Feral’s Ground

Privacy notice

This explains what happens to your information when you use Feral's Ground. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

Who is responsible

Avril Millar is the data controller, which means she decides what is collected and why. The company that operates this server acts as the data processor and only handles information on her instructions. UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply.

What is collected, and why

  • Your name and email address. So we can send you a sign-in link, and so the site knows who you are when you come back. You give us both at the front door and nothing else is asked for.
  • That you consented, when, and to what wording. Without recording which version of the wording you agreed to, we could not later show what you actually consented to.
  • A one way fingerprint of your IP address. Used only to stop the sign-in form being abused. Your real IP address is never written down, and the fingerprint cannot be turned back into it.
  • Which pages and links get used. So Avril can see what is worth more of her time. In the setting this site runs in, these records are not attached to your name or your email address.
  • Anything you write in the contact form. So she can read it and reply to you.

What is deliberately not collected

There is no Google Analytics here, no Facebook or Meta pixel, no advertising tag and no software recording your screen. Nothing on this site reports what you do to anybody else. That is a decision, not an oversight, and it is why there is no cookie banner: the only two cookies set are the ones that keep you signed in.

Why we are allowed to hold it

Your consent, which you gave by signing up after reading the notice next to the button, and which you can withdraw whenever you like. Keeping the site secure and working relies on legitimate interests, which is the lawful basis for things like blocking abuse of the sign-in form.

How long it is kept

  • Sign-in links: deleted 30 days after they are used or expire.
  • Records of pages and links used: deleted after 24 months.
  • Your membership: kept until you ask us to remove it.
  • Messages you send: kept so there is a record of the conversation, and removed on request.

Who else sees it

Only the companies needed to make the site work, and only the minimum each one needs:

  • The email company that delivers your sign-in link.
  • The mailing list company, if you are on the mailing list.
  • The hosting company that runs the server.

Your information is never sold, never rented, and never handed to advertisers. If that ever changed you would be asked first, not told afterwards.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

  • tell you what we hold about you, and give you a copy
  • correct anything that is wrong
  • delete everything that identifies you
  • stop sending you email, without deleting your account
  • stop using your information in a particular way

Ask by writing to webnxoffice@gmail.com, or through the Ask page once you are signed in. There is no charge and no form to fill in. We will respond within one month.

What deletion actually does

Everything that identifies you is destroyed: your name, your email address, and the record of your consent. What is left behind is a count, with nothing in it that could lead back to you, so the totals Avril sees do not silently change. Any sign-in link still outstanding stops working immediately.

If you are on the mailing list, say so when you write, and you will be removed from that as well. It is a separate system and it is not automatic.

Where your information is held

On servers in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. If a supplier ever needed to hold it elsewhere, it would only be somewhere with data protection the law recognises as equivalent.

If you are unhappy

Tell us first and we will try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK regulator, at ico.org.uk or on 0303 123 1113. You do not have to speak to us before going to them.

Changes

If this notice changes in a way that affects you, you will be told rather than left to notice. Last updated 12 August 2026.