Privacy
Privacy policy
Very little is collected, and none of it about you personally.
Last updated: July 2026
This website is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages. It sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics, and carries no advertising trackers. A few features do reach out to other companies on your behalf — comments, video, the contact form — and each of them is named below.
Who is responsible
This site, and anything you send through it, are the responsibility of Nell Watson (Nell Watson Ltd), 11 Kingfisher Business Park, Arthur Street, Lakeside, Redditch B98 8LG, United Kingdom.
Hosting
Pages are served by GitHub Pages, which may log standard technical request data (such as IP addresses) for security and operational purposes; see GitHub’s privacy statement.
Contact form
If you use the contact form, the details you submit are processed by Formspree and delivered to us so we can respond. We do not use those details for marketing. Enquiries are kept only as long as they are useful for answering you and for any follow-up, and are then deleted. To see, correct, or delete anything you have sent us, write via the contact page and say so.
Comments
New comments under essays are handled by giscus, which stores them as GitHub Discussions in a public repository rather than on this site. Opening the comments on an essay loads a script and an embedded frame from giscus.app, which necessarily discloses your IP address and browser details to giscus and to GitHub. Signing in to leave a comment is an action on your own GitHub account, governed by GitHub’s privacy statement; we never see your GitHub credentials. Older comments carried over from the previous version of this site are plain text served from here, with no third party involved.
Embedded media
Talks and interviews appear first as still images served from this site. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play; at that point a player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, and Google’s practices apply to it. Talks hosted elsewhere — Vimeo, TED, and the like — open on those sites directly.
Local preferences
A few of your choices are remembered in your browser’s local storage: whether you prefer the light or dark theme, whether the playground games make sounds, and any working notes a game invites you to keep. These stay on your device, are never sent to us, and disappear when you clear this site’s data.
External links
Linked sites — booksellers, social platforms, press outlets, YouTube, Google Drive, Wikiwand and others — have their own privacy practices, which we do not control.
Questions
Contact us via the contact page.
For the Beddy Butler app, see its dedicated privacy policy.