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Privacy policy

Last updated 27 October 2026. This policy explains how Claughtdeck handles personal information when you use claughtdeck.digital.

Who we are

Claughtdeck is the controller of personal information described here. You can write to us at 15 Manor Cl, Ivybridge PL21 9BQ, United Kingdom, email [email protected], or telephone +44 7207 167376.

The information we actually collect

• Correspondence. If you email or call us, we receive whatever you choose to send: your name, email address, telephone number, and the contents of the message. The contact form on this website does not submit data to a Claughtdeck server. It opens a draft in your own email program, addressed to us.
• Consent preference. If you use the notice at the bottom of a page, we store a small record in the local storage of your browser under the key claughtdeck_consent. It contains a status (accepted or rejected), a time, and a version number. That record stays on your device. We do not receive a copy.
• Technical logs. Like almost every site, the host that serves these pages may keep standard server logs: IP address, user agent, the page requested, and the time. We use those logs to keep the site available and to investigate abuse. We do not run our own analytics product, advertising pixels, or a mailing-list tracker.

Why we use it, and the lawful basis

• To answer you, on the basis of steps you asked us to take, or our legitimate interest in running a corrections desk.
• To remember that you have already answered the storage notice, which is a strictly practical preference stored locally.
• To protect the site and diagnose faults, on the basis of legitimate interests. Where a log is not needed, it should not be kept “just in case”.

Cookies, local storage, and third parties

We do not set advertising cookies and we do not set a first-party analytics cookie. The consent record described above is local storage, not a cookie, but it is the same kind of choice, so we ask anyway.

Pages load typefaces from fonts.bunny.net and a styling library from cdn.jsdelivr.net. Your browser therefore connects to those providers, and they may process technical data such as your IP address under their own terms. If you reject non-essential storage, we still load those resources, because the pages are styled with them. Rejection records your preference and hides the notice. It does not switch on a secret tracker, because there is not one to switch on. Acceptance does the same, with a different status in the local record.

How long we keep correspondence

Emails and notes of calls are kept for as long as the thread is active and for up to twenty-four months after the last message, unless we need a longer period to handle a legal claim or a correction dispute. Server logs are kept for the period our host sets for security, and we do not ask the host to build a long profile of readers.

Sharing

We do not sell personal information. We share it only with a service that hosts the site or carries email, when that is necessary to operate, or if the law requires a disclosure. Those providers act on instructions or as independent controllers of their own logs, depending on the service.

Transfers outside the UK

A content-delivery network or email provider may process a request on infrastructure outside the United Kingdom. Where that happens, we rely on the provider’s published transfer safeguards, such as the UK extension to the EU standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision, and we avoid sending them anything beyond what the page request or the email itself contains.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 you can ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, ask us to restrict it, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw consent. You can also ask for portability of information you provided, where the law applies that right. To exercise a right, email [email protected]. We may need to confirm you are the person the information is about.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think we have handled information badly. The ICO is at ico.org.uk, and the helpline is published on that site. We would like the chance to put a mistake right first.

Children

The journal is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has written to us, tell us and we will delete the correspondence unless we are required to keep it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is material, a short note on the page. Continued use of the site after an update is not how we collect consent for a new kind of tracking. If we ever add analytics or advertising, we will ask first and rewrite this section in plain language.