Privacy Policy

How we collect, use, and protect your information in line with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Last updated: 1 April 2026

1. Who We Are

This Privacy Policy applies to planningportalfeecalculator.com (the "Website"), a free online resource providing planning application fee guidance for England. For the purposes of UK data protection law, the data controller is the operator of planningportalfeecalculator.com.

If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at planningportalfeecalculator@gmail.com.

2. What Information We Collect

We collect the minimum amount of personal data necessary to operate this website. This may include:

Usage data — information automatically collected when you visit the website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, pages visited, and time spent on the site. This is collected via analytics tools (see Section 5).
Contact information — if you contact us by email, we will receive your name (if provided), email address, and the content of your message.
Calculator inputs — the selections and values you enter into our planning fee calculator are processed locally in your browser and are not transmitted to or stored on our servers.

We do not collect any special category personal data (such as health data, ethnicity, or financial information), and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and improve the website and planning fee calculator tool.
To respond to enquiries or messages sent to us via email.
To understand how visitors use the website in order to improve its content and functionality.
To comply with any applicable legal obligations.

We will never sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:

Legitimate interests — for analytics and website improvement, where our interest in understanding how the site is used does not override your rights and freedoms.
Contract / pre-contractual steps — to respond to your enquiries when you contact us.
Legal obligation — where we are required to process data to comply with applicable law.

5. Cookies and Analytics

This website is hosted on Blogger, a platform operated by Google. Blogger may use cookies and collect certain usage data automatically. Additionally, we may use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with the website. Google Analytics collects anonymised data such as page views, session duration, and device type.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some parts of this website.

For more information about how Google uses data collected through its services, please visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

6. Third-Party Services

This website is hosted on Blogger (Google LLC). By using this website, your data may be subject to Google's own Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review Google's Privacy Policy at policies.google.com/privacy.

We may include links to third-party websites such as the official Planning Portal (planningportal.co.uk) and government resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites and encourage you to review their privacy policies independently.

7. Data Retention

If you contact us by email, we will retain your message and contact details for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry and for a reasonable period thereafter, unless you request earlier deletion. Anonymised analytics data may be retained for longer periods for the purposes of website improvement.

8. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Right of access — to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification — to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
Right to erasure — to request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to restrict processing — to request that we limit how we use your data.
Right to object — to object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Right to data portability — to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at planningportalfeecalculator@gmail.com. We will respond to all legitimate requests within one calendar month.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) — the UK's data protection regulator — at ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113.

9. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect any personal data we hold from unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of data transmitted to or from this website.

10. Children's Privacy

This website is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us so we can delete it promptly.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page with a revised "last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please visit our Contact page or email us directly at planningportalfeecalculator@gmail.com. You may also wish to read our Disclaimer and our About page for more information about this website.

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