This Privacy Policy explains what information CorporateWebsiteMarketing.com collects, how it is used, and what choices you have. It is written to describe what this website actually does rather than to cover every practice a website might conceivably have. Several pages on this site argue that a privacy policy describing data practices you do not have is as much of a defect as one omitting practices you do, so this policy is deliberately specific.
How this site is built
This site is static HTML. There is no content management system, no user accounts, no login, no comment system, and no server-side application processing your input. Pages, stylesheets, fonts, and images are all served from this domain. The site loads no advertising tags, no social media widgets, no embedded video players, and no chat widget.
There is one third party: a web analytics service, described below. Apart from that service, your browser makes no requests to any other company when you read a page here.
Web analytics
This site uses Statcounter, a third-party web analytics service, to understand how the site is used in aggregate — which pages are read, roughly where visitors come from, and which referring sites and searches bring people here.
When you load a page, your browser requests a small script from statcounter.com and sends a request to Statcounter's servers. That request necessarily discloses your IP address, your browser and operating system as reported in the user-agent string, the page you requested, and the referring page if your browser sent one. Statcounter may set cookies on your device in order to distinguish a returning visitor from a new one and to group page views into a visit. We see the resulting reports; we do not receive a list of individuals, and we do not attempt to identify individual visitors or to combine this data with anything else.
Statcounter is an independent company and processes this data under its own terms and privacy policy, which you should read if you want the full picture of what it collects and how long it keeps it. Statcounter also publishes a mechanism that sets a refusal cookie in your browser, which instructs it not to record your visits to sites using the service. Both are reachable from statcounter.com. You can additionally block the script with any content blocker, or disable JavaScript, and the site will continue to work normally — nothing on this site depends on analytics running.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own. The analytics service described above may set cookies on your device. You can refuse or delete cookies in your browser settings, or use Statcounter's refusal cookie, and nothing on this site will stop working.
We have not implemented a consent banner. Whether one is legally required depends on where you are and is a question we keep under review; if we conclude one is required for visitors in a given jurisdiction, we will implement it rather than argue about it. If advertising, remarketing, or any additional third-party tooling is ever added to this site, this policy will be updated before the change goes live — not after. Several pages on this site argue that a privacy policy which fails to keep pace with the tags a marketing team adds is a defect, and we intend to be held to that.
Information collected automatically by the web server
Like any web server, the hosting infrastructure for this site records standard technical information in its access logs when a page is requested. That typically includes the IP address the request came from, the date and time, the URL requested, the HTTP status returned, the referring page if your browser sent one, and the user-agent string identifying your browser and operating system. This is a normal function of serving a website and is used for security, abuse prevention, and diagnosing errors.
Server logs are retained for a limited period by the hosting provider and are not used to build a profile of you, are not combined with any other data set, and are not sold, shared, or disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes. Note that an IP address can constitute personal data in some jurisdictions, which is why it is disclosed here rather than dismissed as merely technical.
Information you choose to provide
The contact form on this site does not submit anything to this website. It composes a message in your own email application, which you then choose to send or discard. Nothing is transmitted to this server, nothing is stored here, and no record of an abandoned form exists.
If you email us, we hold that correspondence for as long as is needed to respond and to keep a reasonable record of the exchange. Correspondence relating to a consulting or expert witness engagement is retained for as long as the professional and legal obligations attaching to that engagement require. Your email address is not added to any marketing list; there is no marketing list.
Third-party links
Pages here link to search engine documentation, regulator guidance, standards bodies, published research, vendor documentation, and Wikipedia articles. Those sites have their own privacy practices, and we have no control over and take no responsibility for them. A link is not an endorsement.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or object to the processing of personal data about you, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. Given that this site holds no personal data beyond hosting logs and any correspondence you have initiated, most such requests will be answered by confirming what little exists. To make a request, email us using the address on the contact page and describe what you are asking for. We do not require you to create an account or provide additional identifying information in order to make a request.
This site does not sell personal information, does not use personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising or targeted advertising, and does not process sensitive personal information. It runs no advertising or remarketing tags. The only third-party disclosure is to the analytics service described above, and it is made for measurement rather than for advertising.
Children
This site is written for a professional audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published on this page. Because the honest maintenance problem with privacy policies is that a marketing team adds a tag and the policy silently becomes wrong, any future addition of analytics, advertising, or third-party tooling to this site will be treated as requiring a policy update before deployment rather than after.
This policy is general information about this website's practices. It is not legal advice, and it is not a template for your own site.