Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Visit Bewdley is a destination website supporting Bewdley, local businesses, community organisations, events, and visitors.

The website originally began as an independent project created to support the town and its community. It is now operated as part of my business activities through Paul James Digital.

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is collected, used, stored and protected when you use Visit Bewdley, submit information, contact me, subscribe to updates, or interact with services connected with this website.

1. Who is responsible for your data?

Mr Paul James
Trading as Paul James Digital
Paul James Digital C/O Penn & Co Ltd
5 Load Street
BEWDLEY
Worcestershire
DY12 2AF

Email: [email protected]

I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller.

ICO registration reference: ZC168770
Registration date: 08 June 2026
Registration expiry date: 07 June 2027

2. Information I collect

Depending on how you interact with Visit Bewdley, I may collect:

• Name, email address and contact details you provide.
• Organisation and business information.
• Event and directory listing information.
• Images, logos, documents or links supplied for publication.
• Newsletter email address and communication preferences.
• Limited technical information such as browser type and anonymised usage information.

3. Event and directory information

Visit Bewdley provides local information about events, organisations, businesses and places of interest.

Information may be submitted directly by organisations or may be sourced from publicly available sources such as websites, public event pages, community noticeboards and other public listings.

If you represent an organisation, business, venue or event and believe information published on Visit Bewdley is inaccurate, outdated or should be removed, please contact:
[email protected]

4. How I use your information

• Managing and publishing events and directory listings.
• Responding to enquiries.
• Maintaining accurate information.
• Sending newsletters where you have actively subscribed.
• Improving website performance and content.
• Maintaining appropriate business records.

5. Lawful basis for processing

Processing is carried out using appropriate UK GDPR lawful bases, including legitimate interests for operating the website and consent for optional newsletter communications.

6. Newsletter subscriptions

If you choose to subscribe to Visit Bewdley updates, your email address will be used to send newsletters and relevant information connected with Visit Bewdley.

Subscriptions use double opt-in. After entering your email address, you will receive a confirmation email and the subscription only becomes active after confirmation.

Newsletter subscriptions are managed through Brevo, which provides email delivery and subscription management services on my behalf.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link included in each newsletter.

7. Privacy-focused technology

Visit Bewdley has been designed with privacy in mind. The website does not use advertising trackers, behavioural advertising technologies, Facebook/Meta tracking tools, Google Analytics or Google Maps.

Matomo Analytics

Visit Bewdley uses Matomo Analytics to understand overall website usage and improve the visitor experience.

• Cookieless measurement where configured.
• Anonymised IP addresses.
• No individual visitor profiles.
• No User ID tracking.
• No cross-site tracking.
• No advertising profiling.
• Aggregated reporting.
• Limited data retention.

Analytics are used for statistical understanding of website performance and are not used to identify individuals or create behavioural profiles.

Analytics opt-out

You can choose not to have your visit included in website analytics statistics.