What we do with your data

The short version: very little. This site has no accounts, no comment forms and no mailing list. We set no cookies and run no analytics or advertising trackers.

Who is responsible

How It Was Recorded is run by Middal Services Ltd, the data controller for this site. Write to hello@howitwasrecorded.com.

What is processed when you visit

The site is hosted by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel’s servers receive your IP address, your browser and device details and the page you asked for, and keep short-lived logs of them so that pages can be delivered and abuse blocked. We do not combine these logs with anything else or use them to identify you. The lawful basis is our legitimate interest in running a working, secure site.

If you email us, we keep your message for as long as it takes to deal with it and for our records afterwards.

Links to shops

Plugin links pass through a redirect on this site and then leave for the maker’s or a retailer’s website. Hardware links go straight to Amazon. We do not record who clicks. Once you arrive, the other site’s own privacy policy applies.

None of these is an affiliate link at present. When that changes, the address you are sent to will carry a code that tells the shop the visit came from us, and the shop may set a cookie on its own site. This page and the note beside the links will say so.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and object to how it is used. Email the address above. If you are unhappy with the answer you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Last updated 15 Nov 2026.