Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for this site

This website is operated by Sam Illingworth. For data protection purposes, I am the data controller.

Contact: sam.illingworth@gmail.com

Analytics

This site uses GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly, open source analytics tool. GoatCounter does not use cookies, does not collect personal data, and does not track you across sites. It counts page views only. No data is sent to Google, Facebook, or any advertising network. Fonts are self-hosted. There is nothing to consent to because no personal data is collected.

Speaking enquiries

The speaking page provides an email address for booking enquiries. If you contact me, I use your information solely to respond to your enquiry. I do not add you to any mailing list, share your details with third parties, or use them for marketing. I delete enquiry data once the conversation is concluded or within 12 months, whichever is sooner.

The legal basis for processing this data is legitimate interest (responding to a direct enquiry you have initiated).

AI Adoption Audit

The AI Adoption Audit runs entirely in your browser. Your answers are not sent to any server. No data is collected, stored, or transmitted. The PDF report is generated locally on your device.

Reading List Diversity Audit

The Reading List Diversity Audit sends the DOIs you enter to the CrossRef public API to retrieve publication metadata (author names, affiliations, journal). No other data is sent. CrossRef does not receive any information about you. All analysis and scoring runs in your browser. The PDF report is generated locally on your device.

The Slow AI Public Library

The Slow AI Public Library runs entirely in your browser. Your name and answers are not sent to any server. No data is collected, stored, or transmitted. The downloadable library card is generated locally on your device using the HTML Canvas API.

Games and Terminal Poems

The browser games hosted on this site (Consensus and Just This Once) save a small number of settings, such as whether sound is muted or whether you have reached an ending, in your browser’s local storage. These stay on your device, are never sent to me or anyone else, and can be cleared at any time through your browser settings. The Terminal Poems download files directly from this site. No data is collected when you read or download a poem.

Podcast player

The Slow Takes player on the Slow AI page does not load until you press play. When you do, it loads Apple’s podcast player from Apple, which may set cookies and process data under Apple’s privacy policy. Nothing from Apple loads if you never press play.

TikTok feed

The TikTok feed on the speaking page does not load until you press the button. When you do, it loads an embed from TikTok, which may set cookies and process data under TikTok’s privacy policy. Nothing from TikTok loads if you never press it.

Tools and services hosted elsewhere

Some links take you to services run by other companies, each with its own privacy policy: the Slow AI newsletter (Substack), the Integrity Debt Audit (Streamlit Community Cloud), courses (Maven), guides (Gumroad), games (itch.io), and books (Amazon and publishers). This policy covers this website only. Anything you enter on those services is handled under their terms.

Hosting

This site is hosted by Netlify (Netlify Inc., San Francisco, USA). Netlify may process server access logs (IP address, timestamp, requested URL) as part of normal web hosting. See Netlify's privacy policy for details. Netlify participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal data I hold about you. You also have the right to restrict or object to processing, and the right to data portability. To exercise any of these rights, email sam.illingworth@gmail.com.

If you believe your data has been handled improperly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).