Privacy policy
The short version: we don't track you. The only personal information we hold is what you choose to send us, and we use it only to reply.
1. Who we are
july.us and west.us are published by July & West. This policy covers the two websites. The July & West store is a separate site with its own privacy policy, which covers orders, payments and customer accounts.
2. What we collect when you read
Nothing that identifies you. The sites carry no advertising, no analytics and no tracking scripts, and they set no cookies of their own. Our web server keeps ordinary access logs — the address a request came from, the page asked for, the time, and the browser's description of itself — for the purpose of keeping the site running and secure. These are kept for a limited period and are not used to profile readers.
The search box on each site works entirely in your browser: what you type is not sent to us.
3. What we collect when you write to us
If you use the contact form on our About page, we receive the name and email address you give and the message you write, along with which site you wrote from. We keep this so that we can reply and so that we have a record of the correspondence. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not share your message or your details with anyone else, except where the law requires it.
4. How long we keep it
Messages are kept for as long as they are useful to the conversation, and then deleted. If you would like a message deleted sooner, ask, and we will.
5. Where it is kept
The sites and their records are hosted on servers in the United States. If you write to us from elsewhere, your message travels here.
6. Links to other sites
We link to towns, parks, organisations and small businesses. Their sites have their own privacy practices, which we do not control.
7. Children
The sites are written for a general readership and are not directed at children under thirteen. We do not knowingly collect information from them.
8. Your rights
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to us through the About page and we will answer.
9. Changes
If we ever add something to the sites that changes what we collect — an analytics tool, a newsletter — we will change this page first.
10. Contact
Questions about privacy can be sent through our About page.