Site Information and Privacy Policy

Advertising and Promotion

Currently this site relies on Google Adverts to pay its hosting fees. If you like the site and feel your adverts would be relevent to the area or subject, you can advertise your business here for a very economical rate.

I want to maintain the special relationship this site has with Hengistbury Head so I would like to restrict adverts to those relevent to the local area or subject matter. i.e walking, rambling, local holidays, local businesses etc.

If you are interested, email me here.

The History of this Site

As you may know this site started out, initially on some free webspace at the end of 2001. Prior to this I had gone through the ritual most parents do in helping their children mug up on the site for their Geography GCSE coursework. We found it difficult to find information, not that it did not exist, but the few books available were almost always booked out from the local libraries. However, our turn for the books came, and learn we did! I have lived here for most of my life and until the enforced fatherly duties with the coursework I am ashamed to say, my knowledge of local history was non-existent.

I only began to appreciate the many facets of Hengistbury Head after I had gone through the paternal rigours of GCSE coursework no less than four times!

I had a couple of weeks spare at the end of 2001 and decided to build a site.

Since then the website has grown both in size and popularity. The site is now visited by around 6000 unique visitors per month with almost 20,000 individual pages views per month.

The original very simple "frames" format has become ever more difficult to maintain as more and more information was added. Consequently during 2011 this site is being revamped. Although no longer using frames the concept of a fixed menu with a scrollable window is maintained.

In order to make the website pay its way I have decided to include a limited amount of advertising on the site, the majority of which will be directly related to Hengistbury Head and/or the surrounding area. However the ethos of the site, as a free educational resource for both school students and casual interested parties remains.

The site is an independant web site and is neither financed or controlled by any bodies other than me.

Copyright

Copyright Relaxation

The primary aim of this site is to provide an educational resource for both school & college students and the interested public. Consequently you are free to download and duplicate copyrighted text and images from the those parts of this site which are owned by the web site owner and on condition that downloads are used for personal or educational purposes.
Any downloads must not be used for profit, for commercial use, or for incorporation in any media that is offered 'for sale' or otherwise commissioned for payment without getting my written permission first.

The standard question I get is "Can I use some data/images in a school/college project?" The answer to that is (always) yes. It would be nice (if practicable) if you could mention the site URL near the item used. But no worries if it is too difficult to do.

Please Note: That the Satellite images are copyright Google Earth. Please see the following link for their rules (which are similar to that above) Google Earth Copyright link

Please Further Note: The above copyright relaxation on this site only applies to this site. Other sites, including those in the Useful links page have their own copyright rules and you must contact the relevent site owner about what is allowed regarding copying from their site. Copyright is important and people often get very upset when it gets broken.

Disclaimer

the Useful links page and other places thoughout this site contain hypertext links to other sites on the World Wide Web. While these links appear to be genuine and useful links on Dorset related issues, or provide access to quality world wide information on geology, the environment and the surrounding area, I have no control over their content.

Privacy Policy

This site does not collect or attempt to collect any private data. No pages are dependant on you revealing any of your own personal data and no personal data needs to be entered at any stage unless you want to send an email to the site owner. If you contact the site owner via email, then all you need is a valid email address. Any email will be regarded as private. Your email address will not be traded/sold/given to anyone else. It will only be used for a reply (if a reply is appropriate) The site will fully function if cookies are turned off or on. The site does not directly set any cookies. Google analytics and Google adsense set cookies but this is simply used to track their adverts and calculate site useage across the statistical user base.

I hope that just about clears up any privacy issues!