Privacy policy

Last updated: 21 August 2026

Who we are

Kickbrand operates this website at kickbrand.co and is the data controller for personal data collected through it. If you have a question about this policy, or about personal data we hold, contact us through our LinkedIn page.

What this policy covers

This policy covers personal data collected through kickbrand.co. It does not cover other sites we link to. Purchases of our guides are handled by Gumroad under its own privacy policy, and anything you enter there is governed by that policy rather than this one.

What we collect, and why

Analytics. If you allow it, we use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited, how people arrive, and which content gets read. This is recorded against a randomly generated identifier, not your name, and we do not use it to identify individuals. We rely on your consent for this, and nothing is stored on your device until you give it.

Enquiries. If you get in touch, we process what you send so we can reply and, if the conversation continues, prepare a proposal. We rely on steps taken at your request before entering a contract, and on our legitimate interest in answering people who contact us.

Technical logs. Our hosting provider records standard server information — IP address, browser type, page requested, timestamp — in order to serve the site and protect it from abuse. We rely on our legitimate interest in running a secure, working website.

We do not sell personal data. We do not use it for profiling or automated decisions that produce legal effects for you.

Cookies

Nothing that needs your consent is stored until you choose. On your first visit a banner asks what you allow; until you answer, analytics run in a cookieless mode that stores no identifier on your device and sets no analytics cookie.

• kb_consent — remembers your cookie choice so you are not asked again on every page. Strictly necessary, so it is set regardless of your answer. Stored for six months.
• _ga and _ga_… — set by Google Analytics to tell visitors apart and keep session state. Set only if you allow analytics cookies. Stored for up to two years.

Changing your mind. Select "Cookie settings" at the bottom of any page to review or withdraw your choice at any time. Withdrawing is as easy as giving consent and takes effect immediately.

Who we share data with

We use a small number of providers, each processing data on our instructions:

• Vercel — hosting and delivery of the website.
• Sanity — the content management system the site is built on.
• Google — analytics, and only where you have consented.

Some of these providers process data in the United States. Where that happens, the transfer relies on the European Commission’s adequacy decision for the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, or on Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep it

• Analytics — held in Google Analytics for no longer than fourteen months.
• Enquiries — kept for as long as needed to answer you and, where we go on to work together, for as long as our records require.
• Server logs — kept briefly by our hosting provider for security and diagnostics, then discarded.

Your rights

If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, you can ask us to: confirm what personal data we hold and give you a copy; correct anything inaccurate; delete it; restrict or object to how we use it; and provide data you gave us in a portable form. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time — that does not affect anything done before you withdrew it.

To exercise any of these, contact us through our LinkedIn page. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the data protection supervisory authority in the country where you live or work.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the site changes or when the way we handle data changes. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.