Privacy

This page explains what rfconsult.uk records about visitors, what stays in your own browser, and what happens to details you send me.

The site is run by Dr Peter King. Some tools and features were developed under client contract and remain available only to those clients. For anything on this page, contact info@rfconsult.uk.

The short version

No accounts, no cookies, no advertising, no third-party analytics or tracking scripts, and nothing sold or shared for marketing. The web server keeps standard access logs, and that is the only record made of an ordinary visit.

Server logs

Like every web server, mine records each request: your IP address, the page requested, the date and time, the referring page and your browser’s user-agent string. My hosting provider produces aggregate visitor statistics from these logs using AWStats, which reads the log files on the server. No script runs in your browser to do this, no cookie is set, and nothing follows you to other websites.

I use these logs and the resulting statistics to keep the site working, to see which tools are worth developing, and to investigate abuse such as excessive automated requests. The logs are held by my hosting provider and rotated in the normal course of their operation; I do not keep separate long-term copies. An IP address counts as personal data, so the lawful basis is my legitimate interest in running and protecting the site.

Cookies and browser storage

The site sets no cookies and loads no third-party scripts.

Some apps use your browser’s own local storage to hold things you have asked them to hold — for example, settings for a tool or, where applicable, a client-access entitlement. Settings stored there stay on your device. A client-access entitlement may be sent to the server when a restricted feature needs to verify access; it is used only for that check. You can clear local storage at any time through your browser. Nothing is stored there for analytics or advertising.

Using the apps

The tools are designed to work in your browser. Models, measurement files, S-parameter files and IQ recordings that you open in an app are read locally and are not uploaded to me.

A few apps do send calculation inputs to the server, because the heavier numerical work runs there. Those inputs are used to compute your result and return it. They are not used for any other purpose, and I do not build a record of what individual users have calculated.

Client access and enquiries

Some tools and features were developed under client contract and are restricted to the clients for whom they were developed. I do not sell separate licences for access. Where client access is enabled, I may hold the authorised user’s name, email address, organisation and the entitlement needed to recognise permitted access. Those details are used only to provide and verify access to the relevant features.

Where processing is necessary to perform a contract with you personally, the lawful basis is contract. Where access is provided to staff or other authorised users of a client organisation, the lawful basis is my legitimate interest in delivering and protecting the contracted service. When a restricted feature verifies a client entitlement, that request is logged in the same way as any other server request.

Selected client-developed tools may also be made available, with permission, to radio amateurs for use at lower frequencies. That use does not require an account and does not provide me with additional personal information beyond the normal server logs, unless you contact me.

If you email me, I keep the correspondence so I can answer you and refer back to it later. I do not run a mailing list and I will not add you to one.

Links to other sites

Pages here link out to LinkedIn and various technical references. Once you follow a link, that site’s own privacy policy applies.

Your rights

You can ask what personal data I hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to my processing it. Email info@rfconsult.uk and I will respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk. I’d appreciate the chance to sort things out directly first.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling on this site, and nothing here is aimed at children.

Last updated 17 September 2026.