Privacy Policy

The short version

This site is built to collect as little personal data as possible. Reading articles requires no account and no subscription, and sends no data to advertising networks. Audience measurement has two separate parts: Cloudflare Web Analytics, a script that Cloudflare states uses no cookies and that runs on every page without asking for consent, and Google Analytics, which runs only if you consent — nothing is sent to Google before you do.

Data we process

Server logs. Our hosting infrastructure records standard technical logs (IP address, requested URL, user agent) for security and operational purposes. These logs are retained only as long as operationally necessary.

Google Analytics — only with your consent. We use Google Analytics 4 to see which articles are read and how visitors arrive. It is loaded only if you accept in the cookie banner: decline, or ignore it, and no request is ever made to Google. Once accepted, it sets cookies holding a randomly generated identifier and sends Google your approximate location, device and browser characteristics, and the pages you view. Google acts as our processor and states that it truncates IP addresses before storage. You can withdraw consent at any time from the Cookie Policy, where the full detail also lives.

Contact form. Messages sent through the contact form, including the email address you provide, are used only to respond to your inquiry — including editorial partnership and correction requests. Delivery is handled by Resend, our email provider; we do not add senders to any mailing list. The form is protected against automated abuse by Cloudflare Turnstile, which processes technical signals such as your IP address and browser information to tell people from bots, as described in Cloudflare’s Turnstile Privacy Addendum. Your IP address is also used to limit how many times the form can be submitted in a minute.

What we do not do

• No advertising trackers, no ad networks, no cross-site tracking pixels.
• No sale or sharing of personal data with third parties for marketing.
• No profiling of individual readers: analytics are read in aggregate, and are never linked to your contact-form message or to any other data we hold.

Fonts and embeds

Fonts are self-hosted: viewing this site does not send requests to third-party font services. Every page loads the Cloudflare Web Analytics script (from static.cloudflareinsights.com) without asking for consent. It measures page views and page-load performance; Cloudflare states that it uses no cookies or local storage, does not fingerprint visitors, and discards your IP address at the nearest Cloudflare data center instead of storing it. The Google Analytics script is separate and loads only if you consent. The contact page also loads Cloudflare Turnstile, the bot-check widget described under Contact form. Where a page embeds external content, the embed provider’s own privacy policy applies to that content.

Affiliate links

Clicking an outbound affiliate link takes you to the merchant’s site, where the merchant’s privacy policy applies. Merchants may attribute your visit to this site for commission purposes.

Your rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data concerning you. To exercise them, use the contact page.

Changes

Material changes to this policy are reflected in the “Updated” date above.