Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 2026
Introduction
Welcome to designand.dev ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
- Email Address: When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
- Comments: If you leave comments via Giscus (GitHub-based), your GitHub username and comment content are stored by GitHub.
Information Automatically Collected
- Usage Data: We collect information about how you access and use our website, including your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring URLs.
- Cookies: We use cookies for essential functionality (theme preferences, page size settings) and for analytics purposes. Third-party analytics services may also set their own cookies — see Third-Party Services below.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Send you our newsletter (if subscribed)
- Improve our website and content
- Respond to your inquiries
- Analyze website traffic, user behaviour, and content performance
- Understand how visitors interact with our pages to improve the reading experience
Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services:
- Google Analytics 4: For website traffic analysis, audience demographics, and content performance tracking. Google may use cookies to collect anonymised usage data. See Google's Privacy Policy.
- Microsoft Clarity: For heatmaps and session recordings to understand how visitors interact with our pages. Clarity may collect anonymised interaction data. See Microsoft's Privacy Statement.
- Cloudflare Turnstile: For bot protection on our newsletter forms. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
- Netlify: For website hosting and newsletter form processing. See Netlify's Privacy Policy.
Each of these services has their own privacy policies governing how they handle your data.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Delete your data
- Opt-out of marketing communications
- Data portability
Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at:
Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.