Privacy policy

Date policy last updated: 2 September 2025

I (“Threatologist,” “Dr Mark Youngman,” “my,” “we,” “us,” “our”) care about your privacy. This policy outlines the personal data I collect, how I use it, and why. It also tells you how you can update any of your personal data in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Contact details

Name: Mark Youngman

Email: mark @ threatologist.com

What information I collect

When you indicate an interest in one of my services via email, I collect details relating to the request, including your contact details and your specific requirements.

When you sign up to the newsletter on the website, I ask you to provide some basic personal information. I also ask you to complete a survey. I ask for this information so that I can gain a better understanding of my audience and adjust my service offering to meet your needs. I only collect such information that helps me achieve that goal.

Like most website operators, I also collect non-personal data of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Threatologist website uses essential and analytic cookies to help me identify and track visitors. Essential cookies enable core functionality. The website cannot function properly and securely without them. Analytical cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage, such as which pages you visit and how long you spend on a page. Analytic tools collect internet log and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. If you would like to learn more about cookies generally and how to manage them, please visit allaboutcookies.org.

Some of the cookies I use are temporary and remain in your browser until the end of your session. Others will remain in you browser until they expire or you clear your browser’s history. If you do not want to have a cookie placed on your computer, you should configure your browser to refuse cookies. Please be aware that some features of the website may not work if you do not accept cookies.

If any of my articles embed content from other pages, please also be aware that this behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

My core privacy principles

At Threatologist, I adhere to the following principles:

I collect data about how visitors use the website, how they move between pages, how long they spend on pages, etc. so that I can better understand what content is of interest, adjust my service offering to meet that interest, and improve visitor’s general experience of using the website. I collect data on employment so that I can better understand my customer base and generate customer profiles that will enable me to improve my service offering.

• I only ask for personal data in order to allow me to provide you with the best quality service.
• I will not share your personal data with anyone, unless it is required by law, helps me develop or deliver my services, or protects my rights.

“Personal data” (also known as personal information) is information that can help identify you as an individual. It is defined by GDPR as “any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person” (GDPR Art.4.1).

How I store your personal information

When you indicate an interest in Threatologist services, you provide me with basic information. Some of this information is captured using Kit (when you sign up to a newsletter); some is captured by Notion, Super or Outseta (the three tools used to deliver website content). Other information is provided directly by you via email. Information is either stored directly by the aforementioned tools or securely on Threatologist systems.

If I should in future engage employees and contractors, I will disclose potential and actual personal data to them only if they (a) need to know that information in order to process it on my behalf or provide my services and (b) have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees and contractors may be located outside of your home country; by using this website, you consent to the transfer of information to them. Threatologist will not rent or sell your personal data to anyone. Other than to its employees and contractors, Threatologist will only reveal your personal data in response to a court order, or when Threatologist believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Threatologist, third parties, or the public at large.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access: You have the right to ask me for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask me to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask me to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask me to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask me to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing: You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability: You have the right to ask that I transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, I have one month to respond to you.

Please contact me at mark @ threatologist.com if you wish to make a request.

Business transfers

If Threatologist, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Threatologist goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Threatologist may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Updates to this policy

Threatologist regularly reviews this privacy policy and updates this page. The date when this page was last updated can be found at the top.

Make a complaint

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to me at mark @ threatologist.com.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data. The ICO’s address is: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Helpline number: 0303 123 1113. ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk.