Surfers SPF
Coastal exposure field manual
Edition August 2026
Privacy

We hold an email address, and that is close to all of it

What data this site collects, what it is used for, how long it is kept and how to have it removed.

What we collect

If you subscribe to the newsletter: your email address, the type of subscription, the time you subscribed and the country code your request arrived with. That is the whole record.

We do not use cross site tracking, behavioural advertising, advertising cookies or ad networks. There is no display advertising on this site.

What it is used for

Sending the newsletter. Nothing else. The list is never shared, sold or rented, including to newsletter sponsors, who receive no subscriber information at all.

How long

Until you unsubscribe. The unsubscribe link is in the footer of every issue and takes effect immediately. You can also ask us to delete the record through contact.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask for access to the data we hold about you, its correction, its deletion, restriction of its processing, and portability, and you can object to processing. Write to us through contact. If you are not satisfied, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner's Office.

Fonts and hosting

The site loads two typefaces from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google's font servers when a page loads. Pages are served from a content delivery network, which processes the request in order to return the page. Neither is used by us to build a profile of you.

The tide line

One email a fortnight. What we have published, one correction if we got something wrong, and one note on the coming weeks that is not on the site. No products, no offers, no brand names.

We use your address for the newsletter and nothing else. Each issue may carry one labelled sponsor line, which buys no influence over anything we write. Details in newsletter and sponsorship and privacy.