Privacy

~ 5 min reading

This page explains what this site collects about your visit, and what it deliberately doesn’t. If anything below is unclear, email me at hello@leedurbin.co.nz or open an issue on GitHub.

Analytics

This site uses Simple Analytics to see, in aggregate, which pages get read. It’s built to collect as little as possible:

• No cookies. Simple Analytics doesn’t set any, so no cookie banner is needed.
• EU-hosted, outside the advertising-data ecosystem that most mainstream analytics tools sit inside.
• No personal data. It records that a page was viewed, not who viewed it — there’s no identifier that ties one of your visits to the next.
• Honours Do Not Track. If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, Simple Analytics drops your visit entirely rather than collecting a reduced version of it. That’s the vendor’s default, and this site writes the setting out explicitly anyway so the stance is visible in the configuration rather than merely assumed. It means the numbers I see slightly undercount real readers, which I’d rather have than override anyone’s stated preference.

A small number of named actions on this site — for example, opening the feedback email link or turning on the dyslexia-friendly font — are also sent to Simple Analytics as events, so I can tell whether specific features are actually being used. These events carry no more identifying information than a page view does.

When you send me something

Everything above happens in the background. Three things on this site let you send me something on purpose, and none of them send anything unless you choose to.

The thumbs up or down at the end of each chapter. Clicking one records a single value — up or down, plus which chapter you were on — as a Simple Analytics event, exactly like the events described above. Nothing else goes with it.

The text box that appears if you click thumbs-down. This is the one place on the site where something you have written is sent onward, so it’s worth being exact about it.

This site is a set of static files with no server behind it, which means there is nowhere on deming.leedurbin.co.nz that can receive what you type. The text is therefore passed to Web3Forms, a form-forwarding service, which delivers it to my inbox.

What this site sends with your words is the chapter you were on and whether you’d clicked thumbs-up or thumbs-down. That’s the whole of it — no name, no email address, and nothing about the rest of your reading.

One thing worth being plain about, though: like any request to any server anywhere, this one arrives at Web3Forms carrying your IP address and your browser’s user-agent string. That’s a property of how the web works rather than something this site asks for or does anything with, but Web3Forms records them alongside the submission, and their privacy policy governs what happens to them from there. It is the one place on this site where something sent to me could, in principle, be traced back to a person — so it’s worth knowing before you use it rather than after.

The box is entirely optional. If you leave it empty, nothing is sent at all, and the thumbs rating on its own never goes anywhere near it.

If that send fails for any reason, you’ll be offered an ordinary email link instead — which, unlike everything else on this page, would show me your email address. That’s your call to make at the time, and declining it costs you nothing.

The testimonial form, linked from Share Your Experience and hosted by Tally. It’s a normal form: you can see every field before you fill anything in. It only asks for your name and role if you’ve said you’re happy to be quoted, and an email address is optional and used only if I need to reply to you.

What stays on your device

Your reading preferences — light/dark theme and the dyslexia-friendly font toggle — are saved with your browser’s localStorage, not sent to me or anyone else. The same is true of your progress through the Day 3 funnel experiment, which chapters you’ve given a thumbs up or down, and a rough count of time spent reading that the site uses to decide whether to ask you for feedback at all. This data lives only in your browser and is used only to restore your preferences and progress, and to avoid asking you the same thing twice.

Your written answers. The notes and activity responses you type into the course itself — every text box across all 12 days — are saved locally the same way, as you type. As with the send-on-purpose text box described above, this site has no server behind it, so there is nowhere on deming.leedurbin.co.nz that could receive what you write here even if it wanted to: it never leaves your browser at all. That’s a genuine improvement over having no saving at all, where anything you wrote would simply be lost on refresh — but it also means the same caution applies as to everything else on this page.

Clearing your browser’s site data for this page (or using it in a private/incognito window) resets all of it — including, this time, anything you’ve written. Losing a theme preference costs you a click to reset; losing written answers costs you the writing. If that matters to you, use the “Download Your Notes” button that appears alongside each set of activities to keep your own copy.

Why any of this exists at all

This course spends a full day on the danger of managing by numbers you don’t understand, so I’m cautious about instrumenting the site that teaches it. The intent here is narrow: find out where readers get stuck or drop off, and check whether the accessibility features are actually being used — not to build a dashboard for its own sake.