Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 22, 2026

Maple & Marker writes about home education, handwriting practice and early learning. This policy explains the data side of visiting markerlane.com in plain terms.

Our Audience and Age

The content and the site are for adults. Children under 13, or under 16 depending on jurisdiction, are not the intended audience, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. Discovering that we had would prompt deletion.

Retention Periods

Data lifespans are tied to purpose — analytics on the provider’s expiry schedule, email addresses until you leave the list, comments until they are taken down. Protection is by way of restricted access and encrypted transport, applied proportionately. No online service can be perfectly secure.

Email We Send

Newsletter subscriptions use double opt-in verification. Unsubscribe links appear in all email along with our postal address, removal is instant, and subscriber addresses are not rented, sold, or handed to third parties for their own marketing.

Control You Have

Subject to your location, you may request access to your data, its correction or deletion, a portable copy, or restriction of its use, and you may opt out of sale or sharing for advertising. These entitlements flow from the UK/EU GDPR and from US state law including the CCPA/CPRA. Global Privacy Control signals are respected automatically. See our State Privacy Notice and Do Not Sell or Share.

Grounds for Use

The data supports four things — keeping markerlane.com online and secure, understanding readership patterns in aggregate, sending email people have asked for, and underpinning any advertising on the site.

Third-Party Services

This site may involve a hosting provider, an analytics provider, an email service (only if you subscribe), and advertising partners (only where advertising is served). Some process data strictly on our behalf; advertising and analytics vendors typically act as controllers in their own right.

Browser Storage

Rather than duplicate it here, cookie detail lives in our Cookie Policy.

Where advertising is served, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.

Categories of Data

• Information reaches us in two ways. Automatically, through server logs and any analytics tool in use — IP address, device, browser, referrer, and which of our worksheets, planners and printable packs were opened. Directly, through anything you fill in: a newsletter box, a comment form, or an email.
• One thing worth stating plainly for a site about home education, handwriting practice and early learning: downloads are served without asking for a child’s name, age, year group, or any assessment result, and we do not build learner profiles from download activity.

Where to Write

You can reach us at hello@markerlane.com about this policy or to exercise any right described in it.