Site policies

Privacy

Check out my privacy policy for information about personal data tracking.

In short, I don’t use any web tracking or analytic services, and do not store any cookies. I may only collect your information if you explicitly give it to me (i.e. sign up for my newsletter).

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all non-code or non-design content by me (Matthew Smith) that I publicly share on this website or in my newsletters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Code snippets by me that I publicly share on this website are subject to the GNU GPL v3 license.

Design work I publicly share on this website is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

If you are interested in sharing or reusing any of my work—online, in print, or anywhere else—check the terms before doing so by clicking the links above, and be sure to check the full text accompanying the content in question for overriding copyright details. I would also appreciate if you get in touch to let me know!

Note that not all content on this site is by me. If you are interested in using or sharing work by other people that I may have included on this site, you must follow up with the relevant copyright holder.

When I share others’ work on this site, I make an effort to ensure it is in fair use and is attributed equitably. If there is something of yours on this site that you don’t feel is appropriately shared, please let me know.

Attributions

I try to add attributions wherever appropriate. When an image isn’t mine, when someone else suggested a book, etc. I don’t like to assume that someone would want their full name on here, so I tend to use initials and/or first name only. I will link the attribution to a person’s personal website if they have one.

If I’ve attributed something to you on my site and you would rather have me refer to you in some other way (your full name, a nickname, a pen name, and so on), just let me know. I’m happy to do so.

Speaking of attributions, most of this document and bits of the privacy policy are derived from Piper Haywood. Parts have been modified to fit this website and my policies.

Additional attributions and credits regarding this site may be found on the colophon.

Accessibility

I make an effort to meet the requirements for WCAG 2.1 level AA compliance. This includes:

• Providing alternative text for all images on the site
• Ensuring that the site is navigable by keyboard
• Setting background and foreground colors for appropriate color contrast
• Using semantic HTML, including HTML5 landmark elements such as <nav> and <main> to improve navigation for assistive technology
• Designing click targets at an appropriate size

If you happen to notice accessibility improvements that I could make for better compliance, such as if I’ve accidentally missed alt text on an image, please let me know.

Marketing queries

As a rule, I do not accept guest posts, requests for backlinks, or SEO-related queries. I don’t tend to respond to these requests.

Note that I’m very happy to receive information about resources and content that you genuinely think I might find interesting! Particularly if it is something you have directly worked on yourself. If it tickles my fancy and is relevant to the sorts of things I’m thinking about at the moment, then it might pop up here at some point in the future. But I beg you, don’t ask me to link to it in a past post.

Monetization

This site does not include ay affiliate links, advertising, memberships, sponsored content, or other methods. If I do ever introduce monetized content of some sort, it will be well-labelled for transparency.

Contact

If you have any questions about any of the above, or anything else for that matter, please get in touch. You can reach me via email at hi@matthewsmith.website or through some of the links listed on my contact page.