Privacy

Who we are

megsmith.nz is Meg Smith's personal website and blog. This statement explains how the site handles the information it collects. For a privacy question or request, use the Cloverbase contact form.

Newsletter

If you sign up for The Intelligence Age newsletter, we collect your email address so we can send it to you. Newsletter subscriptions are processed by Kit. Every newsletter carries an unsubscribe link.

New blog post emails

If you subscribe to new blog post emails, we hold your email address, the dates you subscribed and confirmed, and a scrambled (hashed) form of your network address and browser details, which we use to limit abuse of the form.

We use your address only to send a confirmation email and then one plain-text email for each new blog post. Every email carries an unsubscribe link. When you unsubscribe, we delete your email address from the subscription record.

These emails are separate from the newsletter and from any other website. The emails arrive from a cloverbase.com address. The short summary in each email is written by an AI service from the published blog post text only. No subscriber details are sent to that service.

Website analytics and cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used. It loads after you interact with the page or after the page has been idle. It can collect the pages you view, the page you came from, browser and device information, approximate location, and whether a newsletter or blog post sign-up succeeded. We do not send your name or email address to Google Analytics.

Google Analytics may set first-party cookies such as _ga. You can block or delete cookies in your browser. The site still works if you do.

Who handles information for us

We do not sell personal information. We share it only with the providers needed to run these functions, or where the law requires it. They are Kit (newsletter), Microsoft (blog post emails), Google Analytics (measurement), and Vercel (website hosting). Each handles information under its own terms. Some of these providers store or process information outside New Zealand.

Keeping information and your choices

We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purpose it was collected for, or to meet legal obligations. Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask what personal information we hold about you and ask us to correct it. To do either, or to raise a concern, use the Cloverbase contact form. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz.