Effective date: the twenty-fourth of October, 2026
The Data Decision Notes, published at teradataepicawards.com, values transparency in data handling as much as it values it in analytics. This Privacy Notice describes the personal data processed when you use the site, the reasons for processing, and the controls available to you.
Section 1: About the Publication
The Data Decision Notes is an independent informational blog covering AI strategy, business intelligence dashboards and data analytics. Despite the word “Consulting” in its name, the site does not sell consulting or any other service. It hosts no user accounts, no shop and no payment processing, and it publishes no newsletter.
References in this Notice to “we” and “us” mean the operator of teradataepicawards.com. The Notice covers this site only. External resources cited in articles, including BI platforms, cloud vendors and research publishers, maintain separate privacy terms.
Section 2: Data Inventory
2.1 Information you provide
The site accepts correspondence solely through the form on the contact page. The form fields are name, email address and message. No email address, telephone number or postal address is published for the site.
Please do not attach or paste datasets, dashboard exports or confidential business records into the form. We have no need for them, and a contact form is not a suitable channel for such material.
2.2 Information collected through technology
Following consent, Google Analytics might gather page views, session duration, traffic source, browser and device characteristics, and approximate geography derived from IP address. Embedded YouTube players generate further cookies from YouTube and Google whenever a player loads or plays.
2.3 Information we do not collect
The site does not request payment card data, government identifiers, account credentials or any special category of personal data.
Section 3: Processing Purposes
- Correspondence: handling and answering contact form submissions.
- Audience measurement: producing aggregate statistics on readership, subject to consent.
- Monetisation: operating affiliate redirects which fund the publication.
- Legal compliance: meeting obligations imposed by applicable law.
Data collected for one of these purposes is not repurposed for an unrelated one. Analytics output is reviewed only in aggregate form, never to profile an individual reader.
The lawful grounds differ by activity. Audience measurement relies on the consent recorded through the banner. Correspondence and affiliate routing rely on the operator’s legitimate interest in answering readers and in funding an independent publication, balanced against reader privacy. Compliance activity rests on legal obligation. No processing on this site involves automated decision-making which produces legal or similarly significant effects for a reader.
Section 4: Consent Management
A cookie consent banner is displayed to new visitors and blocks non-essential cookies until a choice is recorded. Visitors who decline retain complete access to the content. Consent is revocable at any time via the banner, and revocation applies from the moment it is made. Browser-level controls provide an additional means of deleting or refusing cookies.
Section 5: Affiliate Relationships
5.1 Mechanism
Revenue for teradataepicawards.com comes from affiliate commissions, chiefly through Fiverr. Affiliate links resolve through on-site redirect URLs following the pattern /go/…, which forward the visitor to the partner’s website.
5.2 Partner responsibility
Once a visitor reaches the partner, the partner deploys its own cookies, and its published privacy policy and terms of service determine how visitor data is treated there. The site has no access to, or control over, those processes.
5.3 Pricing neutrality
Commissions are paid by the partner and do not increase the price paid by the visitor. A complete account appears on the disclosure page.
5.4 Data captured at redirect
The redirect step presents no form and requests nothing from the visitor. It serves to route traffic and to credit the referral to the site. Project briefs, files or business data entered after arrival at Fiverr fall entirely under the partner’s governance, and readers are advised to remove confidential or regulated data from anything shared with a freelancer.
Section 6: Recipients
Personal data is not sold. Recipients are limited to infrastructure and analytics providers processing data in the course of operating the site, and to authorities where disclosure is legally mandated. Each recipient handles data under its own contractual and legal obligations.
Section 7: Retention and Safeguards
Contact submissions are kept only for as long as the related correspondence requires, then removed. Analytics records follow the retention settings of the analytics service. Reasonable technical and organisational measures protect data held by the site.
Access to contact submissions is confined to the people responsible for answering them. No method of transmission or storage over the internet carries a guarantee of absolute security, and readers should weigh this before submitting any information.
Section 8: Content Methodology
Articles are developed with AI writing tools and subsequently reviewed by a human editor. The analyses, frameworks and examples published here constitute general information. They do not amount to advice of a professional, legal, financial or tax nature. No business outcome from applying them is guaranteed. Decisions about your own data strategy remain yours.
Section 9: Individual Rights
9.1 General rights
- Right of access to personal data held
- Right to rectification
- Right to erasure
- Right to object to processing
- Right to withdraw consent
- Right to complain to a data protection authority
Submit requests through the contact form, stating which right you intend to exercise. Each request receives a response.
For clarity, each right operates as follows in the context of this site. Access provides a copy of correspondence held. Rectification amends inaccurate contact details. Erasure removes the correspondence record. Objection halts a specific processing activity. Withdrawal of consent disables analytics cookies prospectively. A complaint is lodged directly with the competent supervisory authority, without any obligation to contact the site first.
9.2 California
California residents are advised the site neither sells nor shares personal information for monetary consideration.
Section 10: Minors
The site is not directed at children below 13 years of age, or below 16 where local law imposes the higher threshold. Data identified as belonging to a child is deleted promptly.
Section 11: Jurisdiction and Revision
This Notice is governed by the law of the location in which the site operator is established. Revisions take effect on publication, and the effective date above will be updated to match. Material revisions will be reflected in the text of this Notice rather than announced elsewhere.