How this site handles your data.

The short version: as little as possible. No ad networks, no behavioural profiling, no fingerprinting. One mainstream analytics tool to count visitors — disclosed below — and an email address only if you choose to give one. That’s the whole list.

What I collect.

If you join the dispatch: your email address, and the date you subscribed. That’s it. The list lives with the email provider that powers the dispatch (their privacy policy applies to the storage and delivery; mine applies to anything I do with the list, which is limited to writing to it).

If you just visit: standard server logs (IP, user-agent, timestamp), retained for thirty days for security and debugging. The site also loads Google Analytics 4 to count page views and see which posts people read — that’s the one third-party script on this site. GA sets cookies, sends a record of your visit to Google, and receives a truncated version of your IP. I don’t use GA’s demographics or interest reports. The site honours Do Not Track requests, so if your browser sends DNT, no GA hit is recorded. You can also block GA at the browser level with any standard content blocker (uBlock Origin, Brave shields, Safari ITP) — the site works the same with or without it. The only other cookie is the one that remembers your theme preference; it’s set in your browser and never reaches the server.

What I don’t do.

I don’t sell, rent, or trade any of it. I don’t run ad networks. I don’t load third-party trackers beyond GA. I don’t use your data to train a model. I don’t buy mailing lists.

Your rights.

You can unsubscribe from the dispatch in one click — every email has the link, and the link works. If you want me to delete any record I hold of you, email robin@motorcycleseatwisdom.com and I’ll do it within a fortnight. If you’re in a jurisdiction with specific data-rights laws (GDPR, CCPA, the Australian Privacy Act, the New Zealand Privacy Act), the same email gets the same response.

Changes.

If this policy changes in any way that matters, I’ll say so in the dispatch before the change takes effect. The version of this page in Git history is the authoritative record of what was true and when.

Last updated 2 May 2026.