Privacy
The short version: this site collects as little as it can get away with, and sells nothing to anyone.
What is stored in your browser
One thing: if you choose your Amazon store from the dropdown on a book page, that choice is
saved in your browser's local storage so you are not asked again. It is a single value like
co.uk. It never leaves your device, it is not an identifier, and clearing your
browser data removes it.
Country detection
To preselect the right Amazon store, the site asks the server which country your connection appears to come from. This is derived from your IP address by Cloudflare, which serves this site. The answer is used immediately in your browser and is not stored or logged by this site. You can override it at any time with the dropdown.
Analytics
This site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless. It records aggregate information — which pages were viewed, roughly where visitors came from, and how quickly pages loaded — without setting any cookie, without a persistent identifier, and without building a profile of you. It needs no consent and there is no way to turn it off, because there is nothing about you in it.
There are no advertising trackers, no tracking pixels, and no social media widgets anywhere on this site. Nothing here follows you around the rest of the web.
Cookies, and why there is no banner
This site sets no cookies at all. Not analytics cookies, not advertising cookies, not "essential" ones that turn out to be neither.
The only thing kept on your device is the Amazon store preference described above, and only
if you actively choose one. It is a single value like co.uk, it never leaves
your browser, and it is not an identifier — nothing can be traced back to you with it.
Storage like that does not require consent under the ePrivacy Directive, because it does
nothing except remember something you asked for.
That is why there is no cookie banner. Not an oversight, and not a gamble — there is genuinely nothing here to consent to. A banner asking permission for nothing would only train you to click through the ones that matter.
If that ever changes — if something is added that does set a cookie — a banner will appear before it runs, not after, and refusing will take exactly one click.
The monthly email
If you subscribe, this is what happens and why.
- What is stored: your email address, whether you also asked to hear about new books, and the date you confirmed. Nothing else. No name is asked for and none is needed.
- Why: to send you one educational email a month, and book announcements only if you ticked that box. It is used for nothing else.
- The legal basis: your consent, given by subscribing and then confirming. Consent can be withdrawn at any moment, and withdrawing it is one click.
- Confirmation first: subscribing sends you an email asking you to confirm. Until you click that link nothing is stored against your address. This exists so that nobody can sign you up for something using your address.
- Who else sees it: Brevo, who send the emails on my behalf and process the address only for that. Nobody else. It is never sold, rented, shared, or used to build a profile.
- How long: until you unsubscribe. There is no archive kept afterwards — unsubscribing removes the address rather than flagging it.
Every email has an unsubscribe link that works immediately, with no form to fill in and no reason required. If you would rather not click a link in an email, write to hello@edmundwarde.com and it is done the same day.
Writing to me
If you write to hello@edmundwarde.com, your message sits in an inbox like any other email. It is not added to the mailing list, not used for marketing, and not shared with anyone. Emailing me is not subscribing — those are separate, and one never turns into the other.
Amazon
Buy links take you to Amazon, which is an entirely separate company with its own privacy policy and its own cookies. What happens once you arrive there is governed by their terms, not these.
Your rights
If you are in the UK, EU, or another region with data protection law, you have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive a copy of it, and to withdraw consent you previously gave. All of those are yes, and none of them require a reason.
In practice what is held is either nothing at all, or one email address and a tick box. To ask, or to have it removed, write to hello@edmundwarde.com. I answer these myself and do not ask why.