to bring the change to the attention of affected individuals where required.