Short, because there is little to tell.

What is collected, and why

Two forms exist. The founding-access form stores your email address, two answers about what you create and want to improve, and which page you claimed from, so the first seats fit the product. The enquiry form stores your name, email address, message, chosen enquiry type, and an optional link, so your enquiry can be read and answered. Each row carries the time it was submitted, and founding-access rows also record whether a confirmation email went out.

There is one further field, stored only if you go on to submit a form: how you arrived. That means the name of the site that linked you here, any campaign word in the link you followed, and which page you landed on. It exists so it is possible to tell whether writing something was worth the week it took. It is a note about a link, not about you: there is no identifier, nothing that follows you to any other site, and the referring address is reduced to the site's name before it is stored, so no search you typed and no private page you came from is ever kept. The lawful basis is legitimate interest in responding to requests you initiate, and in knowing which work is worth continuing.

Where it lives, and who touches it

Clarke is the data controller (UK). Submissions are written to a private Postgres database hosted by Supabase, which acts as a processor and stores the data on Clarke's behalf. The table is closed to public access: row-level security is on, the anonymous and signed-in roles have no grants, and only the server-side key used by this site's own form endpoint can read or write it.

The site itself is served by Vercel, which acts as a processor for hosting and runs the form endpoint. If you claim a founding seat, a transactional email provider acts as a processor for that one confirmation message and receives your address in order to deliver it. Nothing else is shared, nothing is sold, nothing is enriched, and no marketing platform ever receives the list.

One more thing worth stating plainly. To stop one person flooding the forms, your IP address is recorded against a short-lived counter: a row holding the address, a timestamp, and a number of attempts, kept apart from your submission and deleted automatically after a day. It is never attached to what you sent, and it is not used for anything but that count.

How long, and your rights

• Founding-access entries are kept until access opens or you ask to be removed.
• Enquiries are kept for as long as the conversation stays relevant.
• Email hello@clarkesdirective.com to see, correct, or delete anything held about you. Deletion is actioned on request.
• You also have the right to complain to the ICO, though the aim is that you never need to.

Cookies

None. That is why there is no banner.

For completeness, because a page that says "no cookies" and stays quiet about the rest is not being straight with you: your browser is asked to hold one thing while you are here. When you arrive, how you got here is kept in session storage so it survives you moving between pages, and it is sent only if you go on to submit a form. It is first-party, it is readable by nothing but this site, and your browser throws it away the moment you close the tab. Nothing else is written to your device.