This web site and its owner
Date: 7th June 2026.
This web site, jimmortimore.co.uk, is the primary Web presence of Jim Mortimore; writer, composer, musician, artist and all-round good guy.
Neither Jim nor the web site’s administrator(s) have the slightest interest in tracking site visitors around the Interwebs or in hoovering up their personal data; much less in selling those data to third parties.
So they don’t. They have better things to be getting on with.
This privacy policy
Jim reserves the right to update / modify this site’s privacy policy and its included terms and conditions at any time.
Web hosting
This web site is hosted in the UK. The hosting provider is Fasthosts.
When you visit any web site, the web server becomes aware of your IP address (or the IP address of the exit node should you happen to be using a VPN). It has to or else how would it be able to send the web pages you want to see back to your browser? Such is the nature of the Internet. The web server also knows which pages you visit, when you visited them and so on… How can it not? It’s the web server itself that sends ’em to you.
Most hosting providers, if not all, log information of this kind and keep it on file for some or other length of time. That’s just a fact of life. Not that it’s necessarily a bad thing, much less a malicious one. Log files can be crucial during fault finding or when fending off online attacks.
Feel free to read Fasthosts’ privacy policy.
WordPress
This web site runs on the WordPress CMS, and therefore uses WordPress CMS’s functionalities.
WordPress sets very few cookies for non-logged in visitors — and this site doesn’t currently allow visitors to log in.
It does set commenter’s cookies when a comment is left on a blog post, mark you. This, WordPress informs us, is for convenience; saving the commenter from having to tap in all their details again should they decide to leave further comments.
Feel free to read more about WordPress cookies.
Blog post comments
This web site currently allows visitors to leave publicly visible comments in reply to blog posts. Jim welcomes well-mannered, polite and respectful discourse as part of this blog — including the airing of conflicting views.
He reserves the right, however, to permanently delete any comments he considers unacceptable and to permanently ban / block any user; all with neither notice nor consultation. His decision is final.
By posting comments on this web site, you agree to these conditions.
Contacting Jim
This web site uses the WPForms Lite plug-in, with GDPR Enhancements switched on, to power the contact form.
Use of this contact form initiates a correspondence.
This form fires off an email to Jim. No copy of this email, or its contents, is kept on the web site. From that point on, it becomes a good old fashioned email correspondence between whoever used the form and him.
If you use this form to get in touch with Jim you must provide a name, an email address and an actual message. Such is the nature of polite email communication. You also consent to Jim keeping these, along with all subsequent correspondence, on file indefinitely. Such are the conventions of written correspondence.
By contacting Jim using the contact form, you agree to these conditions.
Feel free to read WPForms’ security and compliance FAQ.
Subscribing to blog post notifications
This web site uses the MailPoet plug-in and sending service to power blog post notifications.
If you want to get automated notifications whenever Jim posts a new blog entry you may use the sign-up form on the blog page to subscribe. You may only subscribe yourself, using an email address belonging to you, or somebody else, having first obtained their express informed permission to do so.
Logically, this will mean that the name and email address you provide will be registered with and visible to this web site and to the MailPoet sending service. They’ll also be visible to Jim and the web site’s administrator(s). Also, to the hosting provider. Such, all told, is the nature of the beast. These details will stay registered unless / until you unsubscribe (or, should there be a policy violation, are unsubscribed).
Subscribers are of course at liberty to unsubscribe at any time.
Following unsubscription, this personal information will be deleted using the MailPoet plug-in.
By subscribing to blog post notifications, you agree to these conditions.
Feel free to read MailPoet’s privacy policy. (More accurately, that of Automattic, the company that makes that prouduct.)