Privacy notice
Last updated 11 November 2026.
Who runs this site
This is the personal website of Dr H.A. Hellyer, who is the data controller for information sent through it.
Site scripts and services
This site has no advertising trackers, social media embeds or site analytics. Fonts, images, video thumbnails and the archive search load from this site. Pages with a contact form use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a message is sent by a person and not a bot.
Hosting
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes requests to serve and protect the site under its privacy policy.
Videos
Video thumbnails are stored on this site. A video loads from YouTube only when you press play, using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). From that point, Google's privacy policy applies.
Contact forms
The contact forms ask for your name, email address and, depending on the form, your outlet or organisation, a deadline or event date, and an optional telephone number. When you send a form, your entries are emailed to Dr Hellyer through Resend, an email delivery service, and you receive an automatic reply. The site itself keeps no copy. Dr Hellyer keeps messages in his email for as long as he needs them to reply and follow up. Resend’s privacy policy applies to delivery. Please do not send sensitive information through the forms.
Why your information is used
Information sent through the forms is used only to answer your enquiry, on the basis of a legitimate interest in replying to people who get in touch.
Newsletter subscriptions
Submitting a newsletter form opens Substack in a new tab and passes the address you enter to Substack’s subscription page. Substack confirms the subscription. Substack’s privacy policy applies. Contact forms do not subscribe you to the newsletter.
Links to other sites
Articles, videos and profiles link to their publishers and broadcasters, which have their own privacy policies.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what information is held about you, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, using the general enquiries form. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.