This website remembers Quentin Willson and gathers tributes from people who knew him or enjoyed his work. It is run by Quentin’s family (“we”, “us”). This page explains what personal information the site handles, why, and what you can do about it. We never sell personal information or use it for marketing.
Who to contact
Write to us at [email protected] about anything on this page, including a request to see, correct or delete information about you, or use the Write to the family form.
The website is built and managed for the family by Blake.DK. For a technical problem with the site, email [email protected]. Blake.DK looks after the server and its logs on the family’s behalf and doesn’t use visitors’ information for anything else.
Leaving a tribute
When you leave a tribute we receive:
- your name, which is published with your tribute;
- your email address, which is never published. We use it only if we need to ask you about your tribute;
- your tribute itself;
- your internet (IP) address and browser details, which are stored with the tribute to help us deal with spam and abuse.
Every tribute is read before it appears. We publish it because you asked us to, and keeping a record of tributes and who sent them is part of running the memorial.
Each tribute is checked for spam by Akismet, a service run by Automattic. Akismet receives the tribute, your name, email address, IP address and browser details, and the address of the page. Automattic’s privacy policy explains how it uses them.
When a tribute arrives, an email about it is sent to the people who look after the site. These emails are delivered by SMTP2GO, an email delivery service, and include the details above.
If you tick “Save my name and email in this browser”, your browser remembers them for next time. Our cookie policy explains how.
Writing to the family
When you use the Write to the family form, we receive your name, email address, what your message is about and the message itself. They are sent by email to the family (delivered by SMTP2GO) and are not stored on the website. Akismet checks each message for spam, as it does for tributes. To stop abuse, the site counts the messages sent from each internet address for an hour, using a scrambled form of the address.
Visitor statistics
We count visits with Umami, which runs on our own server. It uses no cookies and does not store your IP address. It records the page you looked at, the site you came from, your browser, device type and screen size, your language and your country. It also notes when a tribute is sent, a video is played, the archive is opened or a link to another site is followed. We use these figures only to understand how the site is used.
Cloudflare
Every visit passes through Cloudflare, which protects the site from attacks and delivers pages quickly. Cloudflare sees your IP address and the details of each request, as any network carrying the traffic would. If it needs to check that a visitor is a person rather than a bot, it may set a short-lived security cookie. Cloudflare’s privacy policy explains how it handles this information.
Server and security logs
Like every website, ours records each request it receives: your IP address, the time, the page and your browser details. We use these logs to keep the site working and secure, and they are deleted automatically, normally within 90 days. If an address attacks the site, our security software (CrowdSec) blocks it and may report it to the CrowdSec network, which helps other sites block it too.
Videos and links to other sites
Videos from YouTube load only when you press play. They then come from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced service, youtube-nocookie.com, and Google’s privacy policy applies to what happens there. Our other videos are stored on our own server.
Links to other websites, such as X, Instagram, the BBC or FairCharge, take you to sites with their own privacy policies.
Where your information is kept
The site runs on a server in the United Kingdom. Encrypted backups are kept with Backblaze, a cloud storage company. Cloudflare, Akismet, SMTP2GO and Backblaze may handle information outside the UK; where they do, we rely on the safeguards UK data protection law requires for such transfers.
How long we keep it
- Tributes: for as long as the memorial is online, unless you ask us to remove yours.
- Messages sent with the form: in the family’s email, for as long as they need them. Nothing is kept on the website.
- Messages caught as spam: deleted automatically after 15 days.
- Server logs: normally no more than 90 days.
- Backups: up to 12 months.
- Visitor statistics: these contain no personal information.
Your rights
You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to object to how we use it. Email us at the address above and we will reply within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection regulator.
Changes to this policy
If anything here changes, we will update this page. Last updated 26 October 2026.