About Mike

Privacy policy

Last updated October 2026

LightGuru (lightguru.co.uk) is run by Mike Brain in the UK. This page explains what personal data the site collects and what happens to it. Questions: contact@lightguru.co.uk.

What the site collects

Analytics, only if you accept cookies. If you choose “Accept analytics” in the cookie banner, Google Analytics records which pages you visit, how you arrived, your device and browser, and your approximate location. Google Analytics does not store IP addresses. If you reject, analytics cookies aren’t set, and Google receives only cookieless signals with no identifier. Data is kept for the retention period set in the site’s Google Analytics account, no longer than 14 months.

Emails you send. If you email us, your name, address and message are used to reply and kept only as long as needed for that.

Hosting. The site is hosted on Vercel, which processes IP addresses and request details to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.

Search. Site search runs in your browser. What you type isn’t sent to us.

There are no accounts, comments, newsletters or contact forms on the site.

Some links go to shops, mostly Amazon UK, that pay a commission on purchases. When you click one, that shop or its affiliate network may set cookies on its own site to record the referral. Their privacy policies apply to what happens there.

Advertising

The site doesn’t show adverts at the moment. If an ad network is added, this page and the cookie banner will be updated before any advertising cookies are used.

Analytics cookies are used only with your consent. Hosting logs and replying to emails rely on legitimate interests: running the site securely and answering you.

Who processes data

Google (analytics) and Vercel (hosting) process data for us and may do so outside the UK, using safeguards approved for UK data transfers.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask to see, correct or delete personal data held about you, object to its use, and withdraw consent at any time using “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. Email contact@lightguru.co.uk. If you’re unhappy with the response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too.