Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 September 2026

Who we are

gurgli.com is operated by Chris Denison, trading as Gurgli ("Gurgli", "we", "us"), of 57 Hollow Wood, Olney, Buckinghamshire. We are the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. Email: contact@gurgli.com.

What we collect

When you sign up on gurgli.com, we collect:

• Your email address: the address you enter in the Count me in form
• Your first name, only if you choose to give it: asked once, on the page that opens when you confirm your email address. Leave it blank and nothing changes
• A confirmation code: a random code in the link we email you, so that only someone who can read that inbox can confirm the sign-up
• The date and time you signed up
• How you found us: a short label carried by the link you arrived from (for example a community post, an advertisement we placed, or an email forwarded by a friend). It is a category, not a record of you

That is the whole list. We do not collect your surname, your address, your date of birth, or anything about your health. Nothing on gurgli.com asks you about your reflux.

To protect the form from automated abuse, we also keep a scrambled (hashed) record of the internet connection a sign-up or a confirmation came from. It holds only the times of recent sign-ups or confirmations from that connection; entries more than an hour old are disregarded and discarded. It cannot be turned back into an address and is never stored with your email.

Your email address is the only thing you must give us to sign up. If you do not provide it, you cannot sign up.

You are on the list once you open the link in the email we send you. Until then your address is held as unconfirmed, and we send nothing more to it.

How we use it, and our legal basis

• To email you when Gurgli opens, and with news about Gurgli before then, addressing you by your first name if you gave one. Legal basis: your consent, given when you submit the form (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a); Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, regulation 22). You can withdraw it at any time
• To see which of the places we post in, and which advertisements, bring people to Gurgli. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding how people find Gurgli, using a category label that does not identify you (Article 6(1)(f))
• To keep the sign-up form working and free of spam. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in the security of the site (Article 6(1)(f))

We do not make any decision about you by automated means.

Personal data and anonymised data

We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it with anyone for their own purposes. Your email address goes to no one.

Gurgli will be funded in part by licensing anonymised, aggregated data: what groups of members tried and what happened, in numbers that cannot identify anyone. We say so here so that nobody who joins is surprised by it later. Nothing collected on gurgli.com is health data, and nothing collected on gurgli.com forms part of any licensed dataset. When membership opens, the member privacy policy sets out how that anonymisation is done and the standard it meets.

Advertising and tracking

We may advertise Gurgli on other sites and services. If you arrive from one of those advertisements, the link carries a label saying which one, and that label is the only thing we learn. The advertising platforms receive nothing from gurgli.com: there is no pixel, no tag and no conversion tracking on this site.

gurgli.com itself shows no advertising and uses no analytics.

Third-party services

We use one third-party service to run gurgli.com:

• IONOS: hosts the website and delivers our email. Your sign-up is stored on our IONOS web space and the emails we send you go through IONOS's mail service from countmein@gurgli.com. IONOS processes this data on our instructions only. Data is held in the United Kingdom and the European Union; transfers to the European Union are covered by the UK's adequacy regulations. IONOS's privacy policy is at ionos.co.uk/terms-gtc/privacy-policy.

Who can see it

• Only the people who run Gurgli: your email address, your first name if you gave it, and when and how you signed up
• Nobody else. There are no user profiles, no members' area and no public list on this site

Cookies

None. gurgli.com sets no cookies at all: no login cookie, no tracking cookies, no analytics cookies, no third-party cookies. If you arrive from a link with a tag on the end, the page reads that tag once and sends it with your sign-up. Nothing is stored in your browser.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Rectification: have it corrected if it is wrong
• Erasure: have it deleted
• Restriction: ask us to limit how we use it
• Data portability: receive it in a machine-readable form
• Object to processing based on our legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent at any time; this does not affect processing carried out before you withdrew it
• Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113)

To exercise any of these, email us at contact@gurgli.com. We respond within one month.

Your choices

• You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send, or by emailing contact@gurgli.com. We remove your address, and your first name if you gave it, and confirm when it is done

Data retention

We keep your sign-up until you unsubscribe, or until Gurgli opens and you become a member, at which point the member privacy policy takes over. If Gurgli has not opened within twelve months of your sign-up, we delete it. Entries in the hashed connection record are disregarded and discarded once they are more than an hour old.

Data storage and security

Your sign-up is stored on our web space in a folder that cannot be reached from the public internet. All traffic to gurgli.com is encrypted. Every write to the list is locked so that two sign-ups arriving at once cannot corrupt it. The form rejects malformed addresses and limits how many sign-ups one connection can make in an hour.

Changes to this policy

If we make significant changes to this policy, we will let you know by email before they take effect. The "last updated" date at the top tells you when it was last revised.

Contact

Questions about your data or this policy? Email us at contact@gurgli.com.