PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy describes Visualising Data Ltd’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use this website (visualisingdata.com) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

By using this website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Why and when we collect your personal data

While using this website, you may choose to share with us (and you will be only asked for) your email address and your first name so we can send you monthly a newsletter, for as long as you remain subscribed, that will present:

• Collections of examples, articles, learning resources and news from the data viz field
• Selected public and commercial resources offered by Visualising Data, which may include but is not limited to: articles, podcasts, trainings, talks, or books

Your data is collected through ConvertKit, a third-party email signup form embedded in this website.

How we handle your personal data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the personal data we have collected about you and you can do this by contacting Andy Kirk, the editor of this website and Managing Director of Visualising Data Ltd, directly via andy@visualisingdata.com. 

Disclosure of your personal data

Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (eg. a court or a government agency).

‘Plausible’ web analytics tracking

For those website visitors who are not signed-up or signing-up for a newsletter, this website otherwise only uses strictly necessary cookies to preserve its operating functionality. Specifically, it uses Plausible.io for web analytics. This is an open source tool that does not use cookies and does not generate any persistent identifiers.

Plausible.io works by generating a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitors on a website and resets this string once per day. All the data is isolated to a single day only. There is no way to know whether a person comes back to a site on another day. There is no way to get any kind of personal data from Plausible Analytics, and it does not track individual people. All the data is in aggregate only.

Plausible.io minimises any data collection in general and whatever it does track is kept fully secured, encrypted and hosted on a server in the European Union to ensure it is being covered by the strict laws on data privacy.

You can read Plausible.io’s data policy for the full list of data it does collect to display web stats and which metrics it uses the data for.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

This privacy policy was last reviewed and updated on 20th December 2023.

Contact Us

If you have any queries or concerns about the data collected on this website, please contact Andy Kirk via andy@visualisingdata.com.