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Privacy Policy
This page explains what personal information may be collected when you use the Arctic Viking H452 website, how cookies and analytics are used, and how to contact the site owner about privacy or copyright concerns.
Overview
A personal-history research website
This website is a personal-history and documentary research project about the Arctic Viking H452, Hull fishing history, the 1961 sinking, the crew, the inquiry, the later court case and related research.
The site is mainly informational. It does not sell products, run user accounts, publish comments, or knowingly collect sensitive personal information from visitors. It does include a contact form so visitors can send family information, corrections, copyright questions, research leads or general enquiries.
This policy is written as a practical website notice, not as formal legal advice.
Data collected
What the site may collect
When you visit the site, basic technical information may be processed automatically by hosting providers, analytics tools or cookie-management tools. This can include your IP address, browser type, device type, approximate location, pages visited, referring website, and the time and date of your visit.
If you contact the author by email or through the contact form, any information you send, such as your name, email address, query type, subject, message and any family-history or copyright details you provide, will be used to respond to your enquiry and manage the research project.
The site should not be used to submit confidential, highly sensitive or third-party personal information unless it is necessary for your enquiry and you are comfortable sharing it by email.
Cookies and analytics
CookieHub and Google Analytics
This website currently includes CookieHub, a cookie-consent service, and Google Analytics. These tools may set cookies or similar technologies to remember cookie choices, measure visits and help understand how people use the site.
Analytics are used to understand broad patterns such as which pages are visited and whether the site is working well. The aim is not to identify individual visitors.
You can control cookies through the cookie banner where available and through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect analytics or consent preferences, but the main content of the site should remain available.
Use and retention
How information is used
Information may be used to operate and improve the website, understand visitor interest, respond to emails, handle correction requests, manage copyright or takedown requests, protect the site from misuse, and maintain the research record.
Email correspondence may be kept for as long as it is useful for the research, permissions, corrections, copyright record, or family-history context. Analytics data is retained according to the settings of the analytics service.
Personal information is not sold. It may be shared only where needed with service providers, such as website hosting, analytics, cookie management or email providers, or where required by law.
Your rights
Access, correction and removal requests
If you have contacted the author or believe the website contains personal information about you or a family member, you can ask for it to be reviewed, corrected or removed where appropriate.
Requests can be sent to info@arcticviking.co.uk. Please include enough detail to identify the page or material concerned.
The website includes historical and journalistic research material. Some information may be retained where there is a legitimate historical, research, memorial or public-interest reason to do so, but correction requests will be considered carefully.