Fortyclear covers Fortyclear. This page describes the information handled when you read fortyclear.com and the control you have over it.

Exercising Your Rights

Your rights depend on your jurisdiction, but broadly: access, correction, erasure, portability, objection, and opt-out of sale or sharing for targeted advertising. UK/EU readers hold these under GDPR; readers in California and other US states hold equivalents under CCPA/CPRA and comparable laws. A Global Privacy Control signal is treated as a valid opt-out. Further detail: State Privacy Notice and Do Not Sell or Share.

Children Under 13

Readers are assumed to be adults. We neither target nor knowingly collect information from children below 13, or below 16 in jurisdictions setting that limit; such information is deleted if found.

Signing Up for Email

The newsletter is confirmed opt-in: you enter an address, we email to check it was really you, and only then are you added. Every message we send carries a one-click unsubscribe and our postal address. Leaving is immediate and permanent.

Information Received

This site may collect technical visit data (IP address, device and browser identifiers, referrer, pages and times) and, separately, information you supply directly: subscription email addresses, comment names and addresses, and anything written in a message to us.

• Worth saying outright, since it is the question we get asked: we ask readers not to send us sensitive personal details, and we delete rather than retain anything of that kind that reaches us unprompted.

Cookie Use

For anything cookie-related, our Cookie Policy is the document that applies.

• Where advertising is served, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.

Purposes

Purposes are limited to running and improving fortyclear.com, measuring traffic in aggregate, delivering email that has been opted into, and supporting any advertising displayed on the site.

Outside Processors

Providers in the chain include the host that serves fortyclear.com, any analytics tool we run, the mailing platform, and ad networks where advertising appears. Where those parties set their own purposes they are independent controllers, and you should read their notices as well as this one.

Security and Retention

We hold data only as long as the purpose requires. Subscriber records end at unsubscribe; comments end at deletion; analytics follow the retention window of whichever provider is in use. Safeguards include access control and transport encryption. We cannot guarantee absolute security, and we do not claim to.

Contact Us

Contact us at hello@fortyclear.com — that is the address for any privacy matter.

Last reviewed: July 2026