Privacy policy.
Last reviewed: 5 October 2026
This notice explains how Andrew Entwistle, the operator of Andrew Ent, uses personal information when you visit this website, create a reader account, follow stories, leave feedback or get in touch.
Who is responsible for your information?
Andrew Entwistle is the data controller for this website.
Contact Andrew
Use this form for enquiries, privacy requests or permission to use the writing. Your details are used to respond to your message.
What information is used, and why?
| Information | Purpose | Lawful basis |
|---|---|---|
| Account name, email, password hash and account settings | Provide your reader account, authenticate you and handle password resets. | Performance of the reader-account service agreement. |
| Followed stories, chapter progress and reading preferences | Provide the bookshelf and reading features you request. | Performance of the reader-account service agreement. |
| Comments, ratings and displayed account name | Publish your feedback, allow author replies and moderate misuse. Comments and your displayed name are visible to other readers; keep private information out of them. | Performance of the requested commenting service; legitimate interests in keeping the community safe for moderation. |
| Enquiries and correspondence | Answer you, address problems and keep relevant correspondence. | Legitimate interests in communicating with readers; steps before a contract where relevant. |
| Email subscriptions, if you choose to subscribe | Send the updates you agreed to receive. | Consent. You can unsubscribe at any time; cookie choices do not subscribe you to emails. |
| IP address, browser details and server/security records | Deliver the website, investigate faults and protect accounts and content. | Legitimate interests in operating and protecting the website. |
| Cookie choice and optional service data, where enabled | Remember your choices and operate only the optional services you authorise. | Legitimate interests for keeping the consent record; consent for optional analytics or marketing. |
You do not need an account to browse public pages. If you withhold details needed for registration or a password reset, those features cannot work. Optional consent is never a condition of reading publicly available stories.
Who receives your information?
Hosting, email delivery and backup providers may process information to operate the site. Information may also be disclosed where required by law or needed to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
To be confirmed: hosting, email delivery, backups and any analytics providers.
When you follow a link to Amazon, Patreon or another independent service, its own privacy notice applies. This page does not operate a checkout or collect payment card details.
International processing
To be confirmed after reviewing where the hosting, email and backup providers process information and their transfer safeguards.
How long information is kept
To be confirmed: set periods or clear deletion criteria for accounts, comments, reading records, enquiries, mailing lists, security logs and backups.
The cookie-choice record supplied with this page expires after 180 days. Account deletion requests and any exceptions needed for legal obligations or disputes are assessed separately.
Your rights and choices
Depending on the circumstances, you can ask to access, correct, erase, restrict or receive a portable copy of your personal information. Use the contact form above to make a request. Identity checks may be needed to protect your account.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to direct marketing at any time. Where processing relies on consent, you can withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of earlier processing. Use “Cookie choices” for optional cookies and unsubscribe from emails separately.
If you are unhappy with how your information is handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can also contact your local data-protection authority where applicable.
Updates to this notice
This notice will be reviewed when the website’s services or data practices change. Material changes will be brought to readers’ attention where appropriate.
Read it. Enjoy it.
Ask before reusing it.
Unless stated otherwise, original stories, chapters, drafts and other original writing published here are copyright © Andrew Entwistle. Rights in third-party material remain with its respective owners.
You are welcome to read the material for your own personal enjoyment using the features provided by the site. Works in progress may change, be withdrawn or be superseded by a published edition.
No permission is granted to copy, republish, sell, redistribute, translate, adapt or otherwise repurpose these works without Andrew Entwistle’s express written consent. This includes manual copying, scraping, automated extraction, uploading material to AI services, training or fine-tuning AI models, creating datasets, and generating derivative works using artificial intelligence.
Any rights or exceptions provided by applicable law remain unaffected, including lawful quotation or fair dealing where their conditions are met. Ordinary browser caching and the site’s own reading and accessibility features are permitted. These terms do not transfer ownership of any feedback you submit.
For permissions, licensing or suspected misuse, contact Andrew using the form in the privacy section above. Linking to a public story page is welcome.
Cookie policy.
Cookies are small records stored in your browser. Similar rules can apply to local storage, tracking pixels and embedded services. This site distinguishes the essential features you request from optional analytics and marketing.
| Category / record | Purpose | Duration and choice |
|---|---|---|
Essential: ae_cookie_consent | Records your category choices, policy version and choice date on this browser. | 180 days. Necessary to remember your decision. |
| Account session cookie, on pages that use it | Keeps your requested login secure across pages. The exact session-cookie name and configured lifetime must be confirmed before publication. | Normally the browser session; verify the server configuration. |
| Requested reader settings | Voice or reading settings may be stored with your account or in browser storage. The existing reader implementation and exact storage records must be confirmed. | Confirm the implementation and retention before publication. |
| Optional analytics | Measurement of visitor activity, only if an analytics service is configured and described here. | No analytics service is enabled by this package. |
| Optional marketing | Advertising or social-media tracking, only if a service is configured and described here. | No marketing service is enabled by this package. |
Optional categories are off until you choose them. Rejecting optional cookies leaves essential reading and account features available. You can reopen the choices below at any time and withdraw optional consent as easily as you gave it. Your choice applies to this browser; deleting cookies or changing browser means you may be asked again.
Browser controls can also block or delete cookies. Blocking essential session cookies may prevent login. JavaScript is needed for this popup; with it disabled, this package does not load optional services.