Privacy

You can read this site, use the course and download the guides whether analytics is on or off. You can turn analytics off at any time.

Using this website

Professor Alasdair MacLullich is the operator of Delirium Support and the data controller responsible for personal information processed through this website. For privacy enquiries, email a.maclullich@gmail.com.

Delirium Support is an independent educational website. It has no public user accounts, comments or contact forms. The stories search filter works in your browser and does not send the words you type to the server. Course quiz answers are not sent or stored. The course films are served from this website.

Please do not send identifiable medical information through email or social media. These contact routes are for website questions and corrections, not individual medical advice or emergencies.

Limited analytics

This website uses Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-NCDEPJSCT9, only to produce statistical information about how the website is used and to improve it. Google Analytics may receive information such as pages viewed, referring website, approximate location, browser and device type, and the date and time of a visit. Advertising storage, Google Signals, advertising personalisation and optional sharing of Analytics data with Google are disabled. We do not sell data or use it for advertising.

Limited analytics is on when a page loads unless you have turned it off. For storage and access on your device, the website relies on the statistical purposes exception in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. For any related personal data processing, the lawful basis is the legitimate interest in understanding and improving this free public information service. Turning analytics off does not affect access to the site. Website search results pages do not load analytics. Page addresses sent to Google Analytics keep campaign tags (utm_ parameters) and drop any other query string; referring page addresses are sent without query strings.

Cookies and your choice

Google Analytics uses first-party cookies with names beginning _ga to distinguish visits. Our configuration limits their lifetime to 90 days without extending it on each visit. This cookie lifetime is separate from the retention of information already received by Google.

The Google Analytics property is set to retain user and event data associated with identifiers for 14 months, without resetting that period when a user returns. Standard combined statistical reports are not covered by that 14-month setting.

We remember your analytics choice in this browser for up to 180 days using local storage. Clearing site data or using a different browser may show the choice again, and analytics is then on until you turn it off. This preference storage is used only to honour your choice.

Changing your choice

Choose Analytics settings in the footer of any page, then select Turn analytics off. Objecting is free and does not affect access to the site. The site removes its Google Analytics cookies and reloads the page with analytics disabled. Turning analytics off stops future collection from your browser; it does not automatically erase information already collected. You can turn analytics back on in the same place.

Hosting and technical records

The site is hosted by 10Web and runs on WordPress. Hosting systems process technical information, including IP addresses and requested files, to deliver pages, prevent abuse and investigate faults. These essential operations are separate from optional Google Analytics and continue when analytics is turned off. See 10Web’s privacy policy for information about its processing.

External services and links

While analytics is on, Google processes analytics information on our behalf as a service provider. Its privacy policy explains its processing, international data transfers and safeguards. Other websites linked here have their own privacy practices.

The newsletter link takes you to Alasdair MacLullich’s newsletter on Substack. Subscribing happens on that external service; there is no newsletter sign-up form on this website. Social-media and book links also take you to external services.

Downloads

The PDF and Word guides are files served by this website. The server processes the request to deliver them. Unless you have turned analytics off, a click on a download link may also be recorded by Google Analytics. Information you write in a downloaded guide is not sent back to this website.

Privacy questions and rights

For privacy questions, or to ask about access, correction, deletion or other rights that apply to your information, email a.maclullich@gmail.com. Please describe your request without including identifiable medical information. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or the relevant data-protection authority where you live.