A short, plain-language note. We collect very little, and we want to be straight about what.
Bagpipe Underground is a small, community-run site. We collect very little information about you, and we want to be plain about what we do collect, why, and how to make us delete it.
You can read every page on this site without telling us anything. The only times we end up with your information are when you fill out one of our forms: the Ask a Question card on the homepage, the newsletter signup, the suggest-a-podcast / school / book / pipe band buttons on the Resources sub-pages, the Suggest an Event button on the Events page, and the deletion-request form at the bottom of this page. Each form asks for a name, an email address, and whatever you decide to type in the message field.
We do not embed advertising trackers or social-media pixels. We do not set any cookies of our own. We use one analytics tool, Plausible, which is designed not to track individuals across visits or sites. Our host, Cloudflare, sets one short-lived bot-protection cookie. Both are explained in the next section. We self-host our fonts so the page does not call out to Google when you load it.
When you submit a form, the contents go to Formspree, a service we use to forward submissions to our inbox. Formspree handles the email delivery on our behalf and is the third party that sees the contents of your message. We do not sell, share, or repurpose any of it.
The site itself is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which means Cloudflare receives the same information any web host would: the IP address you connected from, your browser type, and which page you asked for. Cloudflare also sets a short-lived __cf_bm cookie that helps it tell automated traffic from real people. The cookie clears itself within about thirty minutes, does not identify you personally, and is not something we read. This is part of how Cloudflare keeps the site online and reachable, and it is the same arrangement every Cloudflare-hosted site uses.
We use Plausible Analytics to see which pages get read. Plausible is a small, EU-based service designed not to track people: it does not set cookies, it does not store your IP address, and it cannot tie one of your visits to another. What it tells us is rough and aggregate: which articles get the most reads, what country readers are in (no city, no precinct), and what link or search brought them in. We chose it because that level of signal is what we need to make good editorial decisions, and because its privacy posture matches what this notice promises.
Aside from Formspree, Cloudflare, and Plausible, no other third party is involved in any part of how the site reaches you, how we count what readers are looking at, or how messages reach us.
We keep submissions for as long as we need them for the purpose you sent them for, and no longer. If you joined the newsletter, that means until you unsubscribe. If you sent in a question or a resource suggestion, that means until we have read and acted on it. We are not in the business of building a long-term profile of anyone.
Use the form below. Tell us roughly when you wrote in and what email address you used so we can find the right submission, and we will remove it from our records. If you cannot remember the details, write us anyway and we will do our best.
Last updated May 11, 2026. If we change anything material, we will say so here.
No drama, no follow-up questions. Tell us what to look for and we will remove it.
You will not get a confirmation email -- just consider it done within a few days. If you want to confirm, write again in a couple of weeks.