Privacy Policy

We take your privacy seriously and abide by the Editorial Code of Conduct.

By visiting our website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purposes of the Data Protection laws currently applicable in the UK, we do not collect any personally identifiable information from your visit. The site will log usage, views and other anonymised behaviour data using your IP address for the purposes of improving the site’s performance.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. You may give us information about you by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you advertise, sponsor or donate. The information you give us may include your name, address, email address, phone number.
Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website www.silverstonenewsandviews.com, we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including the date and time); pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, lengths of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, if you linked to our site from another website, the address of that website, and, if you linked to the site from a search engine, the address of that search engine and the search term you used.

Uses made of the information

We use the information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We may use this information to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, to provide you with the services you request from us, to notify you about changes to or to make suggestions and recommendations or to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
Information we collect about you. We will use this information in one or more of the following ways;
- to administer our website
- to provide services under a contract or agreement;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your chosen device;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so;
- to carry out research where permission has been granted or generic research that does not involve personal data;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- To confirm that you are a human not a bot;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you about services you have requested from us.

Exercising your rights

Where Silverstone News & Views is the Data Controller. You may revoke your consent to the processing of your data, ask for information about any personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete that information by sending an email to silverstonenewsandviews@gmail.com. Please be specific about your requirement. You may be sent a form to complete and may be asked to provide identification.

Any Subject Access Request is free of charge providing the information requested is not deemed “manifestly unfounded or excessive”.

Other sites. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Accessibility Policy

Silverstone News & Views will make every effort for all pages on this site to conform to AA standard of WCAG 2.1. We will continue to make improvements and make sure this website conforms to these guidelines. We are not responsible for the accessibility of any third-party websites which this site may link to. With respect to the provision of services online we have implemented a number of features to make this website easy to use, especially for users with disabilities. The following features improve navigation for text only browsers, screen reader users, and users of keyboard navigation.

Style Sheets. This site uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for visual layout. If your browser supports it, style sheets can be disabled or over-ridden to customise the appearance of the website, to your preference.
Tabbing Order. We appreciate that not all people using our sites can use a mouse; we will ensure that all of our websites can be browsed in a logical manner using a keyboard. Pressing the ‘Tab’ key while on a web page will select the next link on the page. You can press ‘Tab’ repeatedly to get to the chosen link. The selected link is indicated by the dotted border around the link. Once your chosen link is selected, you can trigger it by pressing the ‘Enter’ key on your keyboard. You can move backwards through links by pressing ‘Shift’ + ‘Tab’ together.
Font Size. You can change the font size of each page to your preference through the browser.
- In Internet Explorer, select ‘View’, then ‘Text Size’, and then your preferred size.
- In Firefox press ‘CTRL +’ to increase font size and ‘CTRL -‘ to decrease. ‘CTRL 0’ will reset sizes to default.
- In Chrome press ‘CTRL +’ to increase font size and ‘CTRL -‘ to decrease. ‘CTRL 0’ will reset sizes to default.
- In Safari, select ‘View’, then ‘Text Size’, and then your preferred size.
- In Opera, select ‘View’, then ‘Text Size’, and then your preferred size.
Forms. Labels are used to assist access to form fields. All forms follow a logical tab sequence.
Colours. The site has been designed to be easy to read through its colour combinations. If you have any difficulty in reading parts of the site, try increasing the font size, or try altering the visual appearance of your browser. Due to product branding, some pages contain red text. If you have any issues reading this text, please contact us for assistance.
Links. We have worked hard to ensure that our links are meaningful, and some links are explained in greater detail by using a title attribute, visible when hovering over the link.
Scripting. JavaScript may be used on the site to improve usability. All pages and processes are still accessible and usable if JavaScript is disabled or unavailable.
Standards. This website is built to HTML5 and CSS 2.0 standards. To ensure code quality and that standards are maintained we are committed to checking this on a regular basis.
Browsers. This website will function and look as intended in browsers that support these standards. The most common of these are:
- Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Safari and Opera on Windows
- Safari, Chrome and Firefox on Mac OS

If you do not have one of these browsers installed or are unable to upgrade, you may find the website easier to use by disabling CSS altogether. Please see your browser’s help documentation for further information.

WAVE. We have utilised the reporting and assessment provided by WAVE. This provides error reporting, alert reporting and describes issues that it detects on the website by category. Our WAVE report highlights:

multiple uses of the same link within the page text as an alert. This is within the context of the text and will not be fixed.
errors on visibility on the pages that contain the red text. The red text is part of the branding of that solution and will not be fixed.
the presence of two common script alerts across all pages. These are associated with the script we use for monitoring website traffic and will not be fixed.
the presence of PDF links on the page. Where a PDF is present, we have indicated this within the text.
the presence of linked icons whose title is repeated within the title of the blog. These offer an additional method by which to access the blog and will not be fixed.

Should you have any difficulty in accessing the information you require, please email silverstonenewsandviews@gmail.com and we will be pleased to help.