Legal
Privacy
In effect 3 August 2026 · Stuart Nelsen, sole proprietor · Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A one-person business in Tuscaloosa does not need a five-page privacy policy written by somebody else’s lawyer. Here is exactly what happens to your information, in the same plain words I use for everything else.
The short version
- There is no tracking on this site and no advertising cookies.
- I only have what you send me — an email, a call, or a filled-in project brief.
- I never sell, rent, or trade your information, and there is no mailing list.
- Ask me to delete what I hold and I will, and tell you what is left and why.
- What I collect
- What I do with it
- Who else can see it
- While I am working on your site
- How long I keep things
- Your choices
- Children
- Changes to this page
What I collect
Only what you hand me. There is no account to create on this site and nothing here asks you to register.
When you contact me
If you email, call, text, or message me on LinkedIn, I have whatever you sent: your name, your contact details, and whatever you told me about your business. That sits in my email and on my phone.
When you send back a project brief
The fillable brief you can download from this site is a PDF. Nothing in it is transmitted anywhere when you fill it in — it is a file on your own computer. I only receive it if you email it to me. If you do, it will contain whatever you chose to write in it, which may include your business details, your budget range, and your account situation.
When you visit the site
This site sets no advertising cookies and runs no third-party tracking scripts. Like every website in existence, the server that delivers these pages records ordinary request logs — the page requested, a rough location derived from the network, the browser type, and the time. I do not use those logs to build a profile of you and I could not identify you from them.
If I ever add basic visitor counting, it will be a privacy-focused tool that does not use cookies or follow you between sites, and this paragraph will say which one.
What I do with it
I use what you send me to answer you, quote your project, do the work, and keep in touch about it. That is the whole list.
I do not sell your information. I do not rent it, trade it, or hand it to a data broker. I do not add you to a mailing list because you emailed me once, and there is no newsletter to be quietly enrolled in.
I will not use your project, your logo, or photographs of your work as a portfolio piece without asking you first. If you would rather not appear on my site at all, say so and that is the end of it.
Who else can see it
A one-person business still runs on other people’s software. The companies below can technically see data you send me, under their own terms:
- My email provider, because that is where your messages arrive and stay.
- My phone carrier, for calls and texts.
- The company hosting this site, which handles the request logs described above.
- Payment handling, if you pay by anything other than cash or a cheque. I never see or store your full card number.
Beyond that: nobody, unless you ask me to share something, or unless I am legally required to hand it over.
About AI tools
I use AI tools in my work, and I teach people to use them. I do not paste your private business information, your customer lists, your passwords, or anything confidential into them. Public material — text that is already on your website, or that is written to be published — is fair game, and I will tell you when I am working that way.
While I am working on your site
To build or maintain a site I sometimes need access to real things: your domain registrar, your hosting, your email settings, your Google Business Profile.
- I ask for the least access that will do the job, and I prefer being added as a delegated user over being handed your password.
- Where a password is unavoidable, change it when the work is finished. I will remind you.
- Any credentials you give me are removed from my machine when the project ends.
- Accounts stay in your name throughout. I am a user on them; you are the owner.
How long I keep things
Email and project files stay while we are working together and for a few years after, because clients come back and old files are frequently the fastest way to help. Invoices and payment records are kept as long as tax rules require.
If you want your material deleted, ask. I will delete what I am not legally required to keep and tell you plainly what is left and why.
Your choices
You can ask me what I hold about you, ask for a copy of it, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. Email is enough; there is no form and no process. I answer these myself, usually the same week.
Depending on where you live you may have formal rights along these lines under state or national law. Rather than argue about which rules apply to a one-person shop in Alabama, I would rather just do the above for anyone who asks.
Children
This is a site about hiring someone to build a website. It is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent me something, tell me and I will delete it.
Changes to this page
If I start using an analytics tool, a contact form, a scheduling tool, or anything else that touches your information, I will update this page and change the date at the top. There is no version where that happens quietly.