Your email, and what I do with it
Last updated 14 August 2026
PeriodDramaHub is a one-person site. There is no marketing team behind it and no data business attached to it, so this page can stay short and say exactly what happens.
What I collect
Only what you type into the signup box:
- Your email address, which is the whole point of the box.
- Your first name, if you feel like giving it. You don't have to, and leaving it blank changes nothing.
I also record which part of the site you signed up from, so I know where people are finding the box. That's it — nothing is sold, and no advertising follows you anywhere.
Counting visits
I use Google Analytics to see how many people come to the site, which pages they look at, and roughly which country they're in. It's the only way I know whether any of this is worth doing — and with a site this small, the difference between three visitors and three hundred changes what I build next.
It tells me numbers, not names. I can see that forty people looked at the 2026 page yesterday; I can't see who they were, and I've no way of connecting a visit to an email address on my list. Google sets a cookie to avoid counting the same person twice, and your address is shortened before it's stored so it doesn't identify your connection.
Two things I've deliberately turned off: no advertising, and no sharing your data with Google for their own purposes. And if your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, this site honours it — you're not counted at all. Most sites ignore that setting. I'd rather have a slightly smaller number and mean what this page says.
What I use it for
To email you now and then about the site — what's been added, what's coming, that sort of thing. Nothing else. Signing up doesn't sign you up to anything else, because there isn't anything else.
How long I keep it
I hold on to your address only for as long as you want the emails. When you unsubscribe, I delete it — I don't keep a quiet copy in the background.
I won't sell it or share it
I will never sell your email address, rent it, swap it, or hand it to anyone for their own use. It sits in the site's own database, which only I can read. The one exception is the ordinary plumbing: the companies that host the site and send the emails necessarily handle the address in order to do that, and they aren't allowed to use it for anything of their own.
Getting off the list
Reply to any email I send you and say so, or send me a message. I'll take you off and delete the address — no reason needed, and I won't email you to ask if you're sure. If you'd rather just see what I hold for you, ask and I'll tell you.
If you're in the UK or Europe
You have the right to ask what I hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted — all of which you can do by sending me a message. And if you're ever unhappy with how I've handled your address, you're entitled to complain to your local data protection regulator (in the UK, that's the ICO).
Your lists and picks stay on your device
Everything else the site remembers about you — the titles you've saved to My 2026, what you've marked as watched, the eras you've picked — is stored in your own browser, not with me. I can't see it. Clearing your browser's site data clears it, and it doesn't travel between your phone and your laptop.
When this page changes
This is the plain-English version for how the site works today. When accounts arrive, more will be involved and this page will be rewritten properly rather than quietly extended. If you're on the list at that point, I'll tell you before anything changes.
Questions, or something here you don't like the look of?
Write to me.
Lydia · PeriodDramaHub