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Privacy policy

Who and what

You are reading the privacy policy for https://theapiarist.org

I (David Evans) am the site owner. If you have a problem with any privacy issues on this site, please email me directly.

What personal data is collected and why?

The only personal data I collect and am interested in is that needed to make the newsletter subscriptions work and to count page visits to this site. Therefore, if you register as a subscriber (free) or supporter (paid) the only data I collect is:

  1. your email address
  2. your name
  3. your membership status (free or paid) and whether you have opted in to receive newsletters
  4. the date you registered
  5. the email open rate. This is the percentage of email ('newsletters') that are received and opened. I need to know which posts are popular and determine if I am sending emails which are never opened
  6. the country you signed up from

Items 1 and 2 are provided by you if/when you register. Items 3 and 4 are recorded by Ghost during registration. Items 5 and 6 are determined from your visits to the site.

If you email me, I record the email address you provide. If I didn't, how would I reply?

What do I do with this personal data?

Other than use it to ensure the functionality of the site, nothing.

I do not share or sell any of your personal data, either individually attributable or cumulatively.

This site carries no advertising and there are no affiliate links. There is no sponsorship.

Site visitors, whether subscribers or not, have the option to support my writing by 'Buying me a coffee' via embedded links on the site. The privacy policy of Buy me a coffee can be viewed here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/privacy-policy.

Analytics

I use Goatcounter to count visitors. Goatcounter uses no cookies and collects no personal data. Goatcounter does not track you from site to site. Goatcounter records page views, country of origin, operating system, screen size and browser type. All this data is cumulative and cannot be attributed to individual visitors.

Ghost

This site runs on Ghost. You can see Ghost's privacy policy here: https://ghost.org/privacy/.

Comments

Many posts have a comments section at the end. I use a third party commenting system (FastComments). Only signed in subscribers (free) and supporters (paid) can read or leave comments. Your email and name are automagically used to log you into the commenting system. You should read the FastComments Privacy Policy if needed.

I reserve the right to edit or delete comments that are inappropriate, contain personal information, or are otherwise unsuitable. Any that contain advertising or are obviously generated with ChatGPT will be deleted.

All comments are moderated before they appear online. If you edit a comment after publication, it will join the queue to be moderated again.

Stripe

Supporter payments are handled by Stripe. Stripe uses cookies and its cookie policy is here: https://stripe.com/gb/legal/cookies-policy. Paid supporter might also want to view Stripe's Privacy policy, https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.

Embedded media

Posts on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.).

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visit the other website directly.

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

I cannot control this, but do my best to minimise this type of embedded content.

How long do I keep your data?

If you leave a comment here, the comment is retained indefinitely, even if you stop being a subscriber or supporter.

If you register as a subscriber or supporter, I store your name, email address and the other data mentioned in the list above (items 1 to 6) as a user profile.

You can unsubscribe at any time. All emails and newsletters carry a link to unsubscribe.

When you stop being a registered user, the user profile is deleted and cannot be recovered.

What rights do you have over the data?

The only data recorded is what is listed above. If you want to check, I'm happy to send you a copy of what is on file. You can also request that I erase your data at any point. Doing so will unsubscribe you.

That's it.