This website collects personal data to:

1. Ensure basic functionality (e.g. displaying text fonts)

2. Monitor website traffic and activity to figure out what works (and what doesn't) for you, the visitor.

This includes:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: 

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting platform and analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. This data is analysed in de-personalised form, meaning that it cannot be traced back to you.

Some of this data may also be shared with Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts, as this website serves font files from - and renders fonts using - these third parties. This, in turn, allows for the proper display of text featured on this website.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Some of these cookies are necessary and required for Squarespace's safe delivery of this website to your browser.

Others are analytics and performance cookies and are only placed on your device when you acknowledge our cookie banner. Such cookies are used to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

When you contact Ruth Martin via this website, your information will only be used to respond to your query, or to deliver work requested by yourself (e.g. translations, workshop facilitation).

This website contains external links to the websites of various third parties, e.g. booksellers and publishing houses. To see how they use your visitor data, please consult their privacy terms (usually found at the bottom of their webpages).

As a UK-based website, the website owner's management of your data is subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation. Under this regulation, you, as a visitor of this website, have the following rights when it comes to your data (i.e. the information we collect to run the website, and the information you provide when contacting the website owner):

• Right to rectification - You can tell us to correct information you’ve previously shared with us.

• Right to erasure - You can ask us to delete records of your information.

• Right to restriction of processing - You can tell us to limit our use of your information.

• Right to object to processing - You can ask us to stop using your information.

• Right to data portability - You can ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, or ask that we share our records of your information with someone else.

You can make these requests at no cost to yourself, and we have one month to address each such request.

To complain about how your data is being used

If you are unhappy with how this website has used your data, you can:

• Contact Ruth Martin, the owner of this website, or

• Complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.