About & Disclosures

About Everyday Safety Hacks

Everyday Safety Hacks shares practical, everyday-life safety guidance for travel, home, emergencies, and personal safety — adapted from professional personal-security and hostile-environment awareness training principles, rewritten in plain language for general use.

Who's Behind This

Richard Clarke

Richard spent over two decades advising organisations across Europe, North Africa, and the Americas on keeping people safe in complex and high-risk environments — crisis management, evacuation planning, and hotel, residential, and travel security among them. He's a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) who started his career as an infantry officer in the British Armed Forces, with postings across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, before moving into security and resilience advisory work for organisations operating in some of the more unpredictable corners of the world.

Everyday Safety Hacks takes that same practical thinking — the stuff that actually works, not the stuff that sounds impressive — and applies it to ordinary life: a first flat abroad, a solo trip, a storm rolling in, or just the walk home at night. Richard is bilingual in English and Spanish, with working French and Arabic, and has advised clients in more than a dozen countries.

Get in Touch

Have a question, a story, or a topic you'd like to see covered? Get in touch: everydaysafetyhacks@proton.me

Affiliate Disclosure

Everyday Safety Hacks is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk (for English-language pages) and Amazon.es (for Spanish-language pages). As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Product links on this site may earn us a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend items relevant to the guide they appear on.

Disclaimer

The content on this site is general information, not professional, medical, legal, or emergency advice. In an emergency, always contact your local emergency services first.

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Everyday Safety Hacks is an independent website run by Richard Clarke, contactable at everydaysafetyhacks@proton.me. For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR, Richard Clarke is the data controller for this site.

What information we collect

This site doesn't require an account, a login, or any registration to use. We don't run any first-party analytics or tracking scripts, and we don't set any cookies of our own.

The only personal data we handle directly is what you choose to send us. If you email us at everydaysafetyhacks@proton.me, we receive your email address, whatever name you sign with, and the content of your message. We use this only to reply to you — we don't add you to a mailing list or share it with anyone else.

Our hosting provider may keep standard server access logs (IP address, browser type, page requested, timestamp) for security and reliability, the same way almost every website does. We don't access these for marketing or profiling.

Cookies

We don't set any cookies of our own. This site is built as static pages with no login, shopping cart, or tracking script, so there's nothing for a first-party cookie to do — and no cookie banner is currently needed as a result.

If you click through to a product on Amazon from one of our guides, Amazon will set its own cookies once you land on their site, so they can credit us with the referral if you make a purchase. That happens on Amazon's site, under Amazon's own privacy policy — not ours, and not until you click through.

If that ever changes (for example, if we add analytics in future), we'll add a proper consent banner before doing so, and update this policy.

Legal basis for processing

Where we process your email because you've contacted us, our legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to messages sent to us, and your consent in choosing to email us in the first place.

How long we keep information

We keep emails for as long as is reasonably useful to resolve your query or maintain a record of correspondence, then delete them. Server logs held by our hosting provider are typically rotated automatically after a short period, set by the host rather than by us.

Where your information is processed

Email is handled via Proton Mail, based in Switzerland — a country recognised by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection. Our web host may log basic access information (IP address, timestamp) as standard practice for operating their infrastructure; this isn't data we access or use ourselves. If you buy something via an Amazon affiliate link, that transaction is between you and Amazon (Amazon.es or Amazon.co.uk), governed entirely by Amazon's own privacy policy, including any transfer of data outside the UK/EU, which Amazon addresses in its own policy.

Your rights

If you're in the EU or UK, data protection law gives you the right to:

access the personal data we hold about you
ask us to correct it if it's inaccurate
ask us to delete it
restrict or object to how we use it
ask for a copy in a portable format
withdraw consent at any time, where we're relying on consent
complain to your national data protection authority — for example the AEPD in Spain (aepd.es) or the ICO in the UK (ico.org.uk) — if you think we've mishandled your data

To exercise any of these, email everydaysafetyhacks@proton.me.

Children's privacy

Some of our guides are written with teenagers and young adults in mind, but this site doesn't knowingly collect personal data from children and isn't designed to. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we'll delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site evolves — for example, if we add analytics or new features. We'll update the date below whenever we do.

Last updated: August 2026. This policy is written in plain language to genuinely reflect how this site works. It isn't a substitute for legal advice — before a commercial launch, it's worth a quick review by a qualified data protection professional, particularly to confirm the correct supervisory authority for your specific situation.