Privacy.
What this site collects, which is very little, and what happens to it.
Almost nothing.
This site sets no cookies at all unless you press Accept. If you decline, or ignore the banner, nothing is stored in your browser and all that is counted is the page, the day and the country and town your connection comes from, which cannot identify you.
If you do accept, analytics cookies are used to count visits and see which pages people actually read, and your browser keeps a random number so the site can recognise it when you come back. If you then send an enquiry, sign up for the letter or open a link in one of Jennifer’s letters, your visits can be joined to your name, so the answer can be about what you were looking at. None of it is shared with advertisers, none of it is sold, and there is no advertising on this site of any kind.
You can change your mind at any time. The Cookie choice link at the foot of every page reopens the banner, and declining after having accepted stops the measurement immediately.
What is actually stored.
Your choice
Whether you accepted or declined, kept in your own browser so you are not asked on every page. This is the one thing stored without asking, because a record of your decision is what stops us ignoring it.
Pages and places
The page, the day, the site that sent you, and the country and town your connection comes from. The town is looked up from your internet address on this site’s own server as the page opens, using the free DB-IP database, and the address is then dropped, never written down. Only the count is kept. IP Geolocation by DB-IP.
Your visits
A random number in your browser, so one visit can be joined to the next: pages read, where you arrived from, roughly where you were. Joined to your name only if you write, sign up or open one of her letters. Seen only by Jennifer, her booking team and her management, Emberlight. Deleted thirteen months after your last visit, and on request at any time.
Analytics
Google Analytics, running in the mode that anonymises addresses. Pages viewed, roughly where in the world, roughly what device. Google is never given a name, an address or anything typed into a form.
What you send us
If you send an enquiry, it is kept for as long as it takes to answer it and to keep a record of the booking, and you are added to Jennifer’s contacts so the conversation can carry on. It is not added to any mailing list.
Other people’s players.
Some pages embed a Spotify player or a YouTube video. Those are other companies and their own rules apply once you press play on one. YouTube embeds here use the no cookie domain, so nothing is set until you actually start a video.
Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to them to fetch the typeface. No cookie is set by that request.
What you can ask for.
Under the GDPR you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and object to it being processed at all.
In practice, for a site that stores as little as this one, that usually means an email. Write to press@jenniferewbank.co.uk and it will be answered within a month, which is the limit the regulation sets.
If you are not satisfied with the answer, you have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the Netherlands that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens; in the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office.