Privacy, licence and who publishes this

Short, because this site keeps very little. What it keeps is set out below in full.

This page covers the website and the imprint. Buying a book is a separate contract with a separate seller, and its terms — delivery, refunds, the right to cancel — are on the terms for Computing Careers 2026.

What this website collects

For reading, nothing. Every page here can be read without an account, without an email address and without a cookie. Nothing is recorded about what you read. There are no analytics, no advertising and no tracking scripts.

Two things your browser remembers, and this site never sees. If you switch to the dark theme, your browser remembers the choice. And on your first visit a bar at the bottom of the page offers the newsletter, once; your browser remembers that it did, and whether you closed it, so it does not ask again. Both are kept in your browser’s own storage, not in a cookie, are never sent to this site, and go when you clear this site’s data in your browser.

The rest applies only if you choose to use it.

The newsletter. If you subscribe, the site keeps your email address and whether you confirmed it. Nothing is sent until you follow the link in the confirmation email. The newsletter is sent through Resend, an email service, which holds the address for that purpose alone under its privacy policy. Every issue ends with a link that takes you off the list in one click. After that the address is kept only as unsubscribed, so it cannot be added back without you confirming again; ask and it is deleted outright.

An account. An account exists for commenting, for managing the newsletter and for a membership, and for nothing else. It holds your email address and the name you choose to comment under. There is no password: you sign in with a link emailed to you through Resend, which works once, for fifteen minutes. Signing in sets one cookie, called __Host-session, which keeps you signed in for thirty days and does nothing else. Your account page deletes everything — the account, your comments and your subscription — in one step.

A membership. If you become a member, Dodo Payments sells it to you and bills you, as for the book, and holds your payment details; this site never sees them. The site keeps what Dodo reports about the membership: its plan, its state, when it renews or ends, Dodo’s references for it and for you as a customer, and the address it was bought with. The Fine Print is emailed to that address every Friday through Resend while you are a member, and stops when the membership ends; so are the notices the membership owes you (the confirmation when you join, a reminder before a yearly renewal or once a year, and a confirmation if you cancel). Deleting your account cancels the membership at Dodo first and then deletes what is kept here.

Comments. What you write, the post it is under, and the account that wrote it. The name you chose is shown beside it; your email address never is. A first comment is read by the editor before it appears, and so is any comment a reader reports.

The bot check. The sign-in and newsletter forms can send an email to any address typed into them, so they are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which tells people from automated sign-ups. It is the only script this site loads from another company’s servers, it runs on those two pages and no others, and Cloudflare’s privacy policy governs it. (The book page’s checkout script is Dodo’s, but served from this site, and run only when you press Buy the book: see below.)

That is why there is still no cookie banner. The one cookie is set only when you ask to sign in, and it does only what you asked for.

Two more things worth stating plainly:

If you buy a book, Dodo Payments collects your email address in order to sell it to you and to deliver it. Dodo’s privacy policy governs that. Pressing Buy the book opens Dodo’s checkout in a frame over the book page, or on Dodo’s own site if that cannot open. Either way it is Dodo’s page, served by Dodo: what you type into it goes to Dodo and never reaches this site. When Dodo sends you back here afterwards, it adds your payment’s status and your email address to the page’s address; this site drops the email address at once, by sending your browser on to the same page without it, and keeps neither. Corrections are sent to that address, because that promise cannot be kept otherwise.
If you write to us, we have your email, because that is what email is. It is used to answer you and for nothing else. It is not added to a list, not sold and not shared. Ask and it is deleted.

Our host, Cloudflare, serves the site, stores the database that holds accounts, subscriptions and comments, and processes server logs to deliver the site and defend it from attack, as any host must.

Why each is kept, and on what grounds

Data protection law asks for the reason in the law’s own words, so here it is:

What	Why	The ground
Your newsletter address	To send the newsletter you asked for	Your consent, given by confirming, and withdrawn by unsubscribing
Your account, and your comments	To sign you in and show what you wrote	Providing what you asked for when you made the account
A membership, and its emails	To give you what you pay for, and to tell you what the terms promise	The contract a membership is
Server logs, the bot check, the rate limit	To keep the site running and stop abuse	Legitimate interests: a site that can be attacked cannot stay up
Payment and tax records	To sell to you and account for the tax	Dodo’s, as the seller, under the law that applies to it

Nothing is used for advertising, nothing is sold, and nothing is shared for anybody else’s marketing. No decision about you is made by a machine.

Who else handles it

Three companies, each for one job, each bound to use it for that job alone:

Cloudflare hosts the site and its database, and runs the bot check.
Resend sends the emails: sign-in links, the newsletter, The Fine Print and the membership notices.
Dodo Payments sells the book and memberships, as the seller, and is responsible for the payment data it collects under its own privacy policy.

They process data in the United States and in other countries. Where the law of your country asks for safeguards when data leaves it, they provide them, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

How long it is kept

An account and its comments: until you delete the account, which your account page does in one step.
A newsletter address: while you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe it is kept marked as unsubscribed, only so that it is never added back without you; ask and it is deleted.
A membership’s record: while your account exists. Dodo keeps payment and tax records for as long as the law requires it to.
Sign-in links last fifteen minutes and sessions thirty days.
Emails you send us: until the matter is closed, then deleted.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask to see what is kept about you, to have it corrected, to have a copy, or to have it deleted, and you can object to any use of it or withdraw your consent. Most of it your account page does at once; for the rest, write to corrections@gradeone.press. It is answered within a month and never charged for.

If you think your data has been mishandled, tell us first if you like, and you can always complain to the data protection authority where you live: in the United Kingdom the Information Commissioner’s Office, in the European Union your country’s authority, and in India the Data Protection Board.

Children

The site is written for adults. An account needs you to be 16 or over, and a membership 18 or over, or younger with a parent’s or guardian’s permission. If a child has made an account without it, write and it is deleted.

Who publishes this

Grade One Press, an imprint. It is not a company, a partnership or a registered society, and it is not a person’s name either. What it is, and why the work carries an imprint rather than a byline, is set out on the about page.

Reach it at corrections@gradeone.press. A real person reads it.

The imprint is called Grade One Press. Edition 1.0.0’s files, and the archived record they were deposited under, carry the shorter form, because a published file is not quietly restated after the fact. The two names are the same publisher, and the next edition will carry the longer one.

Copyright and licence

Two different things, deliberately.

What is published free — the source bibliography, the gap register and the role index, and every dataset released here in future — is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Copy it, republish it, adapt it, build on it, sell something built on it. The only condition is credit. Details and downloads.

A publisher arguing that evidence should be checkable is a strange place to put the evidence behind a permissions process, which is the whole reason for the split.

Third-party material inside the data is credited where it comes from. O*NET, published by the United States Department of Labor, and ESCO, published by the European Commission, are used under CC BY 4.0. Neither body has reviewed or endorsed the work published here.

Accuracy

Every story published here is traced to the document it comes from, and every source carries its grade and the date it was read. What the research could not establish is listed rather than estimated.

That is a description of method, not a warranty of outcome. This is reporting and reference work, not personal financial, legal, investment or career advice, and no decision you make from it is guaranteed by anyone. Facts and figures age; that is why each source is dated.

Changes to this page

Material changes are dated here. Changes that affect a book are also recorded in the revision log of the edition they affect.

Last updated 29 September 2026, when memberships and The Fine Print, the members’ weekly email, were added, with the grounds for each use of your data, who else handles it, how long it is kept, and your rights. 26 September 2026: the site gained accounts, comments and a newsletter.