Privacy

This page explains what happens to information when you read Deckle Notes on alstadart.com or write to us. It was written for this site and is kept short on purpose.

What we collect

When you read the site, we do not run third-party analytics scripts, advertising networks or social media pixels. Our server and our network provider (Cloudflare) keep ordinary technical logs, such as the IP address, the page requested and the browser type, to keep the site working and secure. Logs are kept for a limited time and are not sold or shared for marketing.

When you click a link to a shop, the page sends a small anonymous count to our own server: the date, which box on the page held the link and which product it was, together with the country Cloudflare reports for the visit. No IP address, cookie or personal identifier is stored with that count. For a course link, the page first asks our server for the course address, and that request is the count. It only tells us which suggestions are useful.

Each page also leaves us a short reading note of its own when you close it, leave it or switch tabs. The note says which page it was, for how many seconds it was actually on your screen, how far down you scrolled, whether a search engine, an AI assistant, another site or nothing at all sent you there, and the country Cloudflare reports. It is labelled only with a random number that the open page makes up and forgets when it closes, so we can tell a return to the same page apart from a new visit. We do not store a cookie, IP address or browser details with it, and if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control the note is never sent.

If you use the letter form or email us, we keep your name, email address and message so we can read and answer it. A copy of form messages is forwarded to our editorial inbox. We do not add you to any mailing list. Ask us at any time to delete your letter and we will.

The letter form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from automated spam. Turnstile processes technical signals from your browser for that purpose only; see Cloudflare's own privacy policy for details.

Cookies

The public site sets no cookies of its own. The administration area uses one essential sign-in cookie for the editors. See the cookie page for the details, including the cookies that shops may set after you leave this site.

Affiliate links

Some links go to retailers. When you follow such a link, the retailer may set its own cookies to record that the visit came from us. Course links to Coursera and Skillshare go through the MaxBounty affiliate network, which records the referral the same way. Those cookies belong to the retailer or network and are covered by their privacy policies, not ours.

Your choices and rights

You can read the whole site without giving us any personal information. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe or state privacy laws in the United States), you may have the right to see, correct or delete personal information we hold about you. Write to easel@alstadart.com and we will answer within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the new version will appear on this page.