Privacy policy
This site is static. There is no account, no form, no comment section and no newsletter, so there is almost nothing to collect — and the little there is, is described below in full.
What we collect
Nothing directly. We do not ask for your name, email or any other personal detail, and there is nowhere on this site to enter one.
Our hosting provider, Cloudflare Pages, keeps standard server logs for security and abuse prevention. We do not have access to them beyond aggregate traffic counts.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which guides people actually read.
Google Analytics does not load until you press Accept on the cookie banner. This is stricter than the usual arrangement, where the script loads immediately and consent mode merely stops it writing cookies. We do not do that, because loading the script at all sends your IP address and browser details to Google — and this page says that opening it contacts only our own server. That promise is checked by our build: it fails if any third-party resource appears in the markup.
If you accept, Google Analytics sets cookies named _ga and _ga_*, which expire after two years, and Google receives your IP address, browser user agent, and the pages you view. If you decline, or simply ignore the banner, no request to Google is ever made.
Cookies and local storage
Your answer to the banner is stored in your browser's local storage under the key bpc. It never leaves your device. That is the only thing this site stores on its own behalf.
You can change your mind at any time:
That button reopens the banner. It is hidden when JavaScript is disabled, because with JavaScript disabled analytics never loaded in the first place.
Third parties
There are none, beyond Google Analytics after consent. No advertising networks, no social widgets, no embedded video, no third-party fonts, no forms. Our fonts are served from our own domain precisely so that loading a page does not tell anyone else that you did.
Affiliate links
Some links lead to Amazon and carry our affiliate tag. Following one takes you to Amazon, where Amazon's own privacy policy applies. The tag lets Amazon attribute the visit to us; it does not tell us who you are, and we never see who bought what.
Your rights
If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR gives you the right to withdraw consent as easily as you gave it — that is what the button above is for — and to ask what data relates to you. Since we hold no personal data ourselves, such a request is best directed to Google for analytics data. You also have the right to complain to your national supervisory authority.
If you are in California, we do not sell or share personal information, as those terms are defined by the CCPA.
Contact
Questions about anything on this page: see our contacts.