GDPR & Data

Welcome. If you’re here, it’s safe to assume you’re a human and have some idea what GDPR stands for. Since a chunk of my readers qualify, I give ya this. If you’re stateside, you’re safe to bounce. Cats and computers, I’m sorry – ya get nothin’.

This is a website about Tableau, so naturally, I collect data from Google that tells me you’ve been here. I don’t get your name or anything really useful (such as why you came to this blog or page in the first place), but I’m a consultant, so I rarely look that granular. Google hands me everything about you in such an aggregated format, I can’t do too much to ya anyway.

You can sign up if you want. I figure most people have methods (Pocket, RSS, mind-control, Google-like omnipotence…) to track new posts. If not, you can subscribe. I do nothing with these emails personally. If you want to cyber-stalk my writings, that’s on you. Every email gives you a chance to change your mind.

You can also comment on a fair whack of things. These are moderated by machine and me – some things get lost in spam forever and I miss them. Spam gets deleted quite frequently. It’s the internet – there’s more spam than a Hormel factory. Some things are rude and they get censored into oblivion. If it makes it through, then the information you provide is the information the world can see. It’s that whole walking in front of windows idea. I do not fix typos, so whatever you type, how you type it, is there. I believe, if you don’t like it, you can delete your own comment. That might be in email too.

This website lives somewhere in the US. This is that whole glass walls idea and my neighbors all have binoculars. I can’t do much about them. If you’re really worried, I hear there’s a browser that masks everything.

For a data blog, I collect crap for data. Next time, I’ll do better. If you really want, you can provide feedback via Twitter. That’s all on Twitter and you.