Privacy & Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 23, 2026
This policy explains what personal data themindalchemist.com collects, why, who receives it and what your rights are. We collect as little as we can: most pages, the reader bonuses and the downloads work without giving us any personal data.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is Francesco Adamo, Viale Europa Unita 50, 98079 Tusa (ME), Italy. For any privacy question or request, write to support@themindalchemist.com.
2. What we collect and why
| Data | When | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email address (and name, if you enter it) | Only if you request an optional extra or join a reader list through a sign-up form | To send what you requested and occasional reader updates | Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time with the unsubscribe link |
| Your message and email address | When you write to us | To answer you, for example about a possible error in a book | Our legitimate interest in answering readers |
| Usage data (pages visited, device, approximate location, cookies) | Only if you accept analytics cookies in the banner | To understand which pages are useful and improve them | Your consent |
| Technical data (IP address, browser, time of request) | Every visit, in the server logs | Security and correct operation of the site | Our legitimate interest in keeping the site safe |
Reader bonuses, study plans, errata pages and downloads never require an email address. We do not sell your personal data and we do not use it for automated decisions or profiling.
3. Who receives your data
We use trusted service providers who process data on our behalf and only for the purposes above:
- Website hosting: stores the site and its server logs.
- Google (Google Analytics, through Site Kit, only with your consent; Google Fonts, which loads the fonts of the page and receives your IP address).
- MailerLite and Brevo: manage sign-up forms and reader emails.
- Weglot: translates the pages into other languages.
Some of these providers are based outside the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States. In those cases the transfer is covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or by the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.
4. How long we keep it
- Email list: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete your data.
- Emails you send us: up to 24 months after the conversation ends.
- Analytics data: up to 14 months.
- Server logs: for the period set by the hosting provider, usually a few weeks.
5. Cookies
| Type | Examples | Purpose | Consent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | Cookie-consent choice, language preference | Remember your choices and make the site work | Not required |
| Analytics | Google Analytics (_ga, _ga_*) | Anonymous statistics on how pages are used | Only if you accept |
You can accept, refuse or change your choice at any time from the cookie banner, and you can delete cookies from your browser settings. Refusing analytics cookies does not limit any part of the site.
6. Your rights
You can ask to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format. You can withdraw consent at any time, without affecting what was done before. Write to support@themindalchemist.com and we will answer within 30 days.
If you are in the European Union, you can also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority (in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, garanteprivacy.it). If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect and to ask for its deletion; we do not sell or share personal information as defined by the CCPA.
7. Children
This site is meant for adults and older students preparing for exams. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, write to us and we will delete it.
8. Links to other services
Our pages link to services with their own privacy policies, such as Amazon, Telegram and the online exam simulators hosted on Netlify. The exam simulators do not ask for an account or an email and keep your progress only in your own browser.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.