Privacy Policy

Care for some cookies?

This website uses cookies to help me optimize your user experience. When you accept cookies, your browsing data (e.g., pages you view, buttons you click) is aggregated with other users’ data to provide me with site usage stats. Your browser will also remember that you visited my site and will load pages faster or auto-suggest fills for textboxes.

If you leave a comment on the site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience only 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 the home page, the site 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.

If you don’t like cookies, you don’t have to accept them. I respect your choices.

Leaving Comments

If you leave a comment on a blog post, the site collects the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. (This probably sounds scarier than it is. I doubt I will look at this data, ever.)

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 at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public next to your comment. Make sure it’s a picture you like.

Uploading Media

If you should happen to upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Otherwise, other visitors can download this data from your images, and that’s a bit worrying.

Browsing content from other websites

Posts and pages on this site may include embedded content from other sites (like Canva, YouTube, and Printify), such as videos, images and articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who I share your data with

If I have to do something like send you an email or process a payment you submitted, your data may be shared with the email server or payment processor to complete the action. Any comments you leave may be checked through an automated spam detection service. I may also have to share your data if the feds request it as part of an investigation, even if I know you’re innocent. Otherwise, I won’t share your data with anyone or sell it to greedy companies. That’s just icky.

How long I retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so any follow-up comments can be approved automatically instead of sitting in a moderation queue. No one enjoys moderation queues.

I don’t think users have the ability to register with my site, but if they did, the personal information they provide in their user profile would also be stored. These users would be able to see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for changing their username. Website administrators (I suppose that’s me!) would also be able to see and edit that information. But I’d much rather be writing.

Your rights

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that I erase that data. (It will likely require several minutes of poking around and a phone call to GoDaddy to find it, but I assume it can be done.) This does not include any data I’m obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Thanks for visiting!