Privacy & cookies

Last updated: July 2026

Analytics

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

You can find out more about the cookies that Squarespace uses here.

VISITORS

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

FONTS

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Embedded videos and links to other websites

This website includes videos embedded from YouTube and Vimeo. When you visit a page containing an embedded video, YouTube or Vimeo may collect information about your device and your interaction with the video. They may also use cookies or similar technologies, particularly if you play the video or are signed into their services.

You can find more information in the following policies:

This website also contains links to third party websites, including LinkedIn. When you follow an external link, the relevant website may collect information about your visit and place cookies on your device. Its use of your information will be governed by its own privacy and cookie policies.

You can read the LinkedIn Privacy Policy and LinkedIn Cookie Policy.

These third party policies may change, so you should consult them directly for the latest information.

Information you send by email

If you contact me by email, I will receive the personal information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address and the contents of your message.

I will use this information only to respond to your enquiry, communicate with you about potential or ongoing work, and maintain appropriate business records. I do not sell or share your personal information for marketing purposes.

I will retain email correspondence only for as long as it is reasonably needed for these purposes, or where I am required to keep it for legal, tax or accounting reasons.

Who is responsible for your information?

This website is operated by Gareth Benest. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how your personal information is used, you can contact me using this email link.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to ask for access to the personal information I hold about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, or to request that your information is deleted or its use restricted.

You may also have the right to object to how your information is used or to ask for it to be transferred to another organisation. These rights may depend on the circumstances and are not always absolute.

If you have concerns about how your personal information has been handled, please contact me first so that I can try to resolve them. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.