Your information.
I ask for as little as I need, I tell you plainly what happens to it, and you can have it back or have it deleted whenever you want. Version 1.0, effective 16 September 2026.
01 Who this covers
This policy covers jameshester.ai, run by me, James Hester, from New South Wales, Australia. You can reach me at james@jameshester.ai about anything on this page.
I am a sole operator, not a company with a legal department. Under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) a lot of small operators are not strictly bound by the Australian Privacy Principles. I follow them anyway, because it is the right standard and because I would want the same.
02 What I collect
It depends entirely on what you do here.
- If you just read the site. Standard technical information only: your IP address, your browser, and which pages you looked at. There are no advertising trackers on this site and nothing is sold to anybody.
- If you download a free skill. Nothing. The files are plain downloads. No email, no sign-up, no tracking pixel on them.
- If you join the email list. Your email address, and the fact that you signed up here rather than somewhere else.
- If you email me. Whatever you put in the email, which is exactly what you would expect.
I do not ask for your phone number, your address, your date of birth or anything about your health, and I have no reason to want them.
03 What I do with it
- Email you now and then about what I am working on and any new skills or newsletter posts, with links to them on this site.
- Answer you when you write to me.
- See which skills and posts people actually read, so I write more of the useful ones.
That is the whole list. I do not sell your details, rent them, trade them or hand them to advertisers. If that ever changes, I will tell you before it does, not after.
04 Who else touches it
Running a website means a few other companies handle your data on my behalf. They are service providers, not partners, and none of them get to use your details for their own purposes:
- The web host that serves these pages.
- The system that stores the email list and sends the emails.
- Google Fonts, which serves the four typefaces this site uses. Your browser requests those files directly from Google, so Google sees your IP address when it does.
Some of these companies store data outside Australia. That is normal for internet services, and it is worth you knowing rather than finding out later.
05 How long I keep it
Your email address stays on the list until you unsubscribe or ask me to remove it, and then it goes. Emails you send me I keep while the conversation is useful. Server logs roll over on their own.
06 What you can ask me to do
- Tell you exactly what I hold about you.
- Correct anything that is wrong.
- Delete it.
- Unsubscribe you, which is also one click at the bottom of every email.
Email james@jameshester.ai and I will sort it out. If I ever get it wrong and you are not happy with how I handled it, you can take it to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
07 Cookies, and the honest version
This site does not set advertising or tracking cookies. It does not run Facebook or TikTok pixels. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
08 Changes
If I change this policy I will change the version number and the date at the top. Anything significant gets said out loud in the email list too, not buried in a diff.