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Privacy
We collect an email address when a reader asks for the research briefing. We also use website analytics on every public page.
Subscription requests
We store the email address, a dated consent record and the source of the visit (campaign tags, the page that referred you and the page you landed on) in our private CRM. Resend may process the confirmation email. We use the address only for Glamdring Research updates. Reply to a confirmation email to request removal.
Website data
Cloudflare hosts the site. Hosting infrastructure may retain standard security and request logs.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity on all public pages. Google Analytics measures page views, traffic sources, device information and key actions, and sets _ga cookies to recognise a visit and return visits. Clarity reviews page interactions, heatmaps and session recordings so we can improve the site, and uses cookies (such as _clck and _clsk) to link your pages into one visit and recognise return visits. It records the pages you view, clicks, taps, scrolling, mouse movement, technical and device information, and key actions such as a briefing sign-up, a search or a click to the subscribe page, in both tools. We use masking, so form entries and sensitive text are not readable in Clarity recordings. We do not send subscriber email addresses to Google Analytics or Clarity.
To work out which channel brought a reader, we save the campaign tags in the address (such as utm_source and click IDs), the referring page and the landing page in your browser's local storage. We send that information with a briefing request. It is not sent to Google Analytics or Clarity.
Google and Microsoft are independent controllers. Google's Privacy Policy and Microsoft's Privacy Statement describe their use of information, including product improvement and advertising. Microsoft's terms also allow some non-personal data to support AI model development. Data may be stored in the United States. Ordinary recordings are retained for up to 30 days; some saved recordings and heatmap data may be retained longer.
Analytics control
This choice applies to this browser on this site. Turning analytics off stops Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity from loading or sending events on any page and clears their cookies. The smx_clarity_opt_out cookie remembers your choice; clearing it resets the choice.
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Contact
Reply to any briefing email with a privacy or removal request.