Privacy policy

Last updated November 10, 2026

Who we are

This website, rwinstonsmith.com, belongs to R. Winston Smith (Bobby), the author of Up On Deck. "We" and "us" on this page mean him. To ask anything about your information, use the contact form on the home page.

What we collect

• Contact form: your name, your email address and your message.

Nothing else. The site has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising tags, and it sets no cookies. Its fonts and images are served from this site, not from other companies.

Why we use it

• Contact form: to read your message and reply to you. We rely on your request as the reason.

We never sell your information or share it for advertising.

Who handles it for us

• Netlify, Inc. hosts this website and receives the contact form. Netlify's privacy policy
• Messages from the contact form are emailed to the author, so his email provider also holds a copy.

The "Get your copy" buttons and the book links go to Amazon. Once you are there, Amazon's own privacy notice applies.

How long we keep it

We keep messages only as long as we need them to reply and to keep a record of our conversation, then delete them.

Your choices

• Ask to see the information we hold about you, or to have it corrected or deleted, through the contact form.

Cookies and tracking

This site uses no cookies and no analytics. If that ever changes, every cookie will be listed in the cookie policy before it is used, and a "Cookie settings" link at the foot of every page will let you switch it off.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.