Privacy

This site collects one thing: your email address, and only if you type it into the newsletter form and submit it.

What happens to it

It goes to Beehiiv, the service that sends the field notes, and it is stored there. It is used to send you the newsletter. I do not sell it, rent it, or pass it to anyone else.

Every email carries an unsubscribe link. Clicking it removes you immediately, without asking me. If you would rather I deleted your address outright, email me and I will.

Analytics

This site runs Cloudflare Web Analytics. It loads one script, from cloudflareinsights.com, on every page, and it counts visits: which page you opened, which site you came from, your country, and the browser and device you used. Cloudflare is told you visited.

It sets no cookies, it does not follow you around other sites, and none of it is joined up with your email address if you subscribe. I use it to see which field notes people actually read.

What this site does not do

Beyond that one script there is nothing else. No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no heatmap, no session recording, and no embedded fonts.

Videos

The thumbnails on the video cards are hosted here, not loaded from YouTube, so nothing is sent to YouTube while you read. Press play and the video loads from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode. From that moment YouTube, and the Google services its player uses, are told you are watching. Apart from the analytics script above, it is the only request this site makes to another company, and it is the only one that waits for you to ask.

If you would rather not play it here, the "Watch on YouTube" link under each card takes you straight there, where the same applies.

This site sets no cookies of its own, which is why there is no cookie banner. Beehiiv may set its own when you interact with an email it sends, and that is covered by Beehiiv's privacy policy rather than this one.

Server logs

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which keeps standard request logs the way every web host does. I do not read them for anything beyond whether the site is up.

Links out

Some pages link to pleiadesconsultancy.com and to other companies' sites. Once you click one, that site's privacy policy applies, not this one.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or a request to be deleted, go to [email protected].