Privacy policy

Before launch. This policy describes the site exactly as it is configured today. If you add analytics, embedded video, a mailing-list provider or any other third-party service, update the matching section below at the same time.

Who runs this site

This website is published by Joe Hartwell, an author based in Northamptonshire, England. It exists to describe his books and to let readers get in touch.

Enquiries about this policy, including requests to see or delete information held about you, can be sent through the contact form.

What this site collects

Nothing is collected simply because you visited. There is no tracking pixel, no advertising network, no fingerprinting and no profile built about you. Information reaches this site only when you deliberately submit it.

• The contact form, when you send a message.
• The newsletter form, when you sign up.
• Ordinary web server logs kept by the hosting provider, which record IP addresses and requested pages for security and diagnostics.

The contact form

The contact form asks for your name, email address, the kind of enquiry, a subject and your message. That information is used for one purpose: to read and answer your enquiry.

Submissions are sent by email to the site owner and a copy is written to a log file on the server so that nothing is lost if email delivery fails. The form is protected by a security token and simple anti-spam measures; these do not profile you.

Your message is never sold, never passed to a marketing service, and never used to add you to a mailing list.

The newsletter

If you sign up for news, your email address is stored so that you can be sent occasional updates about All God’s Kids and Joe’s other writing. Nothing else is stored, and your address is not shared.

No third-party mailing-list provider is currently connected. Addresses are held on this website’s own server until one is chosen, at which point this section will be updated to name it.

You can ask to be removed at any time through the contact form, and the request will be actioned without being questioned.

Cookies

This site sets one cookie, and only when you interact with a form. It is a session cookie used to carry the security token that protects the contact and newsletter forms from misuse, and it expires when you close your browser.

It contains no personal information and is not used to track you. Because it is strictly necessary for a feature you asked to use, no consent banner is shown, and because nothing else is set, there is nothing to consent to.

Your browser may also store a small note recording that you dismissed the purchase bar at the foot of the page. That is kept in your own browser, is cleared when you close it, and is never sent anywhere.

Analytics

No analytics service is installed. No third-party script is loaded and no visitor statistics are collected beyond the hosting provider’s own server logs.

If analytics are added later, this section will name the provider, say what it records, and the change will be reflected here before it goes live.

Third parties

Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. Google receives your IP address as part of that request. If you would rather this did not happen, the fonts can be self-hosted, see the README.

Links to booksellers and other websites are clearly marked and open in a new tab. Once you follow one, that site’s own privacy policy applies; this one does not.

How long information is kept

• Contact enquiries are kept for as long as they may be needed to deal with the matter, and then deleted.
• Newsletter addresses are kept until you ask to be removed.
• Server logs are kept for the period set by the hosting provider, typically a few weeks.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask what information is held about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to its use. Ask through the contact form and it will be dealt with promptly and free of charge.

If you are unhappy with the response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes to this policy

If the way this site works changes, this page changes with it. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.