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Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 2025

Your privacy matters. This website is built to be useful/fun, not creepy. This policy explains what information is collected, why it’s collected, and what your rights are under the UK & EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Information Collected

When you visit this website, the following limited, non-personally-identifiable information may be collected:

• IP address (used only to derive general location such as country or city)
• Device type and operating system
• Browser type
• Pages visited and basic usage activity

This data is collected via Plausible Analytics, a privacy-focused, cookie-free analytics service.

This website also generates basic visit notifications for site monitoring. These notifications may include:

• The page accessed
• Time of access
• General location (derived from IP)

These notifications do not include names, email addresses, or any personally identifiable user data.

2. Anonymous Messages

This website includes a feature that allows users to submit anonymous messages. These messages:

• Do not require names, email addresses, or accounts
• Are intentionally anonymous
• Do not store IP addresses as part of the message data

However, an IP address may be temporarily present in standard server access logs during normal operation. These logs are used strictly for:

• Security
• Abuse prevention
• System diagnostics

No attempt is made to identify users from these logs.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

Under GDPR, data is processed based on the following lawful bases:

• Legitimate Interest – for analytics, security, site performance, abuse prevention, and visit notifications
• Consent – where required by law

No automated decision-making or profiling is performed.

4. How This Information Is Used

Collected data is used only to:

• Understand how visitors use the website
• Maintain site performance and reliability
• Monitor activity via visit notifications
• Prevent spam and abuse of anonymous messaging
• Detect security issues

This information is never used for:

• Advertising
• Marketing
• Retargeting
• Cross-site tracking
• User profiling

5. Third-Party Services

This site uses:

• Plausible Analytics – A privacy-first analytics platform that does not use cookies and does not track users across websites

Only the minimum data required for functionality is processed.

6. Cookies

This website does not use cookies for tracking, advertising, or analytics.

7. Data Sharing

Your data is:

• Not sold
• Not rented
• Not traded
• Not shared with advertisers or marketers

8. Data Retention

• Analytics data is retained only as long as reasonably necessary
• Anonymous message content is retained at the site owner's discretion
• Server access logs (which may temporarily contain IP addresses) are automatically rotated and deleted on a regular schedule

9. Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are located in the UK or EU, you have the right to:

• Access your data
• Request correction
• Request deletion
• Object to processing
• Restrict processing
• Request data portability
• Withdraw consent at any time

10. Data Controller & Contact

The data controller for this website is Riley Hutton: me@rileyhutton.com

11. Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated occasionally to reflect legal or technical changes. Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.


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