Effective date: 14 October 2026
The Riser (“we”, “our”, “us”) operates the website https://theriser.co.uk (“the Site”), a UK business and finance advice blog. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, and your rights.
1. What we collect
a) Information you give us directly — If you email us (for example at ellenstevensone@gmail.com) or use a contact form: your name, email address, and the contents of your message. If you leave a comment on an article: your name, email address, website (if provided), and the comment text.
b) Information collected automatically — Technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device type, and pages visited. We use this to keep the Site secure and to understand which articles readers find useful. Cookies and similar technologies (see section 4). We do not ask for, and you should not send us, sensitive personal data such as bank details, national insurance numbers, or identity documents.
2. How we use your information
We use your data to:
- respond to your questions, suggestions, and collaboration or guest-post enquiries;
- publish comments you choose to leave on our articles;
- keep the Site secure, prevent spam and abuse, and fix technical problems;
- understand readership in aggregate so we can improve our content.
We do not sell your personal data to anyone.
3. Legal basis (UK GDPR)
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, we process your data on these bases: Consent — for example, when you email us or leave a comment; Legitimate interests — keeping the Site secure and understanding aggregate readership.
4. Cookies
The Site uses cookies for: Essential cookies: remembering basic preferences and keeping the Site working; Analytics cookies: helping us understand, in aggregate, how readers use the Site; Advertising cookies: our advertising partners, including Google, may use cookies to serve adverts based on your visits to this and other sites (see section 5). You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
5. Advertising (Google AdSense)
We use Google AdSense to display advertising on the Site. Google may use cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other websites. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads. For more information see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
6. Who we share data with
We share data only where necessary: our web hosting provider; email and spam-protection services; analytics and advertising providers described above. We will also disclose data if required by UK law.
7. Data retention
Emails and contact messages: up to 24 months. Comments: as long as the article is published. Technical/analytics data: aggregated up to 26 months.
8. Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
- ask for a copy of your data;
- correct inaccurate data;
- ask us to delete your data;
- object to or restrict processing;
- withdraw consent;
- complain to the ICO at https://ico.org.uk.
9. Children’s privacy
The Site is aimed at adult business readers, not children under 13.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy; the current version will always be published on this page.
11. Contact us
For any privacy question email ellenstevensone@gmail.com.
