Privacy policy

This policy replaces the former cookie policy. Last updated: 4 October 2026.

Who is responsible

This site is run by Donald Coleman. You can reach him by email at contact@doncoleman.ca or through the contact form.

Cookies and browser storage

This site sets no cookies, including through its visitor statistics. The only thing kept in your browser is your theme choice (light or dark). It stays in local storage on your device and is never sent to this site. You can remove it at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings.

Visitor statistics

The main site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies and does not track individuals. It counts page views and where visits come from, without identifying anyone. Preview versions of the site do not use it.

Hosting

Cloudflare serves the pages of this site. To do that, Cloudflare processes standard request information, such as your IP address.

The contact form

The contact form collects only what you type into it: your name, your email address, an optional organization, your message and, if you arrived from a project page, the name of that project. It is used to reply to you and for nothing else. It is never sold, rented or shared with anyone for marketing.

Your IP address is used only to limit repeat sending. It is not stored as it is: only a one-way, salted fingerprint of it is kept, and that fingerprint is removed after about two days. No email or other notification is sent when you submit the form.

Messages are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database in Western North America. Cloudflare places the database as close to that region as it can, and it cannot be limited to Canada. Messages are deleted automatically 12 months after they arrive, whether they have been read or not.

Questions about a post

Each writing post has a button that gives you a few questions to think about before you read it. When you press it, this site asks an AI model on Cloudflare Workers AI to write the questions. Only the public text of the post itself is sent to the model. Nothing about you is sent, and this site stores no information about you for this feature: no cookies, no account and no record of who asked.

The questions for each version of a post are kept in the site’s Cloudflare D1 database so the next reader gets them without another request to the model. The database also holds one site-wide counter of how many sets of questions were written, which is how the site stays within its daily limit. A post’s saved questions are replaced when the post changes.

Cloudflare, as the host of this site, handles every request, including your IP address, in its own platform logs and security systems. Those are outside this site’s control and this site does not read them. The questions feature collects no personal data.

Spam protection

Sending the contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from automated submissions. It loads when you start filling in the form and receives your IP address and the browser and device signals its own script collects, plus a one-time token. No form field is sent to it. It sets no tracking cookies. Read Cloudflare’s Turnstile privacy addendum for how Cloudflare handles that information.

Security

Every page and every form submission travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Your IP address is never stored as it is, as described under the contact form above.

Your choices

You can ask what this site holds about you, and you can ask for your contact message to be deleted. Send a new message through the contact form or email contact@doncoleman.ca. I answer by hand within 30 days. Ticking the consent box on the form is your agreement to this use. You can withdraw it at any time by asking for your message to be deleted.

Deleting a message removes it from the store at once. Cloudflare’s database recovery history (Time Travel, 7 days on the plan this site uses) keeps a copy for up to 7 more days before it is gone.

If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can also contact your local data protection authority.

Children

This site is not meant for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information about them.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. The date at the top of the page shows when it last changed.