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Privacy
Two things on this site ask you for something: the letter, and the contact form. This page says what happens to what you give them. The short version is that your email address is the only thing kept, it is never sold, shared or swapped, and one click ends it.
Who is responsible
R.C. Blackmere is a pen name. Behind it is Nat Ravenveil, a sole trader registered in Finland under business ID 3490265-1, and that is the data controller for everything described on this page.
Anything here — a question, a correction, a request to be forgotten entirely — goes to contact@rcblackmere.com, and is answered by a person rather than a form. A postal address is printed at the foot of every letter, and is on the public register against the business ID above, for anyone who would rather write on paper.
What is collected
Three things, in total. Nothing on this site collects anything else.
The letter
Your email address, and nothing beside it. Not your name, not the page you signed up from, not your location, not the time of day.
Asking to join does not join you. It sends one email with a link in it, and until that link is clicked the address is held unconfirmed and cannot be written to. Never click it and it is simply discarded. That click is also the only record kept of your consent, which is precisely why nothing else about you needs storing.
- Why
- To send you the letter, and for nothing else.
- Lawful basis
- Your consent — GDPR Article 6(1)(a).
- Kept
- Until you leave. Leaving takes you off the list; the address stays on a suppression record so that nothing can put you back on it by accident. Ask and that record goes too.
The contact form
Your name, your email address, the subject if you gave one, and your message. These are put into an email and sent to my inbox. There is no database behind the form and nothing is written to one — the message exists as mail, in a mailbox, the way a letter exists in a drawer.
An address that writes to me is never added to the letter. That one you join yourself, on purpose.
- Why
- To read what you wrote and reply to it.
- Lawful basis
- Legitimate interest in answering my own correspondence — GDPR Article 6(1)(f).
- Kept
- As long as the correspondence is live, then deleted.
The check that you are a person
Both forms are guarded by Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at your IP address and some ordinary signals from your browser to decide whether a human is submitting the form. The verdict reaches this site as a yes or a no; the signals behind it do not, and nothing about them is stored here.
- Why
- So that the inbox and the list are not filled by machines.
- Lawful basis
- Legitimate interest in keeping the site usable — Article 6(1)(f).
- Kept
- Not by me at all.
Who else sees it
Three companies, each doing one job, each under a contract that lets them act only on instruction. None of them is paid in data, and none of them may use yours for anything of their own.
- Hostinger Reach (Hostinger, UAB, Lithuania) stores the list and sends the letters. It records whether a letter was opened and which links in it were clicked — the standard measure of whether a newsletter is worth writing. That is never used to build a profile of you or to decide anything about you.
- Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., United States) serves every page, runs the anti-spam check, and carries the contact form's mail. Its servers keep short-lived technical logs, as any web server does.
- Google (Google LLC, United States) hosts the mailbox a contact-form message finally lands in. Cloudflare receives it at this domain and forwards it on; from there it sits in an ordinary inbox, the way any letter you sent me by hand would.
If the letter is all you signed up for, your address never leaves the European Economic Area. Hostinger is a Lithuanian company and the list lives with them, which puts the newsletter wholly inside the GDPR rather than relying on a transfer mechanism to reach back into it. Nothing about the letter passes through the two companies below.
Cloudflare and Google are both established in the United States, so what passes through them — a page request, the anti-spam check, and every contact-form message — does leave the EEA. Those transfers rest on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses under Article 46 of the GDPR, agreed in each company's data processing terms.
Beyond those three, nothing. Your address is never sold, rented, swapped with another author, handed to an advertiser, or used to find you anywhere else. It would be disclosed only if a court demanded it.
Cookies, trackers and the things that are not here
There is no analytics on this site. No advertising, no pixels, no fingerprinting, no social-media embeds, and no banner asking you to accept any of it — because there is nothing here to accept.
The anti-spam check may set one short-lived cookie for the single purpose of remembering that it has already been passed. It is strictly necessary for the forms to work, which is the one category of cookie that needs no consent, and nothing on this site reads it.
One honest exception: the two typefaces this site is set in are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your IP address reaches Google's servers when a page opens. Google is told nothing else, and this site sets nothing on Google's behalf — but it is a request to a third party, and you should know it happens.
What you can ask for
Under the GDPR you may ask to see the personal data held about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to have its use restricted, to receive it in a portable form, and to object to it being used at all. For the letter, you may withdraw your consent whenever you like — withdrawing is as easy as giving, and it does not make anything already sent unlawful.
The fastest of these needs no request at all: every letter carries an unsubscribe link at its foot, it works in one click, it takes effect immediately, and it never asks you why. For anything else, write to contact@rcblackmere.com. You will have an answer within a month, and there is no charge.
If you think something here is being done wrongly, you are also entitled to complain to a supervisory authority, and you do not have to raise it with me first. The one that supervises this site is the Finnish Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman — Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto — but you may equally go to the authority of the country you live or work in.
Children
These books are written for adults, and so is the letter. It is not meant for anyone under sixteen, and no address is knowingly kept for anyone younger. If one has reached the list, write and it will be removed the same day.
When this changes
If what happens to your address ever changes, this page changes with it, and the date below changes too. A change that needs your agreement will be asked for rather than assumed.
Last updated 20 September 2026.