Privacy Policy

Last updated 17 August 2026

Discipline Over Comfort is a coaching practice operated by Blake Tomlinson in Ontario, Canada. This page explains exactly what this website collects, why, and what happens to it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

What this site collects

If you fill in the contact form: your name, your email address, which program you selected, and whatever you write in the message box. That is all — there are no hidden fields collecting anything else.

If you book a conversation: your name, your email address, and your answers to the few questions asked before a time is confirmed. This is handled by Cal.com, the scheduling service described below, and it goes to Blake so he can prepare for the call and so you both get a calendar invitation.

Automatically, for security: our hosting provider records standard server information such as your IP address and browser type. This is used to stop abuse of the contact form — for example, blocking someone submitting it hundreds of times — and for nothing else.

Counting visits — and the limits we put on it

This site counts page views using Vercel Web Analytics. It answers one question — whether anyone is actually reading this — and it is the least invasive tool we could find that answers it.

It sets no cookies. Nothing is stored on your device, which is why this site has no cookie banner. A visit is counted using a temporary value derived from your request, and that value is discarded after 24 hours. It cannot follow you to any other website, it cannot build a profile of you, and what you looked at is never stored against your IP address.

What gets recorded is a short list: the page you viewed, the site that referred you, your approximate location, your device type, and your browser and operating system. Added together across everyone, that tells us something like “forty people read the programs section this week, mostly on phones.” It does not tell us who you are, and we have no way to single you out from it.

What this site does not collect

• No cookies. Not advertising cookies, not analytics cookies — none at all.
• No advertising or tracking pixels. Nothing from TikTok, Meta, Google, or any other network.
• No tracking of you across other websites.
• No account, no password, no profile.
• No payment details are handled by this website.

If any of that changes, this page will be updated before the change goes live, and the date at the top will tell you when.

Why we have it, and what we do with it

We use what you send through the contact form for one purpose: to reply to you. If you write to ask about coaching, Blake reads it and answers it.

You will not be added to a mailing list. Contacting us is not consent to be marketed at. If we ever start a newsletter, you would have to deliberately sign up for it and confirm that signup by email — and you could leave at any time.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. To anyone. Ever.

Who else can see it

Running a website means using a few services. The ones that touch your data are:

• Vercel — hosts this website, processes the server logs described above, and provides the cookieless page-view counting described above.
• Brevo — delivers your contact form message to Blake's inbox as an email.
• Cloudflare — may provide anti-spam verification on the contact form to confirm you are a person rather than a bot.
• Cal.com — runs the booking calendar. If you book a conversation, it receives your name, email and answers, and sends the calendar invitation. Nothing from Cal.com runs on this website — the booking page links out to it, so it sets nothing on your device unless you go there.

These providers process data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes. Some of them operate servers outside Canada, including in the United States and the European Union, which means your information may be stored or processed there and could be subject to the laws of those countries.

How long it is kept

Contact form enquiries are kept as ordinary email in Blake's inbox for as long as they are useful for the conversation, and are deleted when they are not. Security logs are kept for a short period by our hosting provider and then discarded.

If you become a client, records relating to payments must be kept for six years to meet Canada Revenue Agency requirements.

Your rights

Under Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA) you can ask us to tell you what personal information we hold about you, correct it if it is wrong, or delete it. You can also withdraw your consent to us holding it.

Ask, and we will do it — there is no process to go through and no reason we would refuse. Use the contact form on the home page and say what you want.

If you are ever unsatisfied with how we have handled this, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at priv.gc.ca.

Children

This coaching practice is for adults. This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear here with a new date at the top. Material changes — particularly anything that would mean collecting more than we do today — will be made before the change takes effect, not after.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about information we hold, go through the contact form and reach Blake directly.