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howtobedigital.com is a trading name of Digital Skill Works Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 16443130.

Registered office: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London, England, EC2A 4NE.

Director: Craig Stanley.

Contact: hello@howtobedigital.com — read by a person, not a ticket system.

Producing lessons and explainers the normal way — a writer, an editor, a checker, on every one of eight lessons and twenty-six explainers — costs more than a small company giving the content away for free can sustain alone. AI is used to draft faster, so the free side of this site can stay free and grow, without charging individuals or watering down a lesson to sell something instead.

That is a trade a reader is entitled to know about, so it is stated here plainly rather than left for someone to guess.

What AI is allowed to do: draft outlines, first passes, alternative phrasings, summarise a source, check readability.

What AI is not allowed to do: decide what is taught, what is cut, what the time estimate is, whether a claim is true, or whether a step actually works.

Every step in every published lesson is carried out on a real machine by a person who watches what happens, and nothing is auto-published — a person checks and publishes each page. The full declaration, including which checks are currently outstanding on which pages, is at How this is made.

One analytics script runs on this site: Google Analytics, in its cookieless mode. Consent for analytics cookies is denied by default and never granted, so no cookie is set, nothing identifies you, and there is still no cookie banner — full detail at Privacy. Nothing else: no other third-party scripts, no session recording, no social widgets. This section said "there are none" until 22 August 2026, and was updated the day the analytics was added — first, not last, as promised.

The only personal data this site collects directly is what a reader chooses to type into an email to hello@howtobedigital.com. No form stores anything, and Digital Skill Works Ltd is the data controller for that email correspondence. When a page loads, your browser also makes one request to Google's analytics service; Google processes that request's technical details to produce anonymous page counts, sets no cookie in the mode this site uses, and states that Analytics does not log or store IP addresses. Digital Skill Works Ltd only ever sees aggregate numbers.

Whether that limited processing requires entry on the ICO's register of fee payers has not yet been formally checked against the ICO's own self-assessment tool — that is an open item, listed here rather than left unsaid, and will be resolved and this page updated once it has been. If you have a data protection question in the meantime, use the email above.

Lessons and explainers are checked against the method described at How this is taught, and every statistic on the site carries a named source, listed in full at Evidence. Even so, this is free, general information for working adults, not professional, legal, financial or IT advice for your specific situation, and screens in software you use change — a lesson can go out of date between checks.

Content is provided as seen, without a guarantee that it is complete, current or fit for a particular purpose, and Digital Skill Works Ltd does not accept liability for loss arising from relying on it, except where the law does not allow that liability to be excluded. If something here is wrong, say so — hello@howtobedigital.com. Corrections get published rather than edited in quietly.

What you can copy, print and reuse — and on what terms — is set out at Licence. Third-party material cited on the site, including government and Skills England sources, belongs to those bodies and is credited where it is used.

These notices, and use of this site, are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.