Privacy Notice
How rankthecomedy.com handles personal information.
Last updated: 30 October 2026
This notice explains what personal data rankthecomedy.com collects, why, and how it's handled.
What we collect, and why
Apart from anonymous visit statistics (explained below), we only collect personal data that you actively choose to give us, through one of three places on this site — and we don't collect anything "just in case" it might be useful later.
| Where | What's collected | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newsletter signup | Name (if given) and email address | To send you updates, trailers, and news about RANK | Consent — you opt in, and every email includes an unsubscribe link |
| Contact form | Name, email address, and whatever you write in your message | To respond to your enquiry | Legitimate interest — replying to someone who's contacted us directly |
| Shop (Gumroad) | Handled entirely by Gumroad, not by us | To process your purchase | Contract — see Gumroad's own privacy policy, linked below |
We don't use tracking cookies, and we don't run any advertising scripts on this site. Data collected for one purpose isn't reused for another without asking first — your newsletter email is used only for RANK updates, and a contact-form message is used only to answer that enquiry.
Audience measurement
To see how many people visit the site and which pages and links bring them here, we use Matomo, an open-source analytics tool. We host it ourselves, on the same server in France as this site, so visit data isn't shared with Google or any other third party.
It's set up to measure audiences without identifying anyone:
- No cookies and nothing else is stored on your device.
- Your IP address is shortened before anything is saved (for example 192.168.xxx.xxx), so it can't be traced back to you. It's used only to estimate your country.
- What's recorded: the pages you view, when, the site or link that referred you, your approximate country, and general browser and device type.
- The statistics are used only to understand how the site is used. They're never combined with newsletter, contact or purchase data.
Legal basis: legitimate interest in measuring the site's audience. This set-up follows the conditions under which the French data-protection authority (CNIL) exempts audience measurement from consent.
You can opt out. If you'd rather your visits weren't counted at all, use the option below. Opting out stores one small cookie whose only job is to remember that choice.
Staying in control of your data
Data is never collected without your knowledge — this notice tells you what's collected, why, and what your rights are. Under UK/EU GDPR, you have the right to:
- Ask what personal data we hold about you
- Ask us to correct inaccurate data
- Ask us to delete your data ("right to be forgotten")
- Withdraw consent at any time (e.g. unsubscribing from the newsletter)
- Ask us to export your data in a portable format
- Object to how your data is being used
To exercise any of these rights, get in touch using the contact form on this site, or email us directly at [loading…]. We'll respond as promptly as we can.
How long we keep it
- Newsletter subscribers: kept for as long as you remain subscribed. Unsubscribing removes you from future sends; you can also ask us to fully delete your data at any time.
- Contact form messages: kept only as long as needed to handle your enquiry, then deleted.
- Visit statistics: individual visit records (with the shortened IP address) are deleted automatically after 13 months. Totals derived from them, such as monthly visit counts, contain no personal data and may be kept longer.
- Purchases: retained by Gumroad in line with their own policies and any applicable tax/accounting record-keeping requirements.
Keeping your data secure
This site is served over HTTPS. Our newsletter is managed through Kit, our contact form is processed through Web3Forms, and our shop is handled by Gumroad — each a third-party service responsible for securing the data that passes through them, and each suited to the low-risk, non-sensitive nature of the data involved (names, email addresses, and voluntary messages — no financial or special-category data touches our own systems):
Visit statistics are stored in our own Matomo installation on this site's server; only the RANK team can access them.
Web fonts on this site are self-hosted rather than loaded from Google's font CDN, so visiting this site doesn't share your IP address with Google for that purpose.
Keeping this notice current
As this site changes — new tools, new forms, new third parties — this notice will be reviewed and updated to match. The date above reflects the most recent review.
Reach us via the Contact page, or write to [loading…].