The small print
Privacy Policy
This site has no accounts, no comments and no advertising. It counts its readers with Google Analytics, which sets two cookies. Here is the little it collects, and why.
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In short
- No accounts, no comments, no ads. One third-party script: Google Analytics, which counts readers and sets two cookies.
- Block it, clear it or use Google's opt-out add-on, and every page works the same.
- The server keeps the usual short-lived log of requests; we never use it to identify anyone.
- If you write to us or send feedback, it reaches our own mailbox and no one else's. We keep it for as long as it takes to act on it, and share it with nobody.
- Ask, and we will tell you what we hold about you, or delete it.
In brief
This site is a set of pages you read. It has no accounts to sign up for, no comments to leave and no advertising. Since 23 September 2026 it does count its readers, using Google Analytics, so that we know which pages are worth the work; that is the one third-party script on the site and the only reason it sets a cookie. Apart from that, the only personal information it ever holds is what you choose to send us, and the ordinary record a web server keeps of the requests it answers. This page explains all three, and what we do with them.
What we collect, and what we do not
We do not ask you for anything in order to show you a page, and we do not try to work out who you are. There is no advertising network on this site, no fingerprinting and nothing that follows you to other sites.
Three things reach us, and each is described below: the technical record every web server keeps, the counting described under Counting readers, and anything you write to us yourself.
Server logs
Like every website, this one runs on a server, and the server keeps a log of the requests it answers. A line in that log records the address your connection came from, the time, the page you asked for, and the browser and device you used. The hosting company keeps these logs for a short period for security and to keep the site running, and then discards them. We look at them only in aggregate, to see which pages are read and to notice when something breaks. We do not use them to identify readers.
Counting readers
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count how many people read which pages. We use it for one thing: to see what is read and what is not, so that the work goes where the readers are. We do not use it to identify anyone, we have not turned on any advertising feature, and we sell nothing and show no ads, so there is nothing to target.
When you open a page, a script from Google records the page you are on, the page or search that sent you there, roughly when you arrived and how long you stayed, and the sort of browser, device and screen you are using. It also works out an approximate location — usually the country, sometimes the city — from the address your connection came from. Google Analytics 4 does not record that address itself: it is used to estimate the location and is then discarded.
What Google receives goes to Google, and Google's own privacy policy covers what it does with it. If you would rather not be counted, you have three ways out that we cannot override: Google publishes a browser add-on that switches Analytics off everywhere, most privacy-minded browsers and content blockers already block this script by default, and blocking or clearing the cookies below has the same effect. Nothing on this site is withheld from you if you do — the pages behave identically, because the counting has nothing to do with showing them.
When you write to us
If you send us a message, through the contact page, the feedback form or by email, we receive whatever you put in it: usually your name, your email address and the message itself. The feedback form also sends the rating and the answers you chose, and the address of the page you were on when you opened it — the form shows you that address before you send. We keep all of it in our mailbox for as long as we need it to answer you and to act on what you said, which for a correction can mean until the fix is published and recorded. We do not add your address to any list, and we do not share it with anyone.
What you send through a form on this site reaches us as an email, sent from our own server to our own mailbox, both run by our hosting company. No form service or other company handles it on the way. The email is addressed to us; the site never sends anything to the address you typed, and we write back to you ourselves.
To stop the forms being flooded, the server counts how many messages arrive from each connection address in an hour. It keeps that count in memory only, never writes it down, and forgets it within the hour.
If you sign up for email updates, we keep your address so that we can send them, and only for that. Your signup reaches our mailbox with its date and a note that you ticked the consent box, which is our record that you asked. Every message we send includes a way to unsubscribe, and unsubscribing removes your address.
Cookies
This site sets two cookies, both belonging to Google Analytics and both used only for the counting described above. One, named _ga, holds a random number that lets Google tell one browser from another, so that two visits from you are not counted as two people. The other, named _ga_WDQ8RGC9B2, remembers that a visit is still the same visit. Neither carries your name, your address or anything you have typed, and they last up to two years unless you clear them.
There is nothing else. The site has no login to remember, no preferences to store and no advertising to target, so it sets no other cookie. Your browser may still keep ordinary cached copies of pages and images so that they load faster next time; that is your browser's behaviour, not a cookie, and clearing its cache removes them.
You can delete both cookies in your browser's settings, or refuse them with a content blocker, and the site will work exactly as before. If it ever needs a cookie of its own — to remember a setting you chose, say — this page will say so before it happens.
Fonts, images and other sites
The typeface, every picture and every line of the site's own code are served from our own server. Your browser does not contact a font service, an image host or a script library to display a page, so none of those companies learns that you visited. Google Analytics, described above, is the single exception, and it is the only company that hears from your browser when you read a page here.
Pages link to the organisations that publish the data, and articles sometimes link elsewhere. Once you follow a link you are on someone else's site, and their privacy policy applies, not this one.
Children
The site is suitable for readers of any age. It asks children for nothing, and the counting described above cannot tell a child from anyone else because it is not told who anyone is. We do not knowingly keep personal information from children, and if a parent or guardian asks us to delete a message a child sent, we will.
Your rights
You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, which will be either nothing or the messages you have sent us, and you can ask us to delete it. Write to the address at the top of this page. We answer such requests ourselves, and there is no form to fill in.
Changes to this policy
The date at the top of this page is when the text was last read through and confirmed. If the site starts collecting anything it does not collect today, this page will be updated first and the change will be noted on the Updates page.