Privacy Policy
Remote in Real Life (accessible at remoteinrealife.com) is a practical remote-work blog written for people who want dependable technology, clearer collaboration, and healthier digital boundaries — without turning their living rooms into corporate command centers. Because we spend so much time writing about digital boundaries, it would be strange if we did not take yours seriously. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit remoteinrealife.com, why we collect it, who we share it with, and what choices you have.
This policy applies to the website remoteinrealife.com and to any newsletters, comment features, or contact forms we operate under the Remote in Real Life name. It does not apply to third-party websites we link to in our articles — if an article sends you to a software vendor, hardware review, or documentation page, that site's own privacy policy governs what happens there.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Give Us Directly
Most of Remote in Real Life can be read without giving us anything at all. You only share personal information when you choose to interact with us. That may include:
Email address — if you subscribe to our newsletter or reply to a post by email.
Name or display name — if you leave a comment or fill out a contact form.
Message content — the text of whatever you send us, including questions about tools, workflows, or article corrections.
Optional details — such as a website URL, job role, or team size, if you volunteer them in a survey or reader question.
We ask only for what we actually need. If a form on remoteinrealife.com requests something, it is because we need it to reply to you or deliver the thing you asked for.
Information Collected Automatically
Like virtually every website, remoteinrealife.com records certain technical information automatically when your browser requests a page. This typically includes your IP address (often truncated or anonymized), browser type and version, operating system, device type, the page you requested, the referring page, and the date and time of the request. This data helps us keep the site running, diagnose errors, and understand which articles are actually useful.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser. Remote in Real Life uses a limited set of them:
Essential cookies — required for basic functions such as remembering your cookie preferences, maintaining security, or keeping a comment form from losing your text.
Preference cookies — remember choices such as light or dark reading mode, or whether you have dismissed a notice.
Analytics cookies — help us count visits and understand general reading patterns in aggregate.
You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings at any time. Essential cookies aside, blocking them will not prevent you from reading anything on remoteinrealife.com; some conveniences may simply reset on each visit. We honor browser-level signals such as Global Privacy Control where technically supported.
Analytics
We use website analytics to see which topics resonate — for example, whether readers prefer posts about asynchronous communication or about home network reliability. Analytics data is reviewed in aggregate. We do not attempt to identify individual readers, build advertising profiles, or follow you around the web. Where our analytics provider offers privacy-protective settings such as IP anonymization and shortened data retention, we enable them.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information described above for a small number of clearly defined purposes:
To operate, maintain, and secure remoteinrealife.com.
To respond to your questions, corrections, tips, and feedback.
To send our newsletter or updates, if and only if you asked for them.
To understand which articles are read and shared, so we can write more of what helps.
To detect, prevent, and investigate spam, abuse, scraping, and security incidents.
To comply with legal obligations that apply to us.
We do not sell your personal information, rent it, or trade it. We do not use your email address to target you with third-party advertising, and we do not share reader lists with other publishers.
3. Legal Bases for Processing
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with comparable rules, our legal bases for processing your personal data are: consent (for newsletters and non-essential cookies), legitimate interests (for site security, basic analytics, and responding to correspondence), and legal obligation (where a law requires us to retain or disclose information). Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting processing that already occurred.
4. Third Parties and Service Providers
Running even a modest blog requires a handful of service providers. Remote in Real Life may share limited information with:
Hosting and content delivery providers, which process server requests and technical logs in order to deliver remoteinrealife.com to your browser.
Email and newsletter platforms, which store subscriber addresses and delivery statistics.
Analytics providers, which process aggregated usage statistics.
Anti-spam and security services, which review comment and form submissions.
These providers act on our instructions and are contractually limited to using the data for the services they provide to us. We may also disclose information where legally required — for instance, in response to a valid legal process — or where necessary to protect the rights, safety, or property of our readers or of Remote in Real Life. If the site is ever transferred to new ownership, reader data may transfer as part of that transaction, and we will post notice on remoteinrealife.com before any material change in how information is handled.
Embedded and External Content
Some articles embed external content such as videos, code samples, or social media posts. Embedded content behaves as if you had visited the third-party site directly and may set its own cookies or collect usage data. We keep embeds to a minimum precisely because they expand your exposure beyond what we control.
5. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as it serves the purpose it was collected for:
Newsletter subscriptions — until you unsubscribe, plus a short suppression record so we do not accidentally re-add you.
Contact messages — generally up to 24 months, so we can follow up on ongoing conversations and corrections.
Comments — retained while published; removed on request.
Server logs — typically retained for a short period (usually no more than 90 days) for security and troubleshooting.
Aggregated analytics — retained in non-identifying form for long-term trend analysis.
6. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding personal data held by Remote in Real Life:
Access — request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Correction — ask us to fix information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
Deletion — ask us to erase your personal information, subject to any legal retention duties.
Restriction and objection — ask us to limit or stop certain processing, including processing based on legitimate interests.
Portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Withdrawal of consent — unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter, or by contacting us.
Non-discrimination — we will never degrade your experience on remoteinrealife.com because you exercised a privacy right.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 10. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law, typically within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity — usually by confirming control of the email address associated with the request — before acting.
7. Children's Privacy
Remote in Real Life is written for working adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16 (or the minimum age set by local law). If you believe a child has submitted personal information to remoteinrealife.com, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.
8. International Data Transfers
Remote work is global, and so are our readers. The servers and service providers that power remoteinrealife.com may be located in countries other than your own, including the United States. Where personal data is transferred across borders, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, or equivalent mechanisms offered by our providers. By using the site or subscribing, you understand that your information may be processed in these jurisdictions.
9. Security Measures
We protect reader information with reasonable technical and organizational measures, including encrypted connections (HTTPS) across remoteinrealife.com, restricted administrative access, strong authentication for site accounts, regular software updates, and deliberate data minimization — the simplest safeguard being that we do not collect information we do not need. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach occurs that affects your personal data, we will notify affected readers and relevant authorities as required by law.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as the site evolves, as our tools change, or as privacy law develops. The revised version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Material changes — for example, adopting a new category of data collection — will be announced prominently on remoteinrealife.com and, where appropriate, by email to subscribers. Continued use of the site after an update means you accept the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
Questions, access requests, deletion requests, or concerns about how Remote in Real Life handles your data are genuinely welcome. You can reach us through the contact form on remoteinrealife.com. Please describe your request clearly and use the email address associated with your subscription or message so we can locate the right records.
If you are in the EEA or UK and believe we have not resolved your concern adequately, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. We would appreciate the chance to address the issue directly first.
We built Remote in Real Life around the idea that technology should fit into your life rather than take it over. Handling your data carefully — and collecting as little of it as possible — is part of keeping that promise.