Privacy

Last updated: 20 July 2026

The bottom line

Get Unspun keeps data to a minimum. There are no accounts, no sign-up, no forms, and no advertising. The one thing measured is privacy-first analytics (Google Analytics), which is on by default and can be switched off at any time. Beyond that, the only thing stored is a few settings kept inside the visitor’s own browser, and those never leave the device.

What Get Unspun does not collect

• No name, email or contact details — there is nothing to fill in.
• No accounts and no logins.
• No advertising or marketing cookies, and no ad trackers.
• Privacy-first analytics on by default (Google Analytics), which any visitor can switch off at any time.
• Nothing is ever sold or shared for marketing.

The only data involved

On-device settings. The site remembers reading progress, the light or dark theme, and the chosen reading depth using the browser’s own localStorage. This stays on the device, is never sent to Get Unspun, and identifies nobody. It can be cleared at any time through the browser’s settings. Full detail is on the cookies and on-device storage page.

Hosting logs. Get Unspun is served by Vercel, a hosting and content-delivery provider, which may automatically record technical request logs — including IP addresses — in order to deliver pages and keep the service secure. Under UK data-protection law an IP address can be personal data. These logs are generated and held by the hosting provider as part of running the infrastructure; Get Unspun does not build its own record of visitors from them, and does not use them to identify or track individuals.

Contacting Get Unspun

Emailing [email protected] means the message and the sender’s email address are received in order to reply. That correspondence is used only to respond, and is not added to any marketing list — there is none.

Analytics (on by default, easy to switch off)

Get Unspun uses one privacy-first analytics tool — Google Analytics 4, provided by Google — to understand which explainers are useful. It is on by default, and any visitor can switch it off from the notice on the first visit or the “Analytics settings” link in the footer at any time.

• What is processed. Ordinary usage data: pages viewed, approximate location (country or region, from a shortened IP address that is not stored), device and browser type, and how a visit arrives. No name, email or account — Get Unspun asks for none.
• How to stop it. Switch analytics off from the notice or the footer link; measurement stops from the next page on.
• Who processes it. Google, acting as Get Unspun’s analytics processor. Requests are routed first-party through getunspun.co.uk (via Cloudflare) rather than sent to Google’s own domains by the browser.
• How long. Event data is kept for 14 months and then deleted automatically.
• Rights. Because analytics can process data that counts as personal under UK GDPR, the usual rights — access, correction, erasure and objection — apply to it; email [email protected], or switch analytics off from the footer.

Any future personalised tool would be assessed with a documented data-protection impact assessment and designed to run entirely on the device, so that inputs never leave it.

Rights over personal data

By default, Get Unspun holds no personal data about its readers, so there is normally nothing to access, correct or delete. Once a visitor opts into analytics, the UK GDPR rights (access, correction, erasure, objection and portability) apply to that data — the quickest route is to withdraw consent from the “Analytics settings” link in the footer, which stops further measurement. Anyone with a privacy question can email [email protected]. Concerns can also be raised with the UK’s data-protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office, at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this statement

This statement will be updated whenever the site’s data position changes — most importantly, before any analytics or personalised feature goes live. The “last updated” date above will change with it.