Privacy

Last updated 18 August 2026

This is my own small consulting site. It carries no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no cross-site tracking, and it sets no cookies. What follows is the whole of what it records, why it records it, how long it keeps it, and how to have it removed.

Nothing is stored on your device

No cookies, no local storage, no fingerprinting. That is why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner: consent banners exist because of what sites put on your device, and this site puts nothing there. The typefaces are served from this site's own server rather than fetched from a font service, so viewing a page here does not quietly send a request to anyone else.

If you send me an enquiry

The contact and speaking enquiry forms ask for your name, email address, organisation, role, and a description of your situation, along with a timeframe for speaking enquiries. That is used for one thing: so I can read it and reply.

Your enquiry is delivered to me as email through Resend, an email delivery service acting on my instructions. It is not written to a database on this site, not added to a mailing list, and not passed to anyone else. It stays in my mail as our correspondence, and I will delete it on request. The basis for handling it is your own request to be contacted, together with my legitimate interest in running a consulting practice.

What the server records as you browse

The server writes a log line for each of the following:

• each page you view;
• each link you follow away from this site;
• when a form was submitted with something missing, only which fields were at fault, never what you typed into them;
• when a speaking enquiry was started;
• how far you read through a long page, at a quarter, a half, three quarters, and the end, together with how long you had been on the page and how long it was expected to take to read.

Alongside each line, as any web server records: the network address your request came from, the identifying string your browser sends about itself, and the page that referred you. A network address counts as personal data, so this is a record about a person, not only about a page.

I record it to know which writing is worth continuing, which pages are hard to find, where forms trip people up, and to recognise abuse of the contact form. The basis is legitimate interest. It is not used to build a profile of you, not combined with information from any other site, not shared, and never sold. There is no account, no session and no identifier that follows you between visits.

How long it is kept

Log entries are kept for 30 days and then deleted. 30 days is long enough to answer whether an article is being read and to look into misuse of the form, and short enough to be a fair exchange for recording it at all.

If you would rather not be counted

If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, none of the browsing records above are made, nothing is reported and nothing is written, beyond the ordinary request line any web server writes. Do Not Track is deprecated and most sites ignore it. This one honours it.

Asking what is held, or having it removed

You are entitled to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, and to object to it being recorded at all. Write to [email protected] and I will answer personally. Nothing recorded as you browse carries your name, so tell me the network address you browsed from and roughly when, and I will find it.

Changes to this notice

If what the site records changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top will say so.