Privacy
What this site records about you
A reference that asks manufacturers to be quoted exactly owes its own readers the same exactness. This is what this site records about a person who reads it, what leaves their browser anyway, who receives that, and what nobody here can do with any of it.
What is collected here
Nothing a reader types is collected, because there is nowhere here to type it. This site is a set of static files: every page is the same file for every reader, built once and served as it is.
Page views are counted with Google Analytics. What is recorded is the reading itself: which page was viewed, and the details a browser sends with any request, set out in the table below. To do it, the analytics script writes two cookies, both named further down. The count is the same on every page: there is no page here that records something the others do not.
What this site does not do
Each of these is something reference sites commonly do, and each is absent here. They are listed one at a time because a list is what a reader can check.
- No account, sign-in, form, search box, comment thread or mailing list on any page.
- No advertising, retargeting or conversion pixel of any kind.
- No session recording, heat mapping or A/B testing tool.
- No embedded video, map, chat widget or social button.
- No font, image or stylesheet fetched from another company: the two typefaces are served from this site.
- No personalization: every reader of a page is sent the same file.
- No sale or rental of anything about a reader.
Who receives anything
A page cannot be read without a request, and a request carries an address. The table is every party that receives something about a reader of this site, counted from what the pages load.
| Who receives it | What they receive | When |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare, Inc. | The address the request came from, the browser it came from, and which file was asked for. | Every request, including the one for this page. |
| Google (googletagmanager.com) | The same three when the analytics script is fetched; the script then sends a record of each page view: the address and title of the page, the page that linked to it, browser and device details, and an approximate location derived from the connection. | Each page view on this site’s own address, unless the browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. |
What those companies do with a request is governed by their own notices, not by this one. Cloudflare, Inc. serves these files under the terms of the account this site holds with it, and keeps ordinary server records of the requests it handles under its own retention periods. Nothing is exported from those records here and nothing is joined to them.
The distinction that matters is between a link and a file a page loads. Every ruling on this site carries a link to the manufacturer document it was quoted from, and a link sends nothing anywhere until a reader follows it. From that point the manufacturer’s site sees the reader the way any site sees a visitor, and this notice does not speak for it.
Cookies, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
This site sets two cookies, both written by Google Analytics: _ga and _ga_H688RFTDCV. They are first-party cookies, set on this site’s
domain alone, and neither holds anything that names a reader: the first tells one
browser from another and the second keeps the state of the visit in progress.
Google gives each a two-year expiry. Nothing else is written to a browser’s
cookies, local storage or session storage.
A browser that sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track is not counted at all. Each page checks for both signals before it asks for the analytics script, and when it finds either one the script is never requested: Google receives nothing about that visit and neither cookie is written. The same holds on any address other than this site’s own, so a preview or a copy of these files counts nobody.
There is no consent banner. Those two signals are the way to refuse, and they are acted on before anything is sent. A reader already counted can delete the two cookies, after which the browser is counted as new on its next visit, or not at all if it then sends one of the signals.
Children, selling, and state privacy rights
This site is not directed to children under thirteen, asks nobody for information, and has nothing a child could submit.
Nothing about a reader is sold or rented, and no page carries advertising. Several US states give a resident the right to ask a business what it holds about them, to have it corrected and to have it deleted. This site itself holds nothing about a reader. Its analytics account holds page views tied to the identifier in a browser’s _ga cookie, and nothing that names the person using that browser; deleting the two cookies cuts that tie.
Questions
This notice cannot yet offer an address to write to. The publisher’s trading name and contact details are withheld at present by its own decision, and no correspondence address is published on any page of this site. That is a gap, and it is stated rather than dressed up. Every ruling here carries a link to the document it was quoted from, so any entry can be checked against its primary source without writing to anyone.
Changes to this notice
The parts of this page that depend on what the site loads are generated from the same build as the pages themselves. The wording is held against a recorded copy by a build check, and wording that changes without a new effective date fails the build rather than shipping quietly.
Effective from .