Privacy notice
How the Sleaford & North Hykeham branch of Reform UK handles your personal information on this website. Last updated 6 October 2026.
1. Who we are
This website is run by the Sleaford & North Hykeham branch of Reform UK. The data controller for personal data processed by the party — including membership, donations, volunteering and campaigning data — is Reform UK Party Limited, (Company No. 16260766; Electoral Commission Reg. No. PP7931), Millbank Tower, 21–24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP, registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under number ZB934331. The party’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at dpo@reformparty.uk. Full details are in the Reform UK privacy notice.
Branch contact: sleafordandnorthhykeham@reformuk.com
2. What this website collects
This website is designed to collect as little personal data as possible.
- No accounts or logins. There is no members’ area and we do not ask you to register.
- No forms on this site. Volunteering, donating and applying to stand all happen on Reform UK’s own secure pages (see section 4).
- Postcode finder. When you search a postcode to find your ward or county division, the lookup happens in your own browser against a built-in list of North Kesteven postcodes. We do not store or receive the postcode you enter. If a postcode is outside North Kesteven, your browser may check it with postcodes.io, a free public service run by Ideal Postcodes, to name the area.
- Website logs. Like most websites, our hosting provider may keep short-term technical logs (such as IP address and browser type) to keep the site secure and working.
- Fonts from Google. This site uses Google Fonts to display its text. When a page loads, your browser requests the font files from Google’s servers, so Google receives your IP address and basic browser details. Google states that it does not use this information to build profiles of visitors or to target advertising. See Google’s privacy policy.
- Cookies. This site does not set any cookies of its own and does not use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, so you will not see a cookie banner. If that ever changes, we will update this notice and ask for your consent first.
3. If you email us
If you email the branch at sleafordandnorthhykeham@reformuk.com or contact a councillor, candidate or committee member through this site, we use your name, contact details and message only to reply and deal with your enquiry. We may pass it to a Reform UK councillor or the party where that is needed to help you, and we will not share it with anyone else unless the law requires it.
Emails to a councillor’s official council address are handled by that council under its own privacy notice.
4. Links to Reform UK and other websites
When you choose to donate, volunteer, join or apply to stand, you leave this site for Reform UK’s own pages. Those pages have their own privacy notice, which explains how the party uses your details. Please read it before you submit anything: Reform UK privacy notice.
We also link to Facebook, X, National Grid, the Planning Inspectorate, councils and news sites. We are not responsible for how those sites handle your data.
5. Photographs
We publish photographs of branch events, campaigning, councillors and candidates on this website and on our social media. We ask permission before publishing a photo in which someone can be clearly identified, and we take extra care with photos taken at public events and on the doorstep.
If you appear in a photograph on this site and would like it removed or blurred, email sleafordandnorthhykeham@reformuk.com and we will deal with it promptly.
6. Campaigning and the electoral register
Like all political parties, Reform UK is entitled by law to a copy of the full electoral register and may use it for electoral purposes, such as sending election material and canvassing. When our volunteers speak to you on the doorstep, what you tell us about your voting intentions may be recorded to help the campaign. Information about political opinions is handled under the specific conditions allowed for registered political parties in the Data Protection Act 2018.
If you would rather not be contacted by the branch, email us and we will record your preference.
7. Our legal basis
- Legitimate interests — replying to your enquiries and keeping this website secure.
- Consent — where you have asked to hear from us, or agreed to appear in a photograph. You can withdraw consent at any time.
- Democratic engagement and legal obligations — electoral and campaigning activity, and meeting election and donation law (such as permissibility checks on donations).
8. How long we keep it
We keep enquiry emails only as long as we need them to deal with your enquiry, and then delete them. Campaign, membership and donation data is kept in line with the retention periods in the Reform UK privacy notice.
9. Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- ask us to correct anything that is wrong
- ask us to delete your data, or to stop or restrict using it
- object to our use of your data, including for campaigning
- withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent
To use any of these rights, email sleafordandnorthhykeham@reformuk.com. You can also contact Reform UK’s Data Protection Officer directly at dpo@reformparty.uk. We will respond within one month.
10. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have used your data, please contact us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.
11. Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.