Privacy Policy
Last updated 4 September 2026
This site doesn’t run analytics or advertising trackers, and it doesn’t sell data, because there isn’t a data set here worth selling. What follows is a plain description of the little this site actually collects.
- No cookies, no analytics, no ad trackers are currently in use on this site
- Contact form messages go to email only, they aren’t stored in a database
- Amazon links are the one place your activity is tracked, once you click through to Amazon
The Contact Form
When you submit the contact form, the name, email address, topic, and message you enter are sent directly to an inbox I check. They aren’t written to a database on this site, and they’re not used for anything beyond replying to you.
Newsletter Signup
If you sign up through the newsletter form shown on content pages, your email address is used only to send the shade update emails described on that form. It isn’t shared with anyone else, and every email includes a way to unsubscribe.
Affiliate Links
This site is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program. When you click an Amazon link on this site, Amazon may set its own cookies and track that visit under its own privacy policy, not this one. See the disclosure page for how those links work.
Hosting Logs
Like effectively every website, the hosting provider that serves this site keeps standard server logs, things like IP address, browser type, and the page requested, as a normal part of running a web server. These logs aren’t used for tracking or analytics on this site’s end.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or this policy needs to reflect a change I haven’t updated yet, use the contact page.