What we hold
If you signed up for the course, we hold your email address and the date you joined. That is it. No name unless you chose to give one. No location. No device fingerprint. No browsing history. No profile.
Your email address lives in MailerLite, which is the service that sends the course. MailerLite's own privacy policy governs how they handle it on their infrastructure. We chose MailerLite because it is straightforward and does not attempt to monetise your data independently of us.
If you visit the site without signing up, we hold nothing about you individually. The site uses Cloudflare's analytics, which are cookieless and collect no personal data whatsoever. We see aggregate numbers: how many people visited, roughly which countries they came from, which pages were read most. We cannot identify you from any of this, and we cannot try.
There are no tracking cookies on this site.
What we do with it
Your email address is used to send you the Everyday Statistics course. That is the entire list of uses. We do not sell it. We do not share it with third parties beyond the sending infrastructure. We do not use it to build a profile. We do not track whether you open emails, partly because it involves placing a surveillance pixel in your inbox, and partly because Apple Mail Privacy Protection has made open rates unreliable enough that we decided the pixel was not worth having.
We may, in future, use the list to tell subscribers about other things in the same vein. If that happens, it will be clearly labelled as such and easy to decline.
Your rights
You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of any email. You can ask us what data we hold about you. You can ask us to correct it. You can ask us to delete it entirely. Under UK GDPR, these are not favours.
To exercise any of them, write to admin@euterpia.co.uk. We will respond within 30 days, though in practice it will be much faster because there is very little to look up.
The legal basis for processing your email address is consent. You gave it voluntarily. You can withdraw it at any time and we will stop.
Data controller
The data controller is Euterpia Ltd, Scotland, UK. Contact: admin@euterpia.co.uk.
Since you're reading this
You clicked on a privacy notice. That already puts you ahead of most people. Since you're here, you may as well get something useful out of it.
Your browser
Chrome reports extensively to Google. It is not a neutral tool. Firefox, built by Mozilla (a non-profit), and Brave (Chromium-based, with tracking blocked by default) are better choices. Both are free. Both are faster on most sites than Chrome, because they are not loading everything Chrome loads.
Your search engine
Every search query you type into Google contributes to a profile that has been building since the first time you used it. DuckDuckGo does not build that profile. Kagi does not either - it is paid, and the absence of an advertising model is the point. Either is a workable replacement for most searches.
Tracker blocking
uBlock Origin is a browser extension that blocks most passive tracking on the web. One install. No configuration required. It is the single highest-leverage privacy action most people can take, and it makes the web noticeably faster because it stops loading the things that were watching you. Install it before you do anything else on this list.
A word about VPNs
VPNs are useful for specific things: hiding your traffic from your internet service provider, and accessing region-locked content. They are aggressively marketed as privacy tools. They are not, exactly. A VPN moves trust from your ISP to your VPN provider, and most VPN providers are less trustworthy than their advertising suggests. If you use one, understand what it actually does. It does not make you anonymous.
Tor
The Tor Browser is the real thing. It routes your traffic through a series of encrypted relays such that no single point in the chain can see both who you are and what you are looking at. It is slower than a normal browser. It is also as close to actual anonymity on the internet as most people can practically achieve. The Tor Project is a non-profit. The browser is free.
A note: this site is hosted in a way that makes it reachable over Tor. If you use the Tor Browser to visit everydaystatistics.com, your connection stays within the Tor network all the way to our servers, with no exit node. We did not have to set it up that way. We did it anyway.