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Legal
Privacy and legal
Dark Olive CIC, a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales, company number 10187314. Registered office: Little Graig, Llanfairwaterdine, Knighton, United Kingdom, LD7 1TS.
The short version
This site sets no cookies. There is no analytics, no tracking pixel, no advertising network and no profiling of any kind. Nothing is stored on your device unless you throw one of the switches yourself, and nothing is sent to us unless you fill in the contact form.
That is why there is no cookie banner. There is nothing to ask you to consent to.
What is stored on your device
Only the switches you throw yourself. Until you touch one, nothing is written at all — the site simply follows whatever your operating system is already set to.
darkolive-mode— light or dark, if you use the theme toggle.darkolive-speech— whether read-aloud is on, if you switch it on.darkolive-speech-intro-seen— only if you tick “don’t show this again” on the read-aloud explanation, so we stop showing it.q:phrase-seedandq:introduced— only while read-aloud is on, and only in that tab: which introduction you have heard, so it can vary from one visit to the next. They go when you close the tab.
None of them leaves your browser, we cannot read any of them, and clearing your browser data removes them.
What the site loads from other people
Typefaces are served from this domain rather than from Google Fonts, so no third party sees your visit as the page renders. The only outside content is embedded video and audio — in project pages, and the films on the About page — and it is handled in two different ways depending on what the provider does.
YouTube and Vimeo load with the page. YouTube is served from youtube-nocookie.com, and Vimeo with its do-not-track flag set, so neither stores anything on your device unless you press play. When one of those players appears, your IP address and browser details are visible to that provider, and YouTube also fetches its poster image from i.ytimg.com. If you press play, that provider’s own terms and cookies apply.
SoundCloud and Dailymotion set cookies the moment they load, so they are not loaded. In their place you will see a button saying what will happen. Nothing is requested from them, and they learn nothing about you, unless you click it. That choice is yours to make each time and is not remembered.
The carbon figure in the footer is measured periodically and stored in this site’s own code. It used to be a live badge that called two third-party services on every page view; it does not any more.
If you use the contact form
The form asks for your name, email address and message. We use those to reply to you and for nothing else. They are not added to a mailing list, shared, sold, or used to build a profile.
Sending it works like this: the message goes to this site’s own server, which hands it to Resend, our email delivery provider, who deliver it to our inbox. Resend process it on our instructions and nothing else. The website itself keeps no copy — there is no database behind it and nothing is written to a log.
The lawful basis is legitimate interests — answering someone who has asked us a question. We keep enquiry emails for as long as the conversation is useful and then delete them; at the latest, twenty-four months after the last message. Ask us to delete yours sooner and we will.
No database sits behind this website. Enquiries live in an email inbox, not in a system you have an account on.
Each box on the form has a microphone, if you would rather speak than type. Only when you press it, the page records what you say and our server passes the sound to Google’s Gemini model, through Vercel’s AI Gateway, to be written down. The words come straight back into the box for you to check; the sound is not kept by us, and is not used for anything else. Nothing you say or write is sent to us until you send the form.
Translations, and when they’re wrong
This site is written in English. Some pages are also in other languages, and most of those were translated by an AI model from the English. A person has not checked every word, so an AI translation may get something wrong — a word, a name, or the sense of a sentence. It is not a human-verified translation, and the English is the original and the version that counts.
You can always see which is which: in the language menu, beside each language, a person means it was translated or checked by a person, and the spark means it was translated by AI. Press either for that page’s receipt — what made it, how much a person has checked, and when.
If something reads wrong, press Tell us about a mistake there. You choose the part, say what’s wrong and, if you know, what it should say. It’s signed with a passkey on your device, which shows it came from a real person, and sealed so that only we can read it — no name or email is asked for. We use it to put the page right and to answer you, and for nothing else.
Hosting and server logs
The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, their servers record requests — including IP addresses, timestamps and which page was asked for — for security and to keep the service running. We do not use those logs for analytics and we do not build anything from them.
Your rights
Where we hold personal data about you, UK GDPR gives you the right to ask for a copy of it, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to have it transferred elsewhere. In practice, for this site, that almost always means one email you sent us.
Write to us through the contact page, with the form or the email address shown there, and we will deal with it within one month.
If you are not happy with how we have handled it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would rather you told us first so we can put it right.
Changes
If this notice changes in a way that matters, the date below changes with it. Last updated 10 November 2026.