Privacy on this website

I, Alasdair MacLullich, operate this independent professional website and am responsible for its optional use of Google Analytics. For questions about this notice, please use the current contact details on my University of Edinburgh profile.

This notice covers alasdairmaclullich.com. The organisations and services linked from this website have their own privacy notices.

Information you submit

There is no form on this website, so it does not directly collect names, email addresses, messages or other information from visitors.

Technical records

The site is hosted using GitHub Pages. As with most web hosting, GitHub may process technical information such as IP addresses and browser details for delivery, security and operational purposes. GitHub describes its handling of this information in the GitHub General Privacy Statement.

Cookies and analytics

Limited Google Analytics is on when you first visit so that normal visits are represented in the site's aggregate statistics. It records standard page views, including the page address and title, so that I can understand which pages are visited. Query strings are not sent as page locations. Enhanced measurement, granular location and device collection, Google Signals, advertising and profiling are disabled.

The notice shown on the site gives you an easy, free way to turn analytics off. Doing so removes the Google Analytics cookies that this site can access, records your choice in essential storage and prevents Analytics from loading on later pages. You can use the whole website either way and change your choice through Analytics settings in the footer.

am_analytics_choice

A first-party preference cookie that remembers whether you kept analytics on or turned it off. It lasts for 90 days.

_ga

A limited Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish visits. It lasts for no more than 90 days.

_ga_DEJ9C50DTY

A limited Google Analytics cookie used to maintain session information. It lasts for no more than 90 days.

Review or change analytics choice

Google Analytics is used solely to produce aggregate statistics that help me understand and improve this website. This use relies on the statistical-purposes exception in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations and the legitimate interest in understanding and improving the service. You can object free of charge and turn analytics off at any time through Analytics settings in the footer. Turning it off stops future analytics loading and removes the _ga cookies that this site can access. The preference remains for 90 days so that the site remembers your choice.

Google Analytics event and user data are retained for two months, and that period is not extended when someone returns. Google Signals and advertising-personalisation features are disabled. Google may process analytics data outside the United Kingdom and describes the safeguards it uses in Safeguarding your data and its Privacy Policy.

Your rights

You may ask about personal data connected with this website, object to its use, withdraw consent, or ask for correction or deletion where those rights apply. Please contact me through my University of Edinburgh profile. You can also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office.

Other websites

This website links to external sites, including university, research, professional and public-resource websites. Those services have their own privacy practices. Following a link takes you to a separate website whose operator is responsible for it.

Last updated: 27 July 2026.