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Privacy notice

This site is operated by Martin Hicks, based in Manchester, UK. I operate in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR).

Last updated: June 2026.

What this site collects

This site uses no cookies and has no contact forms, so there's no banner to click. It does run privacy-friendly analytics - Altino, self-hosted - to count visits and see which pages get read. It's cookieless and never tracks you across sites.

  • No cookies, no local storage, no fingerprinting. Nothing is saved on your device.
  • What's measured: the page visited, the referring site (domain only), your browser and device type, and an approximate location (country and city).
  • Your IP address is not stored. It's used only briefly to work out that rough location and a daily, one-way visit count, then discarded. Only aggregate totals are kept, never anything that identifies you.
  • Do Not Track is honoured. Send the signal and this site records nothing.
  • Why: legitimate interest in understanding how my own site is used. Nothing is sold or shared with third parties.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Amazon Web Services (S3 and CloudFront). AWS may log standard access information such as IP addresses, request timestamps, and user agent strings as part of normal infrastructure operation. These logs are used solely for security monitoring and are not shared with third parties. AWS data centres may be located in the US and EU.

For more information, see the AWS Privacy Notice.

External links

This site links to third-party services including GitHub, npm, and crates.io. These sites have their own privacy policies and I have no control over the data they collect.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to request access to, rectification of, or deletion of any personal data I hold about you. The analytics keep only aggregate totals and nothing that identifies you, so there's unlikely to be anything to act on - but if you have any questions, please get in touch.

Contact

For questions about this privacy notice: hello@martinhicks.dev