Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

Dan Ryland is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. He is based in the United Kingdom and processes personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. You can contact him about anything in this policy at [email protected].

Reading the site

danryland.com is a static website. It has no user accounts, no advertising trackers and no analytics cookies, and it does not set cookies of its own.

Like almost every website, the servers that deliver it record standard technical information such as your IP address, browser type, the pages requested and the time of the request. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes this data to deliver the site securely and protect it from abuse. Dan does not receive or store this data himself.

Some pages load resources from third parties, and when your browser requests them those providers receive your IP address as part of the ordinary operation of the web: fonts from Google Fonts on every page and Cloudflare Stream video embeds on some essays. Article narration audio is hosted on this site directly. Links to X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn take you to those platforms, which have their own privacy policies.

Joining The Forge

If you join The Forge you give your email address and, optionally, your name. They are used for one purpose: sending you the weekly note. The lawful basis is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email, or by emailing Dan.

Subscriber details are stored with Resend, the email delivery service that sends The Forge. Resend processes the data on Dan's behalf and may store it outside the UK under appropriate safeguards. The signup form also contains a hidden field that only automated bots fill in; submissions that do are discarded.

Subscriber data is never sold and is not shared with anyone else for marketing.

Contacting Dan

If you email Dan, he will hold your name, email address and whatever you choose to say, together with his reply, for as long as is needed to respond to you and keep a sensible record of the conversation. The lawful basis is his legitimate interest in replying to people who write to him.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access the personal data held about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to how it is processed, and to receive a copy in a portable format. To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected]. If you are unhappy with how your data has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this policy

This page will be updated if the site's practices change. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.