Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.storiedmind.com. The site is run by John Folk-Williams. You can reach him through the About page.
Comments
This site is archived. We do not accept new comments. Existing comments left on the original WordPress versions of these articles are preserved as part of the historical record and are visible to anyone who visits the post — each preserved comment shows the visitor name they submitted at the time, the comment text, and the date.
An anonymized hash of each commenter’s email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to display an avatar next to the comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Cookies
When you first visit, a small bar at the bottom of the page asks whether you’d like to be included in analytics. Your choice is stored in a first-party cookie called cc_cookie for six months.
If you accept, Google Analytics sets cookies so it can tell repeat visits apart from new ones. Google publishes the current list and purposes in their Google Analytics cookies reference.
Cloudflare, which hosts the site, may set strictly necessary cookies for technical purposes such as bot management, security challenges, load balancing, and rate limiting. Cloudflare classifies all of these as strictly necessary and does not use them for tracking. The complete list of cookies Cloudflare may set, with their purposes and retention periods, is published at Cloudflare’s cookies reference.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the site — which pages are read, which links people follow, in aggregate. Tracking begins only after you accept the cookie banner. You can change your choice at any time through the link in the “What rights you have over your data” section below.
Who we share your data with
We use Google Analytics to process site analytics on our behalf. We have disabled the optional Account Data Sharing settings, so Google does not use the data for its own purposes.
We do not share data with any other third party.
How long we retain your data
Preserved comments from the original WordPress versions of these articles are retained as part of the historical record indefinitely.
Google Analytics data is retained according to Google’s configured retention period (14 months by default). Cloudflare’s cookies have varying lifetimes depending on the feature, from seconds to 30 minutes of inactivity; see Cloudflare’s cookies reference linked above for specifics. The cc_cookie recording your consent choice expires after six months.
What rights you have over your data
You can change your cookie consent at any time: Re-open the cookie banner →
If you believe we hold personal data about you — for example, in a preserved comment — you can contact us through the About page to request access to that data, correction, or erasure. We will respond as required under the applicable data protection law (GDPR for EU/UK residents, CCPA for California residents, etc.).
Where your data is sent
Google Analytics data is processed by Google, which may transfer it to servers in the United States. The EU–US Data Privacy Framework covers this transfer.
Affiliate links
A few posts include Amazon affiliate links — both to my own ebooks and to books by other authors I recommend. If you buy through one, Amazon may pay me a small commission at no extra cost to you. Amazon processes any such transaction according to Amazon’s privacy notice.
Contact
Through the About page.
Last updated 2026-05-27.
