Privacy Statement

(a) Scope of collection. The Site offers no user accounts and no registration. Its one data entry field is the optional subscription to email updates. On subscription, the Site retains the email address supplied together with the date, time, and originating IP address of the submission, held as the record of consent. Distribution is performed by Resend, our email delivery provider, which processes the address on our instruction and for delivery alone. The subscriber list is maintained for this Site exclusively; it is not combined with the roll of any other site, and it goes neither to a buyer, nor to a renter, nor to a trading partner. Each message contains an unsubscribe link; requests may equally be sent to [email protected], and are actioned within ten days.

(b) Browser storage. Save for the measurement cookie described in clause (b-bis), no cookie is set by the Site and no value is written to local or session storage. No advertising network, tracking pixel, session-recording tool, or chat widget is loaded on any page.

(b-bis) Measurement. In addition to the aggregate measurement described at clause (c), the Site uses Google Analytics, a measurement service provided by Google LLC, to understand aggregate site usage. It is subject to the following conditions.

(i) What it sets, and what it receives. Google Analytics sets a first-party cookie containing a randomly generated identifier, by which repeat visits from the same browser are distinguished from one another. Through it the service receives, as described in Google’s own published disclosures, pseudonymous usage data: the pages requested and the times of the requests, the referring source, an approximate geographic location derived from the IP address, and technical characteristics of the browser and device. It does not receive a name, a postal address, a telephone number, or an email address, none of which the Site asks a reader for. The pages reached through an unsubscribe link are excluded from measurement altogether, so that the link’s token is never transmitted.

(ii) Advertising features are not enabled. No advertising feature of the service is in use. The Site’s configuration disables Google Signals and advertising personalisation, and operates no remarketing feature, no audience export to any advertising platform, and no user-provided-data collection feature. Data collected through the service is used to measure readership of the Site and for no advertising purpose.

(iii) No sale, and no sharing. The operator of this Site does not sell personal information, and does not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are defined under applicable state privacy laws.

(iv) Opt-out preference signals. Where a browser transmits an opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, nothing more is collected than is described here, and no personalisation follows either way. The Site behaves identically whether or not the signal is sent, because it operates nothing that such a signal would switch off.

(v) Refusing the cookie. A reader who prefers not to be counted may block or clear cookies for this Site in the browser, or use Google’s own opt-out browser add-on. Nothing is lost by doing so: every page, every dataset, and every function of the Site remains available in full, and the only measurement that then occurs is the cookieless aggregate counting described at clause (c), which runs identically for every reader and identifies no one. A request may equally be sent to [email protected].

(c) Aggregate measurement. Readership figures are produced by Cloudflare Web Analytics. The tool operates without cookies and without device fingerprinting, and reports only aggregate quantities: page views, referring sites, and country of origin. It yields no identifier capable of distinguishing one reader from another.

(d) Delivery infrastructure. Cloudflare’s content-delivery and security network serves the Site. In common with every web host, that infrastructure processes the IP address accompanying each request for the purposes of returning the requested page and mitigating abuse. Such addresses are not used to identify or profile readers.

(e) Correspondence. Where a reader writes to [email protected], the address used and the contents of the message are received by us and are used solely to respond. No mailing list is compiled from correspondence.

(f) Disclosure and sale. No personal information is sold. No personal information is shared or otherwise disclosed to third parties.

(g) Do Not Track. The Site does not monitor readers across other websites. Its behaviour is therefore identical whether or not a browser transmits a Do Not Track signal; the signal neither enables nor disables anything, because nothing of that kind operates here.

(h) Children. Children under the age of 13 are not the Site’s intended audience, and no information is knowingly collected from them.

(i) Amendment. A change to any practice described above will be published on this page, bearing a new effective date, in advance of the change taking effect.

(j) Enquiries. [email protected]