Privacy

01Reading this site

Nothing about you is collected by the page itself. That is a measured statement rather than a promise: loaded end to end, this site sets no cookies and requests nothing from any other company's servers. It writes exactly one thing to your browser, and only if you ask it to — the light or dark setting, described in the next section.

• No analytics, on this site or anywhere it is embedded.
• No advertising, no remarketing, no tracking pixels.
• No social media widgets, embedded videos or comment systems.
• No fonts loaded from Google or anyone else — the typefaces are served from this site's own domain.
• No cookie banner, because there are no cookies to ask you about.

The booking calendar is the one part of the page that fetches anything while you read, and it fetches it from this site, not from the calendar company. Their servers are asked once for the available times and the answer is shared by everyone who visits, so your browser is never introduced to them and your IP address never reaches them. That was a deliberate build decision, not a side effect.

02The one thing this site stores

There is a light/dark control in the footer. If you choose Light or Dark, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage under a single name, cottam-theme, so the page you asked for is the page you get next time. If you leave it on System — where everyone starts — nothing is saved at all, and switching back to System deletes what was there.

It never leaves your browser. It is not a cookie, so it is never attached to a request and no server of ours ever receives it. Nothing else on the page can read it, because nothing else on the page comes from anyone else. And it identifies nobody: the whole of it is the word light or the word dark. Clearing this site's data removes it and the page goes back to following your operating system.

03What the host can see

This site runs on Cloudflare. Like every web host, Cloudflare records the technical details of each request — the IP address it came from, the browser's user-agent string, the page requested and the time — and uses them to deliver the site and to block attacks. Those records exist whether or not anyone at cottam.design ever looks at them, and in practice nobody does; there is no dashboard, report or export built on top of them.

This is the one thing on this page you cannot opt out of by declining something, because it is how the web works: a server cannot send you a page without knowing where to send it.

04If you book a call

The booking button takes you to Cal.com, which is a different company on a different domain. What you type there — your name, your email address, your time zone and anything you write in the notes — is collected by Cal.com and passed on to us so we can meet you. Calls are held on Google Meet, so Google handles the call itself.

We use those details to run the call and to reply to you afterwards. Nothing else. They are not added to a mailing list, because there is no mailing list.

05If you start a subscription

Payments are taken by Stripe on Stripe's own pages. Your card number never touches this site and is never seen by us — what comes back is the last four digits, the card type, your name, your email address and your billing country, which is what any business needs to issue a receipt and answer a billing question.

Stripe also handles the page where you manage, pause or cancel your subscription. It signs you in by emailing you a one-time link, so there is no account on this site, no password for us to store, and nothing here for anyone to breach.

06If you email us

Mail to hello@cottam.design is forwarded by our domain registrar, Porkbun, to a mailbox we read. Whatever you send — and whatever we send back — sits in that mailbox until it is deleted. We keep correspondence for as long as it is useful to the working relationship and a reasonable period after it, and you are welcome to ask us to delete yours.

07The companies involved

These are every third party that handles anything about you, what each one is for, and where their own privacy terms are. There are no others.

Nothing about you is sold, rented or shared for advertising. There is no arrangement under which that could happen, and there never has been.

08Your rights over your information

Depending on where you live — Utah, California and Colorado among US states, and anywhere in the UK or European Economic Area — you have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to receive a copy. Some of those rights also apply to what Stripe and Cal.com hold, and those companies have their own request processes linked above.

Email hello@cottam.design and say what you want. We will answer within 30 days, we will not charge you, and we will not make the service worse for you because you asked.

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, so there is no opt-out to offer you and nothing for a Global Privacy Control signal to switch off. It is already off.

09Children

This is a business-to-business service and it is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has sent us something, email us and it will be deleted.

10Changes to this page

If what we do changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. There is no mailing list to notify, so the date is the honest signal — if it has not moved, nothing has.