Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy was last updated on July 19th, 2026.
D Wynne Evans & Sons Funeral Directors (“we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains what personal information we collect through this website, how we use it, and your rights under UK data protection law.
Who we are
Business name: D Wynne Evans & Sons Ltd
Registered address: Chapel of Rest, Penygroes Road, Blaenau, Carmarthenshire, SA18 3BZ
Telephone: 01269 850405
Email: dwynneevans@gmail.com
We are the “data controller” for the personal information described in this policy, meaning we are responsible for deciding how and why it is used.
What data we collect
We may collect the following types of personal information:
• Contact details you provide via our contact form, email, or telephone – such as your name, email address, phone number, and the content of your message.
• Funeral and obituary information you or your family choose to share with us for the purpose of arranging a funeral or publishing an obituary or funeral notice, which may include names, dates, addresses, photographs, and details of family relationships.
• Technical information collected automatically when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, and general usage data, where cookies or similar technologies are in use.
• Information you provide regarding pre-paid funeral plans, some of which may be shared with our funeral plan partner, Golden Charter, in order to set up or administer a plan on your behalf.
We do not knowingly collect any special category data (such as health information) beyond what is necessary and voluntarily provided by families in the course of arranging a funeral.
How we use your data
We use the personal information we collect to:
• Respond to enquiries submitted through our contact form or by email.
• Arrange and carry out funeral services, in accordance with your or your family’s wishes.
• Publish obituaries and funeral notices, where explicit permission has been given by the family.
• Administer pre-paid funeral plans in partnership with Golden Charter.
• Maintain accurate business and legal records, as required by law.
• Improve our website and understand how visitors use it, where analytics or similar tools are in use
Our legal basis for processing this information is generally one or more of the following: your consent, the performance of a contract (e.g. arranging a funeral), our legitimate business interests, or compliance with a legal obligation.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to help it function correctly and, where applicable, to understand how visitors use the site.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Where non-essential cookies are used, we will seek your consent in line with UK cookie regulations (PECR).
Embedded content from other websites
Some pages on our website include embedded content, such as documents hosted on Google Drive (for example, our standardised price lists). Embedded content from third-party services may set its own cookies or collect data in line with that provider’s own privacy policy, and we encourage you to review Google’s privacy policy for further information on how they handle data.
Articles on this site may include further embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Where non-essential cookies are used, we will seek your consent in line with UK cookie regulations (PECR).
Who we share your data with
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information with:
• Golden Charter, where you have chosen to take out a pre-paid funeral plan through us.
• Third-party suppliers involved in carrying out a funeral on your behalf (such as celebrants, crematoria, cemeteries, florists, or transport providers), only as necessary to fulfil your wises.
• Regulatory or legal bodies, where we are required to do so by law.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We take care to only share what is necessary, and we expect any third party we work with to handle your information securely and appropriately.
How long we keep your data
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes it was collected for, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Funeral and financial records may be retained for a longer period in line with our legal and professional obligations as a funeral director.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:
• Ask us what personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
• Ask us to delete your information, where applicable.
•Object to or restrict how we use your information.
• Withdraw consent at any time, where we are relying on consent.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details above.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your personal information, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, along with an updated revision date.