What this site records

Each time a page on this site is opened, one line is written down: the time, the IP address the request came from, which page it was, the site you followed a link from if there was one, and the name your browser gives for itself. That is the whole of it.

An IP address is a number your internet connection uses so that replies can find their way back to you. Every website you visit sees it, because without it there is nowhere to send the page. This one writes it down.

Nothing is stored in your browser. No cookies are set for this, no identifier is kept, and there is nothing that recognises you as the same person on a later visit beyond the address itself, which changes for most people anyway.

No analytics service, advertising network or other company is involved. Nothing about your visit is sent anywhere outside this site, and none of it is sold, shared or used to build a profile of you.

To know whether the site is being read and which parts of it are worth keeping, and to be able to see what happened when something goes wrong or when the site is being hammered by something automated. It is a one person studio and this is the whole of its analytics.

The lawful basis is legitimate interests: running and defending a website you have chosen to visit. There is no consent banner because nothing here needs consent, which is a consequence of not setting cookies rather than an opinion about the rules.

90 days. After that a day’s records are emptied automatically, by the site itself, without anybody deciding to. There is no archive and no backup of them kept elsewhere.

One person, on a page that requires a password. The records sit in storage attached to this site with the host that runs it, and nobody else is given access to them.

The contact form keeps what you type into it: your name, your email address, your message and the budget range you picked, so that there is something to reply to. That is kept until the enquiry is dealt with and for a reasonable time after, in case you come back.

Clients get a project page of their own, which holds what you would expect a project to hold: what has been agreed, what has been built, and the messages between us.

You can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and object to it being held at all. Email kris@kristiansmith.co.uk and it will be dealt with, in days rather than the month the law allows.

Deleting the visit log is a single action and it clears the lot, so asking for your own address to be removed removes everybody’s. That is not a limitation worth apologising for on a site this size.

If you are not happy with how a request is handled you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Bespoke Web Builds. Questions about any of this go to kris@kristiansmith.co.uk.