Duncan Macleod
Privacy notice for the notebook
First noted
A plain-language PIPEDA-compatible notice describing the limited server logs, the absence of trackers, and the rights of visitors.
This site is an independent editorial notebook and is designed to be read without creating an account, submitting personal data, or installing any browser extension. The pages contain no advertising pixels, no social-media trackers, no third-party analytics, and no payment forms. Fonts, styles, and photographs are served from this server without any external dependency. If you are reading this page in a browser with strict privacy protections, the site will function exactly the same as it does for a less protected browser.
Like most web servers, ours logs a small amount of technical information for security and troubleshooting. A typical log entry contains the time of the request, the Internet address from which it was received, the browser and device string your browser chose to send, and the file your browser requested. We do not join these entries to a profile of you as a person and we do not sell them. The log is retained for as long as it is useful for security investigation and is then overwritten.
How some visitors found this page
Some readers arrive here after seeing a sponsored search result, an advertising placement, a shared link, or a mention in another publication. That does not create a commercial relationship between you and the notebook or between you and the operator of the tower. Advertising networks and search engines have their own privacy practices and store their own records about an advertising click. Those records belong to those networks and not to this site. A referrer value, if your browser supplies one, may appear briefly in our server log, but we do not forward it to any advertising system.
This site uses no cookies that are visible to editorial pages. The server may set a small technical cookie in rare administrative scenarios that do not touch the editorial content you are reading. If a cookie is ever used to deliver personalised editorial content on this notebook, the practice will be documented on this page in advance.
Your rights under Canadian law, and in particular under PIPEDA, include access to the personal information we hold about you, correction of inaccurate information, and the ability to challenge our handling of it. Because the notebook deliberately avoids collecting personal information, most visits leave only a short technical log entry. A specific request may require enough information to locate the relevant log line; without that, we will respond honestly to say we cannot find a record of your visit.
If you write to Duncan at the postal address published on the contact page, your letter is read, considered, and either destroyed securely or retained for the purpose for which it was supplied. Correspondence is not entered into a mailing list. There is no mailing list.
Children are welcome visitors to the notebook. The pages contain no content that requires an age gate and no account system that would store a child’s data. Adult readers who wish to screen the notebook for a child will find the editorial content free of commercial pressure.
Revisions to this notice are published here when the operator of the site changes a technical practice. The most recent revision date is noted at the bottom of the printed version of the notebook, available on request.
This notice is not legal advice and does not replace the policies of any third party whose service you used to reach this page. For a formal written policy, write to the address on the contact page and we will send a printed copy by post.
— D.M.