Privacy Policy

Protecting Reader Data: Our Privacy Practices

How digitalsovereigntytoday.com handles the information you share when you visit, subscribe, or send a note.

Introduction

Last updated: 29 September 2026

This is the website of The Digital Sovereignty Imperative, where readers come to learn about the book, follow updates, and occasionally drop a line. The site is small, and so is the amount of data it asks of you. Most visitors read a page and leave no trace beyond a routine server log.

This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. We have written it in plain language on purpose. Legal documents tend to bury the one sentence a reader actually wants, so we have tried to surface those sentences instead of hiding them.

The short version: the only personal details we hold are the ones you hand us on purpose, like an email address for the newsletter. We share them with no one unless a court of law requires it.

Data Controller

This site is operated by Dion Wiggins in a personal capacity. For any questions about how your data is handled, use the Contact form.

Purposes of Processing and Lawful Basis

Every piece of data we touch serves one of a few modest goals. We keep the site running, watch for pages that load slowly or break, deliver the newsletters you signed up for, and answer the people who write to us.

Keeping the site healthy

Standard server logs help us spot errors and security problems. If a page suddenly returns a blank screen, those records are usually how we find out before anyone emails to complain. The lawful basis for this processing is legitimate interest.

Understanding what works

Aggregate analytics tell us which pages readers linger on and which posts go ignored. This shapes what gets written next. We look at patterns, not people. The lawful basis for this processing is legitimate interest.

Managing your subscriptions

When you create an account, we use your name and email to maintain your subscription preferences and deliver the newsletters and mailing lists you have opted into. The lawful basis for account creation is contract performance: we need your details to provide the service you signed up for. The lawful basis for each individual newsletter or mailing list subscription is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by logging in and changing your preferences, or by using the unsubscribe link in any email.

Answering you

When you use the Contact form, we use what you provide to respond to your inquiry. Nothing more. The lawful basis for this processing is legitimate interest.

External Services

A website is never built from a single piece. A handful of outside providers help deliver these pages, and each one sees a sliver of technical information in the process.

Our hosting and content-delivery providers handle the actual serving of files. They receive the basic request data any web server needs: the page you asked for, your IP address, the time. Analytics tooling, where active, measures visit patterns and performance.

Newsletters and mailing list emails are sent via Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon Web Services), which processes your email address within the European Economic Area.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information to these or any other parties. Their access is limited to what is technically required to do their job.

Information Collected

Here is the full inventory, grouped by how it reaches us.

Technical logs

Collected automatically: IP address, browser type, and the pages you visit. This is the background hum of running a website.

Account registration

When you create an account to manage your subscriptions: your first name, last name, email address, and a password. Your password is stored in hashed form and is never readable by us or anyone else.

Subscription preferences

Which newsletters and mailing lists you have opted into. These are tied to your account and are entirely under your control.

Contact submissions

Only when you provide them. The contact form collects your first name, last name, organisation, job title, email address, phone or WhatsApp number, inquiry type, and your message. Organisation and email are required. Job title and phone/WhatsApp are optional. We respond to inquiries by email only; your phone number is not used to contact you via WhatsApp or any other messaging platform and is not shared with any third party.

Notice the pattern. Everything beyond the server logs exists only because you chose to fill in a field. We never pre-check a subscription box or sign you up as a side effect of browsing.

Cookies and Tracking

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. We use them sparingly, and they fall into three buckets.

Strictly necessary

These remember your consent choices, keep your login session intact, and maintain continuity while you move between pages. The site cannot function properly without them, so they are not optional.

Analytics

These help us measure visit patterns and page performance in aggregate. They tell us a post was read in the ballpark of five hundred times; they do not tell us who you are.

Advertising

We do not use any advertising at this time. Reserved for future use. Should we introduce ad personalization, advertising cookies would support it, and we will ask for your consent first rather than assume it.

You hold the final say. Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies through its settings, and you can clear ours at any time. Some site features may behave oddly afterward, which is the trade-off for tighter control.

Data Subject Rights

The information is yours, and you can act on it. You may:

Ask what personal data we hold about you and request a copy.
Ask us to correct inaccurate data.
Ask us to delete it.
Ask us to restrict processing in certain circumstances.
Request your data in a portable format.
Object to processing based on legitimate interest.
Withdraw consent for any newsletter or mailing list at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.
Opt out of analytics tracking through your browser or by unsubscribing from emails.

To exercise any of these, contact us at [EMAIL ADDRESS]. We would rather hear from you directly than route requests through a faceless form, and a real reply is what you will get.

If you believe your data has been handled improperly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you are in the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). If you are in the EU, this is the data protection authority in the member state where you reside or work.

Storage and Deletion

Technical logs are deleted after 90 days. Contact form submissions are kept for 12 months after the last reply in the conversation, then deleted. Account data and subscription preferences are kept for as long as your account remains active. When you delete your account, all associated data is removed. Newsletter addresses are removed from the active list immediately on unsubscribe.

When you ask us to remove your information, we honor it. Some records may persist briefly in routine backups before those cycles overwrite them, but they are not used for anything in the meantime. This is a book website, not a data operation, and our retention reflects that.

Policy Updates

Practices change. New tools get adopted, old ones retired, and the law evolves. When we revise this policy in a way that affects you, we will update the date at the top and, for significant changes, note them clearly on the page.

If anything here is unclear, ask.