Privacy & Data

Here is how GSTC Blog treats information about the people who read it. Happily, there is not much to report. Each page is a ready-made file, prepared before anyone visits, and we chose from the start to leave out the add-ons that usually gather data about readers.

Who looks after this

GSTC Blog is kept going by the pen-name team introduced on our About page. Privacy questions, requests and complaints can all go to letters@godsavethecream.net.

Things this site leaves out

• Visitor counters, analytics dashboards and similar measuring tools.
• Advertising of any kind, and therefore no ad cookies.
• Pixels, fingerprinting scripts and embedded "like" or "share" widgets that report back to social networks.
• Sign-ups, member areas and comment boxes.

Put simply, we have no means of building a picture of you, and no wish to.

The cookie-notice answer

On a first visit you will see a small notice with two buttons. Whichever you press, your browser files the answer away in local storage so the notice stays closed as you move between pages. That single entry holds nothing except your choice. It lives on your device, never travels to us, and disappears when you wipe this site's data in your browser settings. Our Browser Storage Notice goes into a little more detail.

Server logs at our host

A hosting company delivers the site's pages over the internet. In doing that, its systems briefly handle technical details that every browser sends along, such as the IP address making the request, when it arrived, which page it asked for and the browser version. The host uses these records to deliver pages reliably and to fend off abuse, and keeps them for a short, limited time. We do not go through them to identify readers. Our legal ground for this processing is a legitimate interest in keeping a small website safe and available.

Emails you send

When you write in, we see the sending address, whatever name you sign off with and the note itself. That information is used for one thing only: reading your message and replying to it. It never ends up on a newsletter list, is never sold and is never handed to anyone else. Once a conversation is finished, we delete it.

On our contact page you will see a short form. It sends nothing by itself; pressing the button just starts a draft in your own mail program, and you choose whether that draft ever leaves your outbox.

Other people's websites

A number of our articles point to outside websites. Whatever you do on those sites is governed by their policies, not this one, and we have no say over how they handle data.

Rights you hold

Readers covered by the GDPR, including those in the EU and UK, and readers in places with comparable laws, may ask us to:

• confirm whether we hold anything about them, and send a copy;
• fix details that are wrong;
• erase what we have;
• limit, or stop, a particular use of their data;
• hand their data over in a machine-readable form where this applies.

Because our records are so thin, most requests can be settled quickly, and always within the legal deadline. If you are unhappy with our answer, the data protection regulator where you live will hear your complaint.

Younger readers

Our guides are written with adults in mind. We do not knowingly gather details from children below the age at which they can consent online in their country.

Updates

If a future feature ever involves personal data, you will read about it here first, before it launches.

Last updated: October 2026.