Privacy policy
What this site collects, why, who else sees it and what you can do about it — under the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
This policy explains what happens to information about you when you use this website: what is collected, why, who else sees it, and what you can do about it. It is written for the law that applies to you as a visitor in the United Kingdom — the UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
Last updated 8 September 2026
Who is responsible for your information
ParkingCharges.co.uk is published by Skaar Media AS, a Norwegian limited company (aksjeselskap), which is the data controller for this site.
Skaar Media AS
Stronda 4
4329 Sandnes
Norway
Registered in the Foretaksregisteret, the Norwegian register of business enterprises, under organisation number 931 122 398. Represented by Simon Skaar.
You can reach us about anything in this policy by email at info@parkingcharges.co.uk, or by telephone on +47 458 12 168. Data protection questions reach Simon Skaar directly.
We are not established in the United Kingdom. That does not change your rights. The UK GDPR applies to us because this site is offered to people in the United Kingdom, and the Information Commissioner's Office is the authority you can complain to.
What we collect, and why
| What | Why | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Server log entries — your IP address, the page requested, the time, and your browser's user agent | To keep the site running, diagnose faults and defend against abuse | Our legitimate interests in operating a secure and working website |
| Your cookie choice | So the site remembers what you decided and does not ask again on every page | Strictly necessary for a service you asked for |
| Analytics about how the site is used — pages viewed, approximate location from a truncated IP address, device and browser | To see which pages are read and which are not, so we know what to fix and what to write next | Your consent |
| Advertising identifiers and the data Google's advertising systems collect in your browser | To show advertising, which is what pays for the site | Your consent |
| What you type into the contact form — your name, your email address and your message | To read your message and reply to it | Your consent, and our legitimate interest in answering people who write to us |
| A one-way hash of your IP address when you use the contact form | To stop the form being used to send bulk mail. The address itself is never stored — only an irreversible hash, salted with a value unique to this site | Our legitimate interest in preventing abuse of the form |
We do not ask you to create an account, we do not sell information about you to anyone, and we do not build profiles of individual readers.
Cookies and similar storage
The rules on storing anything in your browser are in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Those rules were restructured by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 and the current version took effect on 5 February 2026: storage now needs your consent unless it falls within one of the exceptions listed in Schedule A1 to those Regulations.
Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, regulation 6 and Schedule A1
What is stored without asking
Only the record of your own cookie choice, and whatever is strictly necessary to deliver the page you asked for. Both fall inside the exception for a service you requested.
What is stored only if you agree
Analytics storage, used by Google Analytics. Advertising storage, used by Google's advertising systems. Nothing in this group is written before you answer the banner. Until you do, the tag is loaded but every storage permission is set to denied, so no identifier is created and nothing is stored in your browser.
Why we ask rather than rely on the statistics exception. Schedule A1 does allow storage for statistics about how a website is used without consent — but only where the information is not shared with anyone else except to help make improvements. Our analytics run on Google's platform, and Google processes that data for its own purposes too. That takes it outside the exception, so we ask instead.
Changing your mind
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time, and withdrawing is as easy as giving it was. Reopen the cookie settings. Withdrawing consent does not make what happened before it unlawful.
You can also block or delete cookies in your browser's own settings. Parts of the site may behave oddly if you block everything, but nothing here needs you to accept anything in order to read it.
Who else sees your information
- Our hosting. The site is operated on infrastructure provided by IONOS SE in Germany. Skaar Media AS runs the hosting itself; IONOS supplies the server.
- Google. Google Analytics 4 for measurement, and Google's advertising and consent management services for the advertising on this site. These run only after you have agreed to them.
- Nobody else. We do not pass information about readers to councils, parking operators, claims companies or anyone offering to appeal your ticket for a fee.
Information leaving the United Kingdom
Google may process the data described above outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. Where that happens, the transfer relies on the safeguards Google puts in place for UK personal data — the UK International Data Transfer Addendum to the standard contractual clauses, or an adequacy decision where one covers the destination. You can ask us for details of the safeguards relied on.
Skaar Media AS is in Norway, which is covered by the United Kingdom's adequacy regulations for the European Economic Area, so information reaching us is not an unprotected transfer.
How long we keep things
- Server logs: kept only as long as they are useful for security and fault-finding, and then deleted.
- Your cookie choice: until it expires or you clear it.
- Analytics: for the retention period set in Google Analytics, after which Google deletes it.
- Contact form messages: kept while we deal with your message and for as long as we may reasonably need it afterwards, then deleted. The hashed IP entry used for rate limiting is short-lived.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR you have the right to:
- ask what personal data we hold about you, and get a copy of it;
- have inaccurate data corrected;
- have data erased;
- restrict how we use it;
- object to processing we carry out on the basis of legitimate interests;
- receive data you gave us in a portable form; and
- withdraw any consent you have given, at any time.
Write to info@parkingcharges.co.uk and we will answer. Exercising any of these rights is free.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom's data protection authority, at ico.org.uk. You do not have to raise it with us first, though we would rather you did.
Automated decisions, and children
Nothing on this site makes an automated decision about you, and there is no profiling that produces legal effects.
This site is written for adults dealing with parking notices and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information about children.
Changes to this policy
If what we do with information changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top changes too. The sections above about analytics and advertising appear only while those services are actually switched on, so this page cannot describe something the site is no longer doing.