Privacy Policy

What we collect directly

Nothing, by default. We don't run user accounts, forms, comment systems, or login. The site is static HTML served from Cloudflare Pages. No server-side database, no cookies set by us.

Cloudflare Pages (hosting)

Our host, Cloudflare, logs standard request metadata: IP address, user agent, timestamp, requested URL, referrer, and HTTP response code. This is used for security (bot mitigation, DDoS protection) and uptime monitoring. Cloudflare retains these logs per its privacy policy.

Third-party services we embed

• Pagefind search — runs entirely in your browser. No search queries are sent to any server; the search index is fetched as static JSON.
• Google AdSense — shows ads on some pages. Google may set advertising cookies to measure impressions and show relevant ads. See Google's ad technologies policy. You can opt out at Google Ad Settings.
• Consent management (EEA / UK / Switzerland) — we use Google's certified Consent Management Platform. Visitors in those regions see a banner on first visit with three choices: consent to personalized ads, refuse, or manage detailed preferences. Refusing still allows the site to work normally; you'll just see non-personalized ads. You can change your choice anytime via the "Privacy choices" link that appears in the consent banner.
• Affiliate links — some outbound links to AI platforms and tools are affiliate links. Clicking them may set cookies on the destination site that credit us for the referral. We never receive or store your personal data through these links.

Analytics

We use privacy-respecting aggregate analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics) that does not use cookies and does not track individuals. We see counts of pageviews per URL and referrer categories — never individual browsing history.

AI crawlers

We explicitly allow major AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) to index our public content. This is intentional: we want our guides to be useful to AI agents as well as humans. Our content is published under Creative Commons BY 4.0 and is already intended for re-use.

Your rights

Because we don't collect personal data, there's nothing for us to delete. If you want to block cookies from embedded third parties (AdSense, affiliate partners), use your browser's cookie settings or an extension like uBlock Origin — we won't know the difference.

Contact

This site doesn't publish a contact email by design — fewer attack surfaces, less spam, and consistent with our zero-data-collection posture. If you have a privacy question or correction, post it as a public note via any of our outbound channels (RSS, news digest, social) and we'll address it on the site itself.

Changes

If we add new third-party services (e.g., a newsletter or comment system), we'll update this page and bump the "Last updated" date at the top.