JOE MARLOW / PRIVACY

Privacy & Cookies

Pre-launch draft — November 7, 2026. The contact information is confirmed. Account-specific hosting, cookie, retention, and international-transfer information must still be confirmed before public launch.

This website is operated for Joe Marlow, an author based in South Lyon, Michigan, United States, with website administration provided by Jonathan Marlow. It presents Joe’s books, essays, and biography. This notice explains the website’s current design and the handling of information associated with visits. It will be updated when the site’s features or providers change.

Information and website features

The author website has no visitor registration form, newsletter signup, comments form, shopping cart, or payment collection. It does not contain advertising pixels or optional audience analytics added by the website developer. Book filtering and the reading room run in your browser without saving a visitor profile.

Like other websites, delivering pages requires technical information such as an IP address, requested URL, browser information, and the time of a request. Hosting and security providers may process technical records to deliver the website, prevent abuse, and diagnose errors. The details of their processing and retention must be confirmed for the selected hosting account before launch.

Hosting and service providers

This review version is hosted using OpenAI’s ChatGPT Sites service and its infrastructure providers. OpenAI may process information as needed to provide and secure that service. The applicable account agreement and data-processing terms govern its role. Read OpenAI’s privacy policy and cookie policy for its services; these documents do not replace this site-specific notice.

The private review version requires ChatGPT authentication. The author website’s application does not request or store a visitor’s ChatGPT profile. The login service has its own handling of account information. The intended public author site will not require visitors to register with Joe.

Cookies and similar technologies

The author website’s own application does not set cookies, use browser storage, or install advertising or analytics tracking. Hosting, security, and authentication services may use cookies or similar technologies. A complete inventory of those services’ cookies, purposes, and lifetimes remains a pre-launch verification item. We do not treat continued browsing as consent to optional tracking.

If optional cookies or tracking are introduced, this notice and the website controls must be updated, including obtaining consent before activation where required. Your browser also provides cookie controls. Blocking necessary cookies can affect authentication or other service functions.

Blog posts, fonts, and external links

Book covers, the author photograph, and fonts are served from this website. Blog posts are requested by the website’s server from Joe’s public Blogger feed. Your browser does not load the full Blogger page within an embedded frame to read those posts here.

Amazon and Blogger links take you to separate websites. Clicking those links allows the destination to receive information needed to serve its pages. Purchases, comments, accounts, and any tracking on those services are handled under their own terms and privacy notices. The Amazon links currently search by book title and author and contain no affiliate tracking identifiers added by this website.

Purposes and legal grounds

The purposes of technical processing are to deliver and protect the website and resolve operational problems. If GDPR applies, the proposed basis for the operator’s necessary technical processing is the legitimate interest in providing a reliable, secure author website, subject to the required assessment of visitors’ rights. Any processing required by law uses the applicable legal basis. These grounds and the responsibilities of hosting providers must be confirmed for launch.

Retention, locations, and disclosures

The author application has no visitor database and does not retain reader selections between visits. ChatGPT Sites also provides platform-operated traffic statistics, including page views and unique visitor counts. These statistics are distinct from third-party advertising pixels or analytics scripts added to this website. Provider-operated logs, security records, and authentication records may have different retention periods. Before launch, the operator must confirm the applicable periods or deletion criteria, processing locations, and any required international-transfer safeguards under the hosting agreement. No specific storage country or transfer mechanism is represented by this draft.

Technical information may be processed by the providers needed to deliver and secure the website and disclosed when legally required. The author application does not sell visitor information or share it for targeted advertising.

Your privacy rights

Depending on the law that applies, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal data, restrict processing, object to processing based on legitimate interests, withdraw consent where consent is used, and complain to a relevant data-protection authority. Rights are subject to applicable conditions and exceptions. The operator may need to verify a request and coordinate with the hosting provider.

Contact and updates

For privacy questions, complaints, or rights requests, contact Joe Marlow at jmarlow750@gmail.com. Please do not send passwords, financial information, medical records, or other sensitive information. Email correspondence is handled through Gmail and is retained as needed to respond, resolve the matter, and meet applicable legal obligations.

This draft reflects the current limited site features. Adding newsletters, forms, analytics, affiliate links, embedded videos, or sales will require a fresh review and appropriate updates.