Privacy and cookies
This page is short because this site does very little. It is a signpost: three cards and some text. There is no form, no login, no shop and no newsletter.
Who is responsible
Jonathan McHarg Consulting Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 16349817. Registered office: 6 Mellstock Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 3DP.
Anything about this page, or about your own information, to hello@mcharg.com or 01202 138435.
Cookies: none
Browsing this site sets no cookies at all on your device. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no preference cookies, no session cookie. There is nothing here that needs to remember you between clicks.
That is why there is no consent banner. A banner asking permission to do nothing would be theatre.
What I do and don't collect
- No analytics. I do not know how many of you there are or what you read.
- No tracking or advertising. Nothing here reports your visit to an ad network, a social platform or a data broker.
- No embedded video or social widgets. Those are the usual route by which a site that claims not to track you does exactly that.
- Server logs. The web server keeps ordinary access logs — IP address, page requested, time, browser — because that is how you keep a server running and spot someone attacking it. They are kept for a rolling few weeks and then overwritten, and are not combined with anything else.
The one request that leaves this server
The typefaces, Geist and Inter, are served by Google Fonts. Your browser fetches them from a Google server, which sees your IP address in the process. No cookie is set by that request and nothing identifying is sent with it.
It is a real transfer of data to a third party and it would be dishonest not to mention it. Blocking web fonts in your browser stops it, and the page still reads perfectly well.
If you email or call
I keep the correspondence so I can reply and keep a record of who approached me and about what. Enquiries that go nowhere are deleted two years after our last contact. Enquiries that become work are kept for the engagement and then six years, which is what company and tax records require.
The other two sites
it.mcharg.com and coach.mcharg.com do have enquiry forms, so they have their own fuller privacy policies covering what those collect. This page covers this site only.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask me what I hold about you and have a copy, have it corrected, have it deleted where there is no reason to keep it, restrict what I do with it, or have it handed over in a portable form. Email hello@mcharg.com and I will deal with it within one month, at no charge.
If you are not happy with how I have handled it, tell me first and give me the chance to put it right. If that does not resolve it you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
If this changes
If I ever add analytics or anything else that stores data on your device, I will ask first, properly, with a real choice and a working "no". This page will be updated before it happens rather than after.