Privacy Policy

Effective date: 18 October 2026

AllBusinessideas (“we”, “our”, “us”) operates the website https://allbusinessideas.co.uk (“the Site”), a UK business ideas and entrepreneurship blog. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, and your rights.

1. What we collect

a) Information you give us directly

  • If you email us (for example at ellenstevensone@gmail.com) or use a contact form: your name, email address, and the contents of your message.
  • If you leave a comment on an article: your name, email address, website (if provided), and the comment text.

b) Information collected automatically

  • Technical data such as your IP address, browser type, device type, and pages visited. We use this to keep the Site secure and to understand which articles readers find useful.
  • Cookies and similar technologies (see section 4).

We do not ask for, and you should not send us, sensitive personal data such as bank details, national insurance numbers, or identity documents.

2. How we use your information

We use your data to:

  • Respond to your questions, suggestions, and collaboration or guest-post enquiries;
  • Publish comments you choose to leave on our articles;
  • Keep the Site secure, prevent spam and abuse, and fix technical problems;
  • Understand readership in aggregate (for example, which business idea guides are most read) so we can improve our content.

We do not sell your personal data to anyone.

3. Legal basis (UK GDPR)

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, we process your data on these bases:

  • Consent — for example, when you email us or leave a comment;
  • Legitimate interests — keeping the Site secure and understanding aggregate readership.

4. Cookies

The Site uses cookies — small text files stored on your device — for:

  • Essential cookies: remembering basic preferences and keeping the Site working;
  • Analytics cookies: helping us understand, in aggregate, how readers use the Site;
  • Advertising cookies: our advertising partners, including Google, may use cookies to serve adverts based on your visits to this and other sites (see section 5).

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the Site works.

5. Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertising on the Site. Google may use cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other websites.

  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
  • You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices/

For more information on how Google uses data when you use our Site, see Google’s Privacy & Terms: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

6. Who we share data with

We share data only where necessary to run the Site:

  • Our web hosting provider (to serve the Site);
  • Email and spam-protection services (to deliver messages and block spam);
  • Analytics and advertising providers described above (in aggregated or pseudonymised form).

We will also disclose data if required by UK law.

7. Data retention

  • Emails and contact messages: kept for up to 24 months, then deleted;
  • Comments: kept for as long as the relevant article is published, unless you ask us to remove them;
  • Technical and analytics data: kept in aggregated form for up to 26 months.

8. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

  • Ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate data;
  • Ask us to delete your data (“right to be forgotten”);
  • Object to or restrict how we process your data;
  • Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent);
  • Complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk if you believe we have mishandled your data.

9. Children’s privacy

The Site is aimed at adult business readers and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The current version will always be published on this page, with the effective date shown above.

11. Contact us

For any privacy question or request, email us at ellenstevensone@gmail.com and we will respond as quickly as possible.