Effective Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Welcome to BusinessResearchJournal.com, a website proudly designed, used, written on, overthought, and probably over-secured by me and only me. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, and protect data from the only person who uses this site: also me. Or you, if you’re responsible enough.
🤓 Who We Are
We are me.
I am we.
This is a one-human operation.
There is no team. There is no marketing department.
It’s just one guy researching his way to a doctoral degree while hoarding ideas in a beautiful glass jar made of PHP and MySQL.
📊 What Information I Collect
As the sole user of this site, I collect information about myself — primarily to help my future self wonder what on earth I was thinking.
I may collect:
- IP addresses (mine) (and yours)
- Login activity (mine) (and yours)
- Page visits (also mine) (and yours)
- Search history (if I ever figure out how to enable search, although you could probably use Google faster)
- Occasional existential questions typed into the post editor and never published
All of this information is stored in databases I built myself and secured with an unreasonable amount of encryption, paranoia, and duct tape.
🚷 Who I Share Data With
No one.
Seriously.
Not even future me unless I remember the admin password.
Unless I get hacked, audited by the ghost of Alan Turing, or abducted by aliens looking for qualitative data, your — I mean my — data is safe. (Our data is really safe, I have the best security. The password is password.)
🔐 Security
This website is locked down tighter than a bunker full of research grants.
It uses:
- Encrypted SSH access
- Two-factor authentication (when I remember to turn it on)
- Self-hosted backups (because the cloud is just someone else’s computer)
No one but me can log in.
And sometimes not even me, if I typo my password too many times.
📴 Offline-First Design
This site was intentionally built to be used offline, locally, by me. It’s like a digital diary, but with source citations. But it will run online.
When the website is online, it’s because I needed to:
- Back it up
- Test something
- Or show off to the admissions committee (Thank you folks, I really appreciate you)
🧑🤝🧑 Provisions for Future Guests (When Online)
Should the unlikely day come where this site becomes public-facing and allows visitors:
- I will probably panic and immediately set up a new user role called “Snoop”
- Visitors will have no edit access, but may browse read-only pages like “Dissertation Panic Logs 2030”
- All guest activity will be logged and judged silently by a plugin I haven’t written yet and that will probably never exist
🍪 Cookies
If any cookies are stored, they are for:
- WordPress session tracking
- Me forgetting I logged in three hours ago
- Telling myself I’ll start using private browsing “next time”
👁️ Data Access Requests
If you would like to know what data I’ve collected about you, please:
- Email myself
- Wait for myself to reply
- Get distracted and forget
- Follow-up in 2-4 business years
🧾 Changes to This Policy
If I ever become wildly famous or allow other humans to use this site, I’ll rewrite this to include actual lawyers and maybe a GDPR section. (Yes, I’m looking at you Europe.)
Until then, this Privacy Policy stands as a monument to solitude, self-reflection, and self-surveillance.
Contact:
Email: robert@businessresearchjournal.com
Location: Sleeping somewhere soundly
Website Admin: Me, Myself, and I