Privacy: So this email was sent using my own home grown marketing platform consisting of my private email server, a customer relationship management application I created, along with whatever other scripts and such I've written or adopted from open source over the years. Like most other commercial tools that send email for businesses and individuals, my system holds some data about you, the recipient of this email. This likely includes your name and email, maybe your phone number and possibly some notes or information we've exchanged while meeting or working together in some capacity. And like those other commercial email platforms, I monitor email deliverability and record your "engagement" i.e. opens, clicks, preferences and opt-out status. As a web developer, I do a lot to maintain the security of my systems. In fact, since I build my servers from scratch and run the whole show on encryption, security strategy, etc, I'm the only person with legitimate permison to access your data. That said, I use a large reputable third party to manage my hardware connection to the internet as well as backups which creates a potential access point. It's also possible for hackers to try to pry things open through any number of vulnerabilities that you hear about in the news. Lastly, I could make some stupid mistake or get hit by a bus leaving your information open in some unforeseen way. So, if you're really flipped out by this, contact me. I can show you the data I have attached to you and delete it upon your request from my database. Keep in mind however, information is being collected about everyone all the time, mostly by corporations motivated solely by profit. I think it's kinda scary and I'm therefore respectful of what I collect and how I use it. For example, I don't sell your data to anyone and I avoid storing sensitive information like credit card numbers. I don't run session replay scripts on my web sites that capture video of your computer screen and I typically provide attribution to outbound links so you can know what sites your being directed to if you want to check out their privacy statements. I am interested in what emails get opened as I don't want to send emails indefinitely that aren't of interest to you. I also may look at the links you've clicked on from my emails. Maybe that's creepy, but it's a pretty typical practice to understand what you, the recipient takes interest in for shaping more relevant communications in the future. In this case, I'm ultimately trying to establish your trust in me while promoting the services/products I have to offer by sharing stuff that's of interest to me and hopefully of value to you. Thanks for reading my privacy policy statement. Please contact me if questions.