Privacy and inquiry information

1. Who we are and why we ask about your business

William Birkett runs WebsitesByWillie. Your message helps us understand what you need, see whether I can help and reply before you commit or pay.

The form asks for your name, business or project name, email, package choice and message. You can also add a current website and notes about wording, a logo or photos. Do not include passwords, account access details or private customer information.

2. Your saved draft in this browser

The form saves your text, an attempt number and the last result in temporary storage for this browser tab, called session storage. That helps keep your text after a reload. If we do not know whether an attempt went through, the warning stays visible until you review it and acknowledge the risk of sending a duplicate.

When available, Start a new draft clears the saved form draft. You must first review and acknowledge any attempt with an unknown result. Closing the tab may remove its saved data, but does not prove that every copy restored by the browser or separate test record has been erased.

This browser draft is separate from the six-month policy below.

3. Sending your message

The form sends your details from your browser to Formspree, the service that handles the form. Its email notification is set to willie@websitesbywillie.com, where Willie reads messages using Google’s Gmail. This is the intended route for receiving and replying to your inquiry.

Formspree and Google handle your message and information about sending and delivery. They have their own rules for storing and removing information. A service accepting a message does not prove it reached the inbox.

This website supplies its own fonts and adds no new customer database. The service that hosts the website may keep technical records used to operate and protect it. Those records follow the host’s own rules and are separate from your saved form draft.

4. Optional website statistics

Google Analytics loads only after you choose Allow statistics. It helps Willie understand basic page visits and visitor numbers. No thanks works equally well, and the website and inquiry form still work. Advertising features and automatic form tracking are not part of this setup.

The statistics use only a fixed public page address and page name. We do not copy query strings, page fragments, referring-page addresses, inquiry text, names, email addresses or other form fields into Analytics. Google also handles technical information about the connection and your browser or device under its own privacy rules.

This browser remembers your statistics choice for 180 days from your decision when storage works. Analytics cookies created by this website also use that maximum lifetime. A normal visit does not extend the browser choice. Privacy choices in the footer lets you change your mind. No thanks stops future statistics, removes this setup’s Analytics cookies and reloads after withdrawal to clear the running code; it does not delete information already sent to Google.

The existing Analytics property is set to keep event-level data for two months and user-level data for fourteen months, with its reset-on-new-activity option on. These account settings apply separately from the 180-day browser choice, and aggregated reports can be kept longer. The six-month inquiry policy below is separate.

Google processes the optional statistics under its own privacy policy. You can ask Willie about privacy using the contact address below.

5. How long we keep inquiry information

If an inquiry does not become a customer project, we keep ordinary message copies under our control for six months after the last contact, then remove them from active inquiry records. Last contact means the latest message from you or Willie, including contact outside email. Required records and genuine unresolved matters may need to be kept longer. Project, invoice and dispute records are handled separately.

The policy uses a monthly manual review, rather than automatic deletion. Gmail’s Archive button only moves a message out of the inbox; it does not delete it. Deleted messages normally remain in Gmail’s Trash for up to 30 days. Outside services and backups have their own rules, so this policy does not promise that every copy disappears after six months.

Send privacy requests to willie@websitesbywillie.com. We will clarify what you need, make reasonable checks that you are the right person and find the relevant copies under our control. We will then handle corrections or deletion while keeping records that need to be retained.

6. Questions about your information

You can ask Willie about the information you have shared, request a correction or ask for eligible copies to be removed.