Privacy

We take your privacy seriously. Here are the things we do with your data:

Website tracking

Like millions of other websites we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a piece of software that grabs data about our visitors (you). It’s something like an advanced server log.

What does Google Analytics record?

  • What kind of computer you’re using
  • What pages you visit
  • What website you came from to get here
  • How long you stay for

What do we do with your data?

We use a plugin ‘Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress’, and have taken all the recommended steps to fully anonymise all of the data it uses as outlined in this excellent article.

The tracking information allows us to better understand the kind of people who come to the site, what computers they are using, and what content they’re reading. This allows us to make better decisions about design and writing.

Occasionally, we will compile aggregate statistics about the number of visitors this site receives and browsers being used. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting.

All of our activity falls within the bounds of the Google Analytics Terms of Service.

How do I prevent the website tracking?

Our installation of Google Analytics supports and respects Do-Not-Track settings you might have set in your browser, if you have specified in your browser that you do not want to be tracked then we will not track you.

If you want to prevent this tracking as an anonymous user of the site you can either set your browser up to send Do-Not-Track headers, see the FirefoxSafari and Internet Explorer instructions or install the Ghostery plugin, which available for Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and which has an option to block Google Analytics.

Cookies

A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer’s hard drive from our website. Our website uses cookies to analyse website traffic only using Google Analytics. You can prevent this by following the advice above (How do I prevent tracking?).

Newsletter subscription information

We use an online service called MailChimp to send our monthly newsletter. It handles all of the data we need for this. Mailchimp is part of The EU-US data privacy shield agreement, and is fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation – you can read more in the Mailchimp Privacy Statement.

You can subscribe to the newsletter using the subscription form on our site. By completing the subscription form (and ticking the privacy policy option), we assume that you are consenting to receive email newsletters from us.

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and remove your data completely by following the unsubscribe link in every newsletter, or contact us and we will do it for you.

What we collect using the Mailchimp forms

  • Your name
  • Your email
  • Time of subscription
  • IP address

How we use the Mailchimp information

  • Send you the newsletter
  • Track newsletter ‘opens’ so we know how many people opened it
  • Track newsletter ‘clicks’ so we know what they read