Privacy

This site is How to Write a Novel, a free course by Stewart Ferris. It is a public website. Reading the lessons does not require an account, and the pages do not ask you to send personal details through a form.

What this site is

The course walks through writing a novel. Companion studios — names, characters, plot, openings and the rest — are separate sites on grok.me. The shop links to Amazon. Those other sites have their own privacy policies.

What is stored

Lesson progress (which modules you mark done) is saved in your browser’s local storage. It stays on your device. It is not sent to a server, and clearing site data removes it.

The small visit tally at the bottom of the home page is also kept only in your browser, so it counts openings on that device rather than a public total. It does not transmit your IP address to a counter service.

Cookies and similar

The course pages do not set their own tracking cookies. Third parties may set cookies if you follow a link or if an embedded service loads:

• Amazon Associates. Product links to Amazon.co.uk use the tag stewartferris-21, or a short amzn.to address that resolves to one. Links to Amazon.com use the tag upcottstudios-20. If you click through, Amazon may use cookies to attribute a sale. As an Amazon Associate, Stewart Ferris earns from qualifying purchases.
• Fonts. Type is loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com).
• Share buttons. Icons at the foot of each page open X, Facebook, LinkedIn or your email app only when you choose to use them.
• Advertising. This site is registered with Google AdSense (publisher ID pub-4446639715209525). If ads are shown, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to serve and measure them. You can manage ad personalisation through Google Ads Settings.

Children

The site is written for adults who write. It is not aimed at children, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or the EU you have rights under UK GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018, including access, correction, erasure, and objection to processing that relies on legitimate interests. Because this site does not keep a user file, there is usually nothing stored here to retrieve — progress and the visit tally live in your own browser. If you believe a third party named above holds data about you from a visit or a click, their own policy is the place to start. You can also write via the contacts on stewartferris.com or the About page.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page will change.

Contact

Stewart Ferris. stewartferris.com. More about the course is on the About page.