Just Ian
Privacy policy
This is the privacy policy for Just Ian, Ian Robertson’s personal photography website at justian.narian.org.uk. Ian Robertson owns and operates the site and controls its domain.
Just Ian is not a social-media service. It does not provide public user accounts, user uploads, comments, messaging, follower relationships or social feeds.
Contact enquiries
The contact form asks for your name, email address, reason for contact, message, and consent to use those details to respond. A plain-text copy is sent to Ian by email.
Successful submissions and delivery failures are stored for administrative follow-up. They are normally retained for up to 90 days, then removed by a scheduled retention process. Ian can delete them earlier through the restricted administration area.
The site does not store your raw IP address with the enquiry. It stores a secret-keyed, one-way hash of the canonicalised address to enforce rate limits. Malformed or missing addresses share a fail-safe rate-limit identity.
Operational logs
Application logs record operational events such as delivery failures without including complete contact messages, email addresses, or IP hashes. Web-server and reverse-proxy logs may record request metadata such as the requested path, time, response status, browser information, and source address for security and diagnosis. Their retention is managed as part of the hosting service.
Analytics and tracking
This site uses Ian’s self-hosted, cookieless Matomo service to understand aggregate page views and outbound-link activity. Tracking cookies, user identifiers, advertising features, cross-domain tracking, and URL query strings are not used. The Matomo service anonymises visitor IP addresses and removes raw visitor data according to its configured retention schedule.
The site respects browser Do Not Track settings by not loading Matomo when that preference is active.
Matomo is loaded asynchronously and is not required to view or navigate the site.
The site also keeps its own daily aggregate counts of public set-page views and photographs opened in the full-screen viewer or individual photograph page. These counters do not store IP addresses, cookies, session identifiers, referrers, browser details or individual visit records. A reload may count as another view.
The site does not use Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Pinterest conversion tags, advertising trackers, or third-party tracking pixels.
Cookies
The public contact form uses a first-party CSRF security cookie to protect submissions. Administrative sign-in uses first-party session and CSRF cookies. The site does not set analytics or advertising cookies.
External content and sharing
The site does not embed social-media widgets or remote tracking content. External projects and social services are linked with ordinary links. Simply viewing a page does not send information to those services; following an external link places your visit under that service’s own privacy practices.
Where Ian has enabled a “Save to Pinterest” link for a photograph, activating it opens Pinterest with the set’s canonical address, a public derivative image address, and a description. Those details are sent to Pinterest only when you follow the link; the site does not load Pinterest scripts, pixels, or conversion tracking.
Any social post prepared from this site is separate from the public reading experience and links visitors back to Just Ian. The site does not require a social account and does not load social-platform scripts to display photographs.
Pinterest publishing integration
The restricted administration area may publish to Ian’s Pinterest business account when a Pinterest access token and destination board identifier have been placed in Just Ian’s protected server environment by the site administrator. Just Ian does not provide a Pinterest sign-in, OAuth connection, board-selection or disconnection screen, and it does not collect or store a Pinterest password, browser cookie or session cookie.
When the integration is enabled, Just Ian creates a Pin only after Ian explicitly reviews the recommendation and chooses “Publish to Pinterest”. The information sent to Pinterest may include the configured board identifier, photograph’s public derivative image address, editorial title, description, alternative text and canonical Just Ian page address.
The integration is available only within the restricted administration area. Public visitors cannot connect Pinterest accounts or publish content through Just Ian. Pins are not created automatically merely because a photograph or photographic set is published on Just Ian.
The access token and board identifier are read from protected runtime configuration. They are not stored in the site database, rendered into pages, included in publication history or disclosed to public visitors. Removing that runtime configuration disables Pinterest API publishing.
Once information has been sent to Pinterest, Pinterest processes it under Pinterest’s own terms and privacy practices.
Private editorial assistance
Optional administrator-only tools can send metadata-stripped derivative photographs and existing editorial context to a configured artificial-intelligence provider for private title, introduction, caption, controlled-keyword, sequence, lead-photograph and exclusion suggestions. They are disabled by default, never send protected originals or GPS metadata, and do not run when a visitor views the site. Suggestions are not published or applied automatically.
Privacy requests
To ask about information submitted through this site, or request correction or early deletion, contact Ian. Include enough information to identify the enquiry without placing additional sensitive information in the message.