Privacy policy.
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 13 July 2026.
Who runs this
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.
The mailing list
If you join the list, the record starts with two things you provide: 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.
On top of that, Kit — the service that runs the list — automatically logs the IP address your signup and email opens come from, and derives an approximate location from it: city, region, and country, no more precise than that, and often just your internet provider's nearest hub. Nobody asks for this or types it in; it is inferred from the connection, and it's used only for security, deliverability, and a rough sense of where readers are. It cannot pin down a street, a home, or a person.
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 for the emails is your consent: signup is double opt-in, so nothing is sent until you confirm from your own inbox. The technical data Kit records automatically — the IP address and the approximate location taken from it — rests instead on the legitimate interest of Kit and the author in keeping the list secure, delivered, and roughly understood; you can object to it at any time via [email protected].
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.
Analytics
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.
On your device
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.
Hosting
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.
Your rights
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.
Changes
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.