Privacy

Who holds your data

The data controller is Digitarise. Questions about your data, requests for a copy, and requests for deletion all go to info@digitarise.com.

You have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to its use. Those requests are answered, not acknowledged and dropped.

This site collects one piece of personal data: an email address, and only when you type it into a subscribe box yourself. There is no account to create, nothing to log in to, and no field that asks who you work for.

What is recorded when you subscribe

Your address, which page you subscribed from, and the version of the consent text you were shown. The page is recorded so it is possible to tell which work earned the signup; the consent version is recorded so what you agreed to stays answerable later. Nothing else is attached — no name, no company, no inferred profile.

Addresses are held by our email provider, not in the content database that powers this site. That database is deliberately world-readable so the datasets can be fetched by anyone, which makes it the wrong place for anyone’s address.

What subscribing consents to

The sentence shown beneath every subscribe box, currently version 2026-07-28.v1, is the whole of it:

Occasional notes on new instruments, datasets and analyses — and from time to time about future projects and offerings from Digitarise, including anything we may offer commercially. No third-party sharing. Unsubscribe any time.

Read plainly: mostly notes on new instruments, datasets and analyses, and occasionally something about future projects and offerings from Digitarise, including anything we may offer commercially. Nothing arrives on a schedule — only when there is something measured to send. If we ever want to email you about something outside that scope, we will ask again rather than assume the old consent stretches to cover it.

Superseded wording

Consent belongs to the sentence a reader was shown, so retired wordings are kept rather than overwritten. Anyone who subscribed under an earlier version is scoped to that earlier promise.

• 2026-07-19.v0 — retired 2026-07-28. “New instruments and analyses by email. Nothing else, unsubscribe any time.” Retired because "nothing else" foreclosed any future commercial contact. Contacts collected under it are scoped to that narrower promise and should be treated as such until they re-consent.

What never happens

Your address is never sold, rented, or shared with third parties, and it is never used to build an advertising profile. No email we send carries a tracking pixel, and no link in one is rewritten to record who clicked it.

Leaving

Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing removes you immediately and permanently — there is no win-back sequence, and no confirmation step designed to keep you. To have your address deleted outright rather than marked unsubscribed, say so through the corrections and requests form.

Corrections and requests

That form sends what you write directly to the editorial desk by email. An address left there is used to reply and nothing else — it is not added to any list, which is stated on the form itself because a contact form that quietly subscribes you is a dark pattern.

Measurement and audience building

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure how it is used: which pages are read, which instruments are operated, where readers arrive from. We may also use that data to build audiences and later reach people with similar interests. That is advertising technology, and it is worth naming plainly rather than describing as “improving your experience”.

Nothing is stored on your device until you agree to it. If you are reading from the EEA, the UK, Switzerland or Brazil you are asked first, and until you answer, Google Consent Mode holds analytics and advertising storage in a denied state — measurement still happens in aggregate, without cookies and without anything identifying you. Declining is one click, the same size as accepting, and it is remembered so you are not asked again.

Elsewhere, including the United States, storage is enabled by default in line with local law. If you would rather it were not, most browsers can block cookies for this site.

An honest note, since this site measures other people’s tracker load: adding this means Digitarise now carries the same Google tags it counts on the observatory pages. Of the 261 homepages measured across every sector, 163 carry them too. We are no longer an exception to the pattern we document, and the statistics pages would score this site accordingly.

The instruments themselves are unchanged. What you type into a calculator or simulator is never transmitted, and the observatory datasets are static files your browser fetches, which do not know who fetched them.