Andrew’s Intel is an independent editorial publication operated by Andrew Wilson in the United Kingdom. This notice explains what personal information is collected, why it is used and the choices available to you.
Information collected
If you subscribe, Andrew’s Intel and its newsletter provider collect your email address, subscription status, the form or page through which you subscribed, and information needed to deliver and manage the briefing. The newsletter service may also record delivery, open and click activity, device or browser information, approximate location derived from an IP address, and your preference or unsubscribe actions.
When you visit this website, hosting, security and analytics services may process technical information such as IP address, browser type, pages viewed, referring page, dates and times, and diagnostic or security events. The Agent Procurement Readiness Test runs in your browser; answers and scores are not sent to Andrew’s Intel by the current version of the tool.
Why the information is used
- To send the briefing and manage subscriptions where you have asked to receive it.
- To operate, secure, troubleshoot and improve the website and publication.
- To understand, in aggregate, which material is useful to readers.
- To meet legal obligations and protect the publication or its readers from misuse.
The main lawful basis for sending the briefing is consent. You may withdraw that consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in an email. Optional reader measurement uses consent, separately from newsletter permission. Legitimate interests may be used for proportionate security and administration, provided those interests do not override your rights.
Services used
Andrew’s Intel uses Beehiiv to manage subscriptions and deliver newsletters, OpenAI Sites to host this website, and Cloudflare to manage the domain and related network services. Links may take you to YouTube or other third-party sources. Those services process information under their own privacy terms.
Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where required, appropriate contractual or legal safeguards are used by the relevant provider.
Optional reader measurement
You can allow or decline reader measurement using Cookie & privacy settings in the footer. If you allow audience measurement, Andrew’s Intel records visits, pages viewed, arrival source and campaign, Connected Reading clicks, download and subscription-link clicks, and tool interactions. A separate sponsor-measurement choice permits marked sponsor placement views and clicks for aggregate sponsor reporting. Sponsor-only permission does not enable general audience events. These records support the purposes you select. A click does not prove that a person read an article, used a download, subscribed or purchased anything.
Measurement is off until you choose to allow it. You can separately choose to be recognised from a personalised link, which may associate subsequent activity in that visit with a contact record. Such a link is not a login or proof of identity: someone else may use a forwarded link. Providing an email address for an event, document or enquiry does not itself subscribe you to the newsletter or grant marketing permission. Newsletter status is recorded separately.
Reader measurement stores a random visit reference in session storage and your choices in local storage for up to 180 days. A visit expires after 30 minutes without a recorded event. The system does not fingerprint devices or use third-party advertising pixels. It does not collect search text, tool answers, scores, research notes, full referring URLs or raw IP addresses into reader records. Short-lived, daily hashed network keys are used separately to limit automated abuse. Browser Do Not Track pauses optional measurement only if you select “Follow my browser’s Do Not Track preference” in Cookie & privacy settings. That preference is off by default; your explicit site choices otherwise apply. Global Privacy Control separately disables optional measurement.
Visit and activity records older than 90 days are removed on the next collection or reporting request. Withdrawing measurement stops further collection and requests deletion of the current visit’s activity. Contact, campaign and subscription records are managed separately; ask for deletion of your contact record and recognised history using the privacy contact route below. Sponsor reports contain aggregate results, not email addresses or personalised link codes.
Retention and sharing
Subscriber information is normally kept while you remain subscribed and for a reasonable period afterwards for administration, compliance and suppression-list purposes. Technical records are retained according to the operational and security needs of the relevant service.
Personal information is not sold. It is shared only with providers that help operate the publication, where required by law, or where necessary to protect legal rights and security.
Your choices and rights
You may unsubscribe at any time, update newsletter preferences through Beehiiv, or ask for access to, correction of, deletion of, restriction of, or a copy of personal information where UK data-protection law provides that right. You may also object to certain processing or withdraw consent.
For privacy enquiries, reply to any Andrew’s Intel newsletter email and clearly mark the message “Privacy”. If a concern is not resolved, you may complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Cookies and browser storage
Our cookie notice covers cookies and similar technology, including local and session storage. Essential storage supports privacy choices, security and sign-in. Requested features use storage for reading preferences, returning to Library results, and tool work you choose to save. Optional measurement is off until you accept it. Browsing, scrolling or dismissing settings without saving is not treated as consent.
Choose Accept all, Reject optional, or Cookie settings. In settings you can separately allow audience measurement, sponsor measurement and personalised-link recognition. Recognition requires audience measurement. No optional box is selected for a new visitor. Both accepting and rejecting optional tracking leave the publication and requested tools available.
| Storage or feature | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy choices — local storage | Remember the choices, notice version and decision time. | Up to 180 days; expired choices are discarded when you return. |
| Optional visit reference — session storage | Connect only the activity you permit within a visit. | Browser-tab session; a visit expires after 30 minutes without a recorded event. |
| Text size — local storage | Remember a text size you choose. The controls explain that it is saved on this device. | Until you select Reset or clear browser storage. |
| Library return state — session storage | Return you to your current browsing or search results. | Browser-tab session. |
| Saved tool profiles and research — local storage | Keep work you explicitly choose to save on this device. Answers and notes are not sent to our measurement service. | Until you clear the saved profile, delete notebook entries or clear browser storage. |
| Hosting/security and management sign-in cookies | Operate and secure the service and authenticate management access when used. | Managed by the hosting and sign-in providers for those operational purposes. |
Use Cookie & privacy settings in the footer at any time to change your choices or reject optional tracking. A changed notice version or an expired choice prompts you again. Rejecting optional tracking clears the visit reference and requests deletion of the current visit’s activity; it does not erase tool work you asked to save. See the reader-measurement section above for retention and contact-deletion options.
Optional measurement requires your affirmative permission. You can also choose to follow your browser’s Do Not Track preference; this setting is off by default and never prevents you from changing your site choices. Global Privacy Control separately disables optional measurement. No third-party advertising pixels or embedded video players are currently included in the publication pages. Beehiiv, YouTube and other external destinations apply their own storage and privacy choices after you follow a link; our choices do not control those other sites. A future embedded service or new optional tracker must be assessed and gated before it is added.
Changes to this notice
This notice may be updated when the website, publication or providers change. The date at the top identifies the current version.