The short version. This website doesn’t track you, show adverts or sell anything about you. If you email me, I use your message to reply. Springbind and Fablefork, which used to be tested here, are now apps made by my company, CHAG UK Ltd, with their own websites and privacy policies.
Who I am
This website, scottgough.com, is run by me, Scott Gough, in Swindon, England. I’m responsible for the personal information described here (in data protection terms, I’m the “controller”). You can contact me about anything in this policy at hello@scottgough.com.
Visiting this website
There are no analytics, tracking cookies or adverts on this site. I don’t build a picture of who visits or what they read.
The site is hosted by Cloudflare. To deliver pages to you and protect the site from attacks, Cloudflare processes technical information such as your IP address, the type of browser you use and the pages you request. Cloudflare does this on my behalf, under its data processing terms.
The fonts on this site are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google, which receives your IP address. Google’s privacy policy covers that.
Links to other websites, such as Amazon, Goodreads or social media, take you to sites with their own privacy policies. Nothing is shared with them unless you click through.
Emailing me
If you email me, I’ll receive your email address, your name if you include it and whatever you write. I use it only to reply to you. My reason for using it (my “lawful basis”) is my legitimate interest in replying to people who contact me. I keep emails for as long as we’re in touch, and delete them within two years of our last contact unless you ask me to delete them sooner.
The Springbind and Fablefork betas
Springbind and Fablefork were both tested on this website. Those betas have now closed. The stories testers saved here were moved to Springbind’s own service, and everything stored for the betas on this website, including saved stories, sign-ins and requests to join, has been deleted.
Both are now apps made by my company, CHAG UK Ltd. Springbind’s privacy policy is at springbind.com/privacy, and Fablefork’s is at playfablefork.com/privacy. Old links to the betas on this website now take you to their new homes.
Who else handles your information
I use a small number of services to run this site. Each one only handles what it needs to.
- Cloudflare, for hosting this website.
- Google, for the fonts on this site.
- My email provider, for emails you send me.
Some of these companies may process information outside the UK. Where they do, they’re required to protect it with safeguards approved under UK data protection law, such as the UK’s International Data Transfer Addendum. I never sell your information or use it for advertising.
Keeping it secure
Everything travels over an encrypted connection.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- see the personal information I hold about you and get a copy of it
- correct anything that’s wrong
- have it deleted, which is your “right to be forgotten”
- restrict or object to how I use it
- take it with you in a format you can use elsewhere
- withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting anything that was done before you withdrew it
I don’t make any automated decisions about you.
To use any of these rights, email hello@scottgough.com. It’s free, and I’ll reply within one month. To protect your information, I may ask you to confirm who you are. For Springbind or Fablefork, please use the contact details in their own privacy policies.
Complaints
If you’re unhappy with how I’ve handled your information, please tell me first and I’ll do my best to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK’s data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this policy
If I change how I handle your information, I’ll update this page and the date at the top.