Last updated: 15 October 2026
1. About this privacy statement
This statement explains how personal data is processed on thepagewild.com when you browse the website, enquire about a project, subscribe to the newsletter or leave a comment. It explains the purposes, recipients and your rights. Visiting this website does not constitute consent to analytics, advertising or any other processing that requires consent.
2. Controller and contact details
pen name Renel Ashmoor
c/o IP-Management #12485
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 18
20459 Hamburg
Germany
Email: renel.ashmoor@proton.me
You can also use these details to request access to or deletion of your data, or to raise any other privacy concern.
3. Hosting, technical delivery and logs
The website is hosted on WordPress.com. WordPress.com and the Jetpack features described here belong to the Automattic group. For users in Europe, Automattic identifies Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd., Grand Canal Dock, 25 Herbert Pl, Dublin, D02 AY86, Ireland. The group also includes Automattic Inc. in the United States.
When you access the website, data processed includes your IP address, the time and requested URL, browser and device information, and, where available, the referring page. This supports content delivery, technical monitoring and protection against abuse. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR: our legitimate interest in operating a reliable and secure website.
Automattic processes visitor data on behalf of website owners when providing these website features. Its own WordPress.com accounts and processing for its own purposes are also governed by its privacy terms. Relevant group companies and technical service providers may have access. Automattic generally specifies approximately 30 days for web server logs; this is not a retention period for enquiries, comments or newsletter subscriptions. See its privacy notice for website visitors and privacy policy.
4. Project enquiries, contact form and email
The German “Zusammenarbeiten” page uses a Jetpack contact form. Required fields cover your project’s current stage, its goal, your name and your email address. Other project details and files are optional. Processing covers your submissions, any uploaded documents and technical information used for delivery and spam checks. Please include only documents and personal data needed for your enquiry.
Form responses are stored in WordPress and also emailed to our mailbox at renel.ashmoor@proton.me. Specific project enquiries and steps towards or performance of a contract are processed under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Other enquiries are handled under Article 6(1)(f), based on our legitimate interest in responding appropriately. Without the required contact and project details, we cannot meaningfully handle the form submission. You are not legally required to use the form.
The mailbox is provided by Proton AG, Switzerland. As the technical email provider, Proton receives the data needed to operate the mailbox. See the Proton privacy policy and Proton Mail privacy notice. Messages from external senders are not automatically end-to-end encrypted simply because they are sent to a Proton address. The WordPress response and the email are separate copies; deleting one does not automatically delete the other.
The English project page links to Fiverr for enquiries. This is a normal link: the platform opens when you follow it. Fiverr International Ltd., 8 Kaplan St., Tel Aviv, Israel, operates the platform as an independent controller. Our subsequent handling of your project enquiry there also serves to take steps towards a contract. The Fiverr privacy policy additionally applies.
5. Newsletter, confirmation and engagement statistics
The newsletter is sent through Jetpack/WordPress.com. Data processed includes your email address, subscription and confirmation status, and information about signup and delivery. Automattic also processes technical request data to prevent abuse. Newsletter delivery relies on your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Subscribing is optional and is not a condition of making a project enquiry.
WordPress.com provides for a confirmation email when an address has not yet been verified. Addresses already verified through WordPress.com may subscribe without another confirmation. WordPress.com account features may also be involved. See the Jetpack newsletter documentation and subscription guidance.
The newsletter dashboard also provides opening and click statistics linked to individual subscribers. These are used to assess engagement with emails and are distinct from delivery information. This individual engagement measurement requires appropriately informed consent. This privacy statement and merely visiting the website do not provide that consent.
You can unsubscribe using the link in a newsletter email or by contacting us, and withdraw your consent for the future. Evidence of consent and its withdrawal may remain necessary separately from the active mailing list, particularly to meet the duty to demonstrate consent under Article 7(1) GDPR and to address legal claims. The relevant bases are Article 6(1)(c) or (f), respectively. Unsubscribing therefore does not necessarily result in the immediate deletion of all evidence relating to the subscription.
6. Comments, WordPress.com likes and profile images
Comments are available on blog posts. The form requires a name and email address; a website address is optional. Your comment, chosen name and any website link are published. Your email address is not displayed publicly in the comment. Technical information, including your IP address and browser details, is used for purposes such as spam checks. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR: our legitimate interest in supporting discussion and preventing abusive submissions.
The website also embeds WordPress.com like features and Gravatar profile images. Loading external profile images sends technical request data to Automattic; an identifier derived from an email address may be used to match an image to a profile. Automattic is responsible for its own profile and account data under its privacy terms. Displaying authors and discussion participants helps attribute content; we rely on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for that purpose. This does not authorise additional tracking that requires consent.
Comments form part of the discussion and may remain published with the post. You can contact us to request removal. You may optionally save comment details in your browser to make a later comment easier; this is not required to comment.
7. Spam protection with Akismet
Akismet, part of the Automattic group, checks comments and Jetpack form submissions for spam. Data processed includes the submitted content, name, email address, any website address, IP address, and browser/request information. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to identify spam, automated attacks and abusive submissions so that genuine enquiries can be handled.
Akismet states that most data submitted for spam checks is retained for between two weeks and 90 days, with a limited portion kept longer. This concerns Akismet’s copy, not automatically our stored form responses or comments. See the Akismet privacy notice.
8. Cookies and consent management
We use Complianz to display and manage cookie choices. Functional cookies store your selection in your browser; the current configuration sets their lifetime to 365 days. This is intended to allow your choice to be taken into account on later visits. Processing needed to manage and respect consent is based on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with the applicable consent requirements.
Storing information on your device or accessing information already stored there is also subject to section 25 of Germany’s Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG). Consent is required under section 25(1) unless an exception applies. The strictly necessary exception in section 25(2), no. 2 concerns a service you expressly request; it is not a general exemption for analytics or advertising.
The website provides “Manage consent” and the Cookie Policy (EU) for cookie choices. You can also communicate a withdrawal to our email address above. Existing cookies can additionally be deleted in your browser. This does not unsubscribe you from the newsletter or reverse transfers that have already occurred. A cookie name recorded by an automated scan does not, by itself, establish that the associated service is currently in use.
9. Audience measurement: Google Analytics 4 and Jetpack Stats
The website embeds Google Analytics 4 through Site Kit. Google Ireland Limited, Ireland, provides the service in the European contractual region; Google group companies, particularly Google LLC in the United States, may also be involved. Data processed includes usage events, pages viewed, technical browser/device details, referral information and identifiers used to recognise visits. The configured enhanced measurement and website interaction tracking are used to assess website use and enquiries.
This analytics processing requires consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, with section 25(1) TDDDG additionally applying to non-essential device access. Google states that GA4 uses IP addresses in processing but does not log or store them. This does not automatically make the remaining events and identifiers anonymous. Retention of user- and event-level data is governed by the Analytics property settings; aggregated reports and cookie lifetimes are separate matters. See Google’s data retention guidance and Google’s privacy policy.
Jetpack Stats is also embedded. It processes page views, referral information, timestamps and technical visit data to measure the audience. Article 6(1)(a) GDPR is likewise the intended legal basis; device access that requires consent is subject to section 25(1) TDDDG. Automattic specifies approximately 30 days for IP addresses collected through Stats. This does not automatically apply to every statistics report.
Identifying consent as a legal basis does not itself obtain a visitor’s consent. In particular, consent to a newsletter is not general consent to website analytics.
10. External links and embedded book previews
Ordinary links to social media profiles, bookshops and other platforms open the destination when clicked. The relevant provider is responsible for processing on its own service. A link is different from content that is already loaded within our page.
Some book pages also embed previews from read.amazon.com. Loading a preview establishes a connection to Amazon, which receives the IP address and technical request information. This is more than a simple link. Non-essential access to your device requires consent under section 25(1) TDDDG; the corresponding personal data processing requires consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. The Amazon privacy notice describes Amazon’s own processing and the companies involved.
11. Recipients and processing outside the EEA
Recipients follow from the functions described above: in particular, Automattic companies for hosting, Jetpack and Akismet; Proton for email; and Google and Amazon for their embedded services. Disclosure to competent authorities or advisers dealing with a legal matter may also be necessary where there is a legal basis.
Automattic, Google and Amazon may process data outside the European Economic Area, particularly in the United States. A US connection alone does not establish a particular certification or an agreement on standard contractual clauses. Automattic describes its use of standard contractual clauses for international transfers in its privacy information. Google’s information about data transfers describes Google LLC’s participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and other safeguards. Any transfer basis must cover the particular recipient and transfer. These provider statements do not assert that a particular additional agreement has been concluded with us.
Switzerland, where Proton is based, and Israel, where Fiverr International Ltd. is based, benefit from European Commission adequacy decisions under Article 45 GDPR. These apply to transfers within the scope of the respective decision; it is not a blanket statement about every subprocessor or onward transfer. You can obtain information about relevant safeguards through the linked provider notices and by contacting us.
12. Retention and separate copies
For our own copies of enquiries, the relevant criteria are the purpose and stage of handling: answering the enquiry, any resulting project relationship, and any applicable legal retention obligations or specific legal claims. For business or tax records that must be retained, the document type determines the statutory period. An informal enquiry does not necessarily have the same retention requirements as an invoice or contractual record.
For newsletters, active subscriptions, withdrawal and necessary evidence of consent must be distinguished; for comments, the connection with the published discussion matters. The provider retention periods stated above apply only to the data expressly identified. They are neither a single retention period for all data nor a promise that our WordPress and mailbox copies are deleted automatically.
13. Your rights and withdrawal of consent
Subject to the statutory conditions, you have rights of access (Article 15 GDPR), rectification (Article 16), erasure (Article 17), restriction of processing (Article 18) and data portability (Article 20). Where processing is based on legitimate interests, you can object on grounds relating to your particular situation under Article 21(1). You can object to processing for direct marketing at any time.
You can withdraw consent at any time for the future. This does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal. Send your request to renel.ashmoor@proton.me. Where needed to identify the relevant person or records, we may request proportionate additional information to verify your identity.
Under Article 77 GDPR, you can complain to a data protection supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work or the alleged infringement. You do not have to contact us first.
14. Automated processes and updates
Spam detection and statistical analysis use automated processes. The website functions described here are not used to make decisions within Article 22 GDPR that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you.
We update this information when the processing described changes. The German and English versions describe the same activities. Please contact us using the details above if you have questions about this statement.
