Last updated 7 October 2026.
This page explains what seanbair.ai collects, why, and what you can do about it. It is written to be read, not to be survived. If something here is unclear, email me and I will fix the wording.
The short version: I collect very little. I do not sell anything about you to anyone, and I never will. The only time I hold your personal information is when you hand it to me through a form on this site.
This site is run by Sean Bair. For anything on this page, including a request to see or delete your data, write to im@seanbair.ai and I will answer personally.
The site is hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States (region us-west-2). If you are visiting from outside the US, your information is processed in the US.
There are three forms on this site, and they are the only places I ask you for anything.
The contact form on the contact page asks for your name, your email address, and your message. That goes straight to my inbox. It is not added to any list and it is not stored in a database.
The email capture on the books page and the resources page asks for your email address only. Along with it I record which page you signed up from and the date and time, so I know what you were interested in. Those rows live in a private Google Sheet that only I can open.
The trial request for MICHAEL lives on a different site, bairsystems.ai, and is covered by that site's own terms.
Form submissions travel through a workflow service I run myself at n8n.seanbair.ai, on my own server. They are not passed through a third-party form provider.
If you write to me, I write back. If you sign up for a list, I email you about the thing you signed up for, and occasionally about new writing or resources. That is the whole of it.
I do not sell, rent, or trade your information. I do not share it with advertisers. I do not run retargeting pixels; there is no Meta pixel, no LinkedIn tag, and no advertising tracker anywhere on this site.
This site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-L8SVM96BJ7) to count visits and see which pages people actually read. It tells me that forty people opened the field guide last week. It does not tell me who they were.
Google Analytics sets two cookies on your browser, named _ga and _ga_L8SVM96BJ7. They are set when the page loads. Being straight with you: this site does not currently show a consent banner, so if you are in a place where one is expected, you should know that these cookies are set before you have had a chance to say no. I am working on that.
In the meantime, three things that work today. You can block cookies for this site in your browser settings. You can install Google's own Analytics opt-out add-on, which stops the data reaching Google at all. Or you can use a browser or extension that blocks trackers, and nothing here will stop you.
A few things on this site are served by other companies, which means your browser contacts them and they can see your IP address. Named plainly, because you should not have to read the source to find out:
Each of these is a US company with its own privacy policy, and each receives your IP address as a normal part of delivering the file.
My web server keeps standard access logs: the IP address, the page requested, the time, and the browser's user agent string. I use them for security and troubleshooting. They are how I found out this site was getting 191 login attempts in two and a half days, which led to a round of hardening. Logs rotate off the server automatically.
The blog at /blog/ runs on WordPress. Comments are turned off, so there is no comment form collecting anything. I do not use Gravatar.
Emails from the contact form stay in my inbox the way any email does. Signup rows stay in the sheet until you ask to come off the list, at which point I delete the row. Analytics data follows Google's own retention schedule.
If you want to be forgotten, say so and you will be. No forms, no hoops.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see what I hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to get a copy of it, or to object to how it is used. Residents of the European Union and the United Kingdom have these rights under the GDPR. California residents have similar rights under the CCPA and CPRA, including the right to know and the right to delete.
California residents should also know that I do not sell or share personal information as those laws define it, so there is nothing to opt out of on that front.
To use any of these rights, email im@seanbair.ai. I will reply within 30 days and usually much sooner. I will not ask you to prove anything beyond enough to be sure I am talking to the right person.
Reply to any email I send and say stop, or write to im@seanbair.ai. I will remove you and confirm that I have. There is no re-engagement sequence and no attempt to talk you out of it.
This site is written for working professionals and is not directed at children under 13. I do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has sent me information, email me and I will delete it.
The site runs over HTTPS. The forms are gated against automated abuse. Credentials are not stored in the pages you download. No site is perfectly secure, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something, but I take it seriously and I fix things when I find them.
If I change how any of this works, I will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes get a note on the site rather than a quiet edit.
Sean Bair
im@seanbair.ai
seanbair.ai/contact.html