There are no adverts, no analytics and no tracking pixels on the website, and your details are never sold to anybody. If you subscribe to the email you give an email address, and that is the only personal information this site ever asks for. The weekly email is the one exception to the tracking part, and it's explained in full below rather than buried. The calculators keep your figures on your own device and send them nowhere.
Who runs this
The Quiet Reset is a personal website written and run by one person in the UK. There is no company behind it and no team. For anything on this page, or any request about your data, the address is hello@thequietreset.uk.
If you subscribe to the weekly email
The subscription form asks for your email address. That is all it asks for, and it is the only thing stored about you.
The list is run through Kit (formerly ConvertKit), an email platform operated by a company based in the United States, which means your address is stored on their systems and transferred outside the UK. They act as the processor and I remain responsible for what happens to it.
- Why it's held: to send you the weekly email, and — if I ever make something of my own — to tell you about that. Your address is never handed to anyone else to market to you, and there are no third-party promotions in it.
- The lawful basis: your consent, given by entering your address and confirming it via the link in the first email.
- How long: until you unsubscribe or ask for it to be deleted. There's no other reason to keep it.
- Who else sees it: nobody beyond Kit, who process it on my behalf. It isn't sold, rented, shared or handed to advertisers, and there are no advertisers.
Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom, which works immediately and doesn't ask you why. If you'd rather your address were deleted entirely rather than just marked as unsubscribed, email and say so, and it will be.
What the email itself records
Two things get recorded when the weekly email lands, and they're worth naming because most newsletters don't.
Whether you opened it. There's a small invisible image in every email. When your email app loads that image, Kit records that the message was opened and roughly when. The request also carries your IP address and what app you're reading in, which gives an approximate location — city-level at best, and often wrong.
Which links you clicked. Every link in the email is rewritten so it goes through Kit before it takes you where you're actually going. The click is recorded against your address on the way past.
Both are switched on by default and I can't turn them off for one person and leave them on for another. What they're for is straightforward: knowing whether anyone reads this, and whether anything in it was worth reading. That's the whole use. Nothing is passed to advertisers, because there aren't any, and nothing is sold.
If you'd rather not be counted, most email apps let you block remote images, which stops the open tracking dead. Apple Mail does something similar by default. Neither affects your ability to read the email.
And if the whole idea of it bothers you, the honest answer is that this probably isn't the list for you, and that's a perfectly reasonable position to take. I'd rather say that here, in plain sight, than have you find out later from a paragraph you were never going to read.
The calculators and planners
The budget planner, debt calculator, emergency fund planner and the rest all run entirely inside your browser. Nothing you type into them is transmitted anywhere, and none of it reaches me.
Two of them — the budget planner and the return ladder — save what you've entered in your browser's local storage, so your figures are still there when you come back. That data sits on your own device, not on a server. Clearing your browser data removes it, and using a private window means it's never saved in the first place.
What this site loads from elsewhere
The typefaces are served by Google Fonts. That means your browser requests the font files from Google's servers, and as with any web request, Google receives your IP address as part of it. It's the only third-party service the pages load, and it's worth naming because most privacy notices quietly leave it out.
Articles link out to places like GOV.UK, the NHS, MoneyHelper, Mind and Samaritans. Those are ordinary links — nothing is loaded from them onto the page — but once you click through, that organisation's own privacy policy applies rather than this one.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own. There is no analytics package, no advertising network, no social media tracking and no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to. If that ever changes — a privacy-respecting visitor counter is the most likely candidate — this page will be updated to say so before it happens.
If you email me
Messages sent to hello@thequietreset.uk arrive in an ordinary email inbox and stay there like any other correspondence. They aren't added to the mailing list, and nothing is done with them beyond replying.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of what's held about you, have it corrected, have it deleted, object to how it's used, or withdraw consent at any time. In practice, for this site, all of that comes down to one email address and one message to hello@thequietreset.uk. There's no process to go through and no form to fill in.
If you're unhappy with how a request has been handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's independent regulator for this.
Changes to this page
If what the site does with data changes, this page gets updated and the date below changes with it. Anything significant — a new service handling your information, or a new reason for holding it — will be said plainly rather than buried in a revision.