This is the page where the jokes mostly stop. It says what data this site touches, what happens to it, and how to make it go away. Effective 11 July 2026.
This site is operated by the author writing as A. L. Veneer (a pen name), who is the data controller for anything collected here. For any privacy question or request, email [email protected]. A human reads it.
If you join the list, two things are stored: your email address and a short note of which channel you arrived from (for example "instagram" or "direct"), so it's possible to know which channels are worth the effort. That's the complete record.
The list is processed by Kit (kit.com, formerly ConvertKit), a U.S. email service provider, under Kit's data-processing terms, including standard contractual clauses for transfers out of the EU/EEA. The legal basis is your consent: signup is double opt-in, so nothing is sent until you confirm from your own inbox.
The address is used to deliver the Employee Handbook and occasional news — rarely more than two emails a month. It is never sold, rented, traded, or shared with anyone beyond Kit's role in sending the emails.
Every email contains an unsubscribe link. Despite the footer joke, unsubscribing is not remembered, resented, or held against you in any performance review. If you want the record fully deleted rather than just unsubscribed, email [email protected] and it will be.
The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not fingerprint or track individuals. It produces aggregate counts — visits, pages, referrers, countries — and no profiles of any person.
No cookies. No trackers. One sessionStorage entry (alv_src) remembers how you arrived so your signup can be labeled with its channel; it lives only in the browser tab, expires when the tab closes, and leaves the site only inside the signup form if you submit it.
Fonts are self-hosted. Until you submit the signup form (which goes to Kit), these pages make no third-party requests at all.
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages. Like any host, Cloudflare processes standard technical data (such as IP addresses in server logs) to deliver and protect the site.
If you're in the EU/EEA, UK, or anywhere with similar rules, you have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to withdraw consent at any time (the unsubscribe link is the fastest route). Email [email protected] to exercise any of these. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority, though it would be genuinely surprising if it came to that.
If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new date. The current version is the one you are reading.
This page has been reviewed for tone. The tone reviewer had notes. The notes were overruled.