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Privacy Policy
This site is small and collects very little. This page says exactly what it does collect, and how the automation tools behind the Chain of Thought podcast use social platform APIs.
Who this covers
This policy covers conorbronsdon.com and the software applications operated by Fernwillow LLC, a Washington limited liability company, in connection with the Chain of Thought podcast and related independent work.
Questions about anything here: hello@conorbronsdon.com.
What this website collects
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages people read. Google Analytics sets cookies and processes your IP address, browser and device information, and the pages you visit. That data goes to Google and is subject to Google's privacy policy (opens in new tab). Analytics is not loaded on preview or local development builds.
There is nothing else. Specifically:
- There are no forms on this site, so no contact details are collected here.
- The newsletter link points to Substack. If you subscribe, Substack collects your email under its own privacy policy, not this one.
- No accounts, no logins, no advertising or retargeting pixels.
- Nothing collected here is sold, rented, or shared with third parties.
You can block analytics cookies through your browser settings or a Google Analytics opt-out extension (opens in new tab). The site works normally either way.
Automation tools and social platform APIs
Fernwillow LLC operates internal software that publishes podcast and writing content to social platforms, including X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and YouTube. These tools are registered as developer applications with those platforms.
They are single-operator tools. Concretely, this means:
- They act only on accounts owned by Fernwillow LLC or Conor Bronsdon. They do not post on behalf of anyone else.
- They publish content created by Conor Bronsdon. Every post is reviewed by a human before it is published.
- They do not collect, store, process, or analyze data belonging to other users of those platforms. There is no bulk collection and no scraping.
- Platform data retrieved through an API is used only for the immediate task and is not retained beyond it.
- Nothing obtained through any platform API is sold, resold, redistributed, or licensed to anyone.
- No third-party user data is transferred to any other party, and none is used to train machine learning models.
Authorization tokens for these accounts are stored on infrastructure controlled by Fernwillow LLC, are not shared, and are revoked when no longer needed. Access can be revoked at any time from the relevant platform's account settings.
How long data is kept
Google Analytics data is retained according to the retention period configured in that property and is subject to Google's own deletion policies. Because this site collects nothing else, there is no other personal data to retain.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data relating to you, and to object to certain processing. Because this site collects no directly identifying information, requests about analytics data are usually best directed to Google. For anything else, email hello@conorbronsdon.com and it will be handled.
Children
This site is not directed at children under 13, and no data is knowingly collected from them.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the effective date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted on this page rather than made quietly.