Privacy policy

This site asks you for nothing and knows you as a number. There is no account, no form and no newsletter, and the only thing measuring anything is Google Analytics counting how many people read which page. The last section explains how to confirm every word of that for yourself in about a minute.

No accounts Nothing to sign up for, and we never ask for your name or email.

Two cookies Google Analytics sets them to count visits. Nothing else here sets one.

No ad tracking No advertising pixel, no remarketing tag, and nothing sold to anybody.

What this site collects

Nothing that identifies you. There is no form, no account, no newsletter and no comment box, so there is no field anywhere that would take your name or your email address. Every page is built in advance and served as a plain file, so there is nothing here that could ask.

What is measured is traffic: which pages get read, roughly where in the world the reader was, and whether they had been here before. That is described in full below, and it is the only measurement on the site.

Analytics

Google Analytics 4, and nothing else. It was switched on on 10 August 2026 and it is the only script on this site that runs. There is no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no remarketing tag, no heatmap or session recorder, and no A/B testing tool.

We use it to see which guides people actually read and which ones nobody finds, which is what decides what gets written next. What we can see is counts: pageviews, how people arrived, roughly what country they were in, and how many were returning. There is no view anywhere in it that shows an individual person, and we have not connected it to Google Ads or turned on Google Signals, which is the setting that would let it build advertising profiles.

The two cookies

Google Analytics sets _ga and _ga_4Q43K2W115 on this domain. They hold a randomly generated number that lets Google tell one browser from another, which is how a returning reader is counted once rather than twice. They carry no name, no email and nothing you have typed, because this site never receives any of those. _ga expires two years after your last visit.

Google receives your IP address in order to work out an approximate location, and Google Analytics 4 discards it rather than recording it. What Google may do with data it holds is set out in their privacy policy and in how Google Analytics uses data.

Turning it off

Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site that uses it, not just this one. Blocking googletagmanager.com in any content blocker does the same job here, and so does clearing cookies for this domain. Nothing on this site behaves differently if you do: there is no wall, no prompt and no degraded version, because the measurement is for us rather than for you.

What loads from somewhere else

Three parties see something when you read this site. The useful question is not whether a site uses third parties, because nearly all of them do, but who sees what and at what moment. So here is all of it.

Who	What	When	What they can see
Amazon	Product images	Automatically, on the 15 pages that show products	Your IP address, your browser’s user agent, and which page requested the image. Their image responses set no cookie.
Amazon	Affiliate links	Only if you click one	Everything in their own privacy policy, including cookies they set on their site. We are told only how many clicks and sales came from which page.
Google	Analytics	Automatically, on every page	The page you are on, the page you came from, your browser and device type, screen size, language, and an approximate location worked out from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not record the address itself. Two cookies distinguish a returning visit from a new one.
Cloudflare	Hosting and delivery	Every request	Standard server logs, including IP address, kept for security and delivery. Cloudflare also asks browsers to report failed requests to it, which is a platform default and reports errors rather than visits.

The first row is the one most sites leave out, so it is worth being plain about. Product photographs are loaded directly from Amazon's servers on the 15 pages that show products, which means Amazon receives a request from your browser whether or not you click anything. They are served that way because Amazon's licence requires it: their product images may not be stored or cached by us, so the only compliant way to show one is to load it live from them. Those image responses carried no cookies when we checked on 8 August 2026.

Affiliate links

Product links carry a tracking identifier so the retailer knows the visit came from this site, which is how the site is funded. Clicking one takes you to Amazon, where their own privacy policy applies and they may set cookies we neither control nor see. What comes back to us is aggregate reporting: how many clicks and how many sales came from which page. We never learn who you are, and we never learn what else you bought. The affiliate disclosure explains the commercial side of the same arrangement.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare Workers as static files. Cloudflare processes standard server logs, including IP addresses, for delivery and security, under their own privacy terms. Cloudflare also asks browsers to report network errors back to it, which is a default of their platform, reports failures rather than page views, and is not something this site switches on per visitor.

Your rights

We hold no account, no email address and no name, so there is nothing here filed under you that we could export, correct or delete. The analytics figures we see are counts rather than people, and there is no lookup in them that starts from a person.

The one identifier connected to you is the random number in the two cookies named above, and it is under your control rather than ours: clearing cookies for this domain destroys it, and the opt-out add-on stops it being created. Requests about data held by Google, Amazon or Cloudflare go to them directly, under the policies linked above. Anything about this page itself can go to our contact page.

How to check any of this yourself

Every claim above is verifiable from your own browser, and it takes about a minute. This is the same principle the rest of the site runs on: we would rather you checked than took our word for it.

Look for the tracking. View the page source and search it for script. You will find exactly two kinds. One is application/ld+json, which is structured data describing the page for search engines: it is not code and it does not run. The other is the Google Analytics tag, loading from googletagmanager.com with the id G-4Q43K2W115. There is no third.
Look for the cookies. Open your browser's developer tools, find the storage or application panel, and look at what this domain has set. You will find _ga and _ga_4Q43K2W115 and nothing else. Both hold a random number and neither holds anything you typed, because there is nowhere on this site to type anything.
Watch what the page requests. The network panel shows every request a page makes. On a page with products you will see images coming from m.media-amazon.com, which is the row above. On a page without them, such as this one, you will see the page, its stylesheet and its icon from this domain, and the analytics tag from Google. Nothing else at all.

If this changes

If this site ever starts collecting something it does not collect today, or adds a service that does, this page will say so before that happens and the date below will change. A privacy policy describing a different site from the one you are reading is worse than no privacy policy, because it is trusted.

Last updated 10 August 2026.