Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 June 2026

This website (williamshirkie.com) is a personal website operated by William Shirkie. Its purpose is to provide information about my professional background, technical interests and personal projects.

Information Collection

Visitors can browse this website without creating an account, submitting forms or providing personal information.

I do not intentionally collect, sell, rent or share personal information through this website.

Cookies and Tracking

This website does not currently use analytics platforms, advertising networks, behavioural tracking technologies or similar profiling tools.

No non-essential cookies are knowingly placed on visitors' devices by this website.

Should this change in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any required consent mechanisms will be implemented.

Hosting and Security

This website is hosted using Cloudflare Pages. As part of delivering, securing and optimising the website, Cloudflare may process certain technical information such as IP addresses, browser information, device information and network diagnostic data.

This processing is performed by Cloudflare for operational, security and performance purposes.

External Links

This website may contain links to external websites, including LinkedIn and other third-party services.

I am not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices of external websites. Visitors should review the privacy policies of any external services they choose to use.

Data Protection

This website is operated from the United Kingdom and is intended to comply with applicable UK data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 where applicable.

As this website does not intentionally collect personal information, most visitor rights under data protection legislation are unlikely to be relevant in practice. However, any privacy-related enquiries will be considered appropriately.

Changes to this Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, hosting arrangements or applicable legal requirements. Any updates will be published on this page.

Contact

For privacy-related enquiries regarding this website, please contact me via my LinkedIn profile.