Privacy Policy

The short version

This site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics. It carries no advertising and no third-party trackers. There is no account to create, no newsletter, no chat widget, and nothing on any page that follows you to the next site you visit.

The only personal information I ever hold about you is what you choose to put in an email and send to me. Everything below is the detail behind those two paragraphs, written the way it actually works rather than in the usual language.

This policy was last reviewed on August 15, 2026.

The contact form does not send anything to this website

The form on the contact page is unusual and it is worth understanding, because it changes what happens to what you type.

It has no destination on this site. When you press the button, the page assembles what you typed into a message and hands it to whatever email application your device uses. You then see that message, in your own mail program, before anything is sent. You can edit it or delete it. Nothing you typed is transmitted to this website, stored on it, logged by it, or seen by anyone unless you send that email yourself.

If your device has no mail application set up, the button will appear to do nothing. That is why the email address is also printed on the page as plain text, so you can copy it into whatever you actually use.

Email you send me

When you email me, I have what you wrote: your name if you gave it, your email address, and whatever you chose to describe. That message sits in an ordinary email account, hosted by a commercial email provider in the same way that nearly all business email is.

I use it to answer you and, if something goes further, to do the work you asked about. I do not sell it. I do not rent it. I do not add you to a mailing list because you wrote once. I do not pass it to anyone else except where I am legally required to, or where you have asked me to send something to somebody on your behalf.

Correspondence is kept while it is useful and while any related work is live. If you want a message and the address that sent it deleted, ask, and say which one. Two honest caveats: email is not a secure channel and never has been, and a message you have already sent cannot be recalled by either of us. Send nothing confidential or privileged through a web form.

What the hosting company sees

This site is delivered by a web server run by a hosting company, and web servers keep access logs. Those logs typically record the network address the request came from, the page requested, the time, and the browser and operating system the request identified itself as. That is how every website on the internet works, including the ones whose policies imply otherwise.

I do not use those logs to build a picture of an individual visitor, and there is nothing on this site that would let me connect a log entry to a person. They exist for security and for keeping the site running. The hosting provider keeps and disposes of them under its own retention practices, which are its practices rather than mine.

Pages that link somewhere else

Some pages link out to a search engine's help documentation, a platform's published policy, a government page or a court decision. Those links are there so you can read the primary source instead of trusting a summary of it.

Once you follow one, you are on somebody else's website, under their privacy practices and their tracking, not mine. Those companies collect what they collect and this policy does not reach them. If a linked page has since changed or moved, the operator's current version is the accurate one — policies quoted here carry the date they were read, and they change without notice.

Children

This site is written for adults dealing with an adult situation and it is not directed at children. I do not knowingly collect information from a child. If a young person is the subject of what you found — which happens, and particularly with images — that changes which routes apply and it should be said in the first message, but it is a fact about the situation, not information I am gathering about them.

Your choices, in practice

Because so little is collected, most of the usual rights resolve to something simple: you can ask what I hold about you, and you can ask me to delete it. Both are done by email, and both are answered in plain words rather than a form.

You can also read every page on this site without giving anything at all. Nothing is gated, nothing asks for an address before it will show you an answer, and no page here needs to know who you are in order to tell you that a court record does not come down.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the first section changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify, which is itself a consequence of the policy.

If something here does not match what you observe on the site, tell me. A privacy policy that describes a site other than the one it is on is worse than none, and it is the most common defect in the genre.