Privacy

What this site records about a visit, who handles it, why, and for how long. Every flow is listed, including ones that are planned or stopped.

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I'm Mackenzie Bowes, in Canada, and I'm responsible for this site and the data below. Write to mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com.

Last checked against the site on 2026-10-19.

Every visit, from a person or an agent

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: A person or an agent asks this site for a page or a file.
What is taken: Your IP address; your browser's user agent; the address of the page; and your country, worked out from your IP address.
Who handles it: Cloudflare. Its own policy: Cloudflare privacy policy.
Who else gets it: Nobody else.
Why: Cloudflare hosts the site, so it handles every request: it sends the page and blocks attacks.
On what basis: Legitimate interest: keeping the site online and safe.
How long it is kept: Cloudflare decides how long. Read its policy.
Where: Cloudflare decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts only this site.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

Email you send me

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: You send an email to the address above.
What is taken: Your email address and what you write.
Who handles it: Google Workspace. Its own policy: Google Workspace privacy policy.
Who else gets it: Anthropic (Claude) (an AI assistant working for me reads my inbox to sort mail and draft replies).
Why: I read your message and answer it. I don't add you to a list.
On what basis: Legitimate interest: answering people who write to me.
How long it is kept: Until you ask me to delete it, or I do.
Where: Google Workspace decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts nothing because of this flow.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

The catch-up bookkeeping waitlist

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: You send an email to the address above.
What is taken: Your email address and what you write.
Who handles it: Google Workspace. Its own policy: Google Workspace privacy policy.
Who else gets it: Anthropic (Claude) (an AI assistant working for me reads waitlist emails to count sign-ups and send the confirmation).
Why: When you email mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com with the subject "Catch-up waitlist", I reply to confirm you're on the list, then send one email when catch-up bookkeeping opens, and nothing else.
On what basis: Your consent. Ask me by email at any time and I'll take you off the list.
How long it is kept: Until catch-up bookkeeping opens and I've sent that one email, or until you ask me to take you off the list.
Where: Google Workspace decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts nothing because of this flow.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

The close kit waitlist

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: You send an email to the address above.
What is taken: Your email address and what you write.
Who handles it: Google Workspace. Its own policy: Google Workspace privacy policy.
Who else gets it: Anthropic (Claude) (an AI assistant working for me reads waitlist emails to count sign-ups and send the confirmation).
Why: When you email mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com with the subject "Close kit waitlist", I reply to confirm you're on the list, then send one email when the close kit opens, and nothing else.
On what basis: Your consent. Ask me by email at any time and I'll take you off the list.
How long it is kept: Until the close kit opens and I've sent that one email, or until you ask me to take you off the list.
Where: Google Workspace decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts nothing because of this flow.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

The onboarding kit waitlist

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: You send an email to the address above.
What is taken: Your email address and what you write.
Who handles it: Google Workspace. Its own policy: Google Workspace privacy policy.
Who else gets it: Anthropic (Claude) (an AI assistant working for me reads waitlist emails to count sign-ups and send the confirmation).
Why: When you email mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com with the subject "Onboarding kit waitlist", I reply to confirm you're on the list, then send one email when the onboarding kit opens, and nothing else.
On what basis: Your consent. Ask me by email at any time and I'll take you off the list.
How long it is kept: Until the onboarding kit opens and I've sent that one email, or until you ask me to take you off the list.
Where: Google Workspace decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts nothing because of this flow.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

Page counts at the edge, for people and agents

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: A person or an agent asks this site for a page or a file.
What is taken: Your IP address, your browser's user agent, the address of the page and the page you came from.
Who handles it: Run by me on Cloudflare, at www.bookkeepingforsmallbusiness.com. It is kept in a place Cloudflare decides (its policy).
Who else gets it: Nobody else.
Why: When a page, a page's Markdown twin or llms.txt is requested, the site's own code adds one to a count for that day, that page, the ?ref= tag, the site that sent you, and what kind of visitor asked (a browser, or an agent such as GPTBot or Claude, named from its user agent). It checks an agent's IP address against the list its company publishes, to tell a real agent from one pretending. It keeps only the count: no IP address, no user agent text, no cookie, no ID. I use it because agents don't run scripts, so this is the only way to see them.
On what basis: Legitimate interest: learning which posts reach people and agents.
How long it is kept: Until I delete the counts. They are totals and can't be traced to you.
Where: Cloudflare decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts only this site.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

Page visit counts

Running since 2026-10-19.

When it happens: A page is viewed.
What is taken: The address of the page and the page you came from.
Who handles it: Run by me on Cloudflare, at www.bookkeepingforsmallbusiness.com. It is kept in a place Cloudflare decides (its policy).
Who else gets it: Nobody else.
Why: When a page loads, it tells me the page, the ?ref= tag on the link if there is one, and which site sent you. I add one to a count for that day, that page, that tag and that site, and keep nothing else about the visit: no IP address, no browser details, no cookie, no ID. I use it to learn which posts bring readers. Browsers that send Do Not Track send nothing.
On what basis: Legitimate interest: learning which posts reach readers.
How long it is kept: Until I delete the counts. They are totals and can't be traced to you.
Where: Cloudflare decides where. Read its policy.
What your browser does: Your browser contacts only this site.
What it stores on your device: Nothing.

What you can ask for

You can ask to see what is held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted. Email mackenzie@mackenziebowes.com. There is no form and no account.

If you are an agent

A request from an agent is a request like any other. It leaves what the flows above list for that trigger, and nothing more. A person's request leaves the same.

Copies for agents

This page also exists as markdown and as JSON-LD, which uses W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary terms. The page, its markdown copy and its JSON copy are all built from one list, so they say the same thing.