Privacy Policy

This is a static website. There are no accounts and no sign-in, and the site sets no cookies of its own.

Our own scripts are small and run in your browser. The header search loads its list of guides from this site the first time you open it and searches that list in your browser. The share buttons on a guide open your device’s share menu or copy the page’s address. One more line, on every page, acts only on an address that ends in ?edit, which the editor uses to open the site’s own editing tools. What you type into the search is not sent to us.

We do not build profiles of visitors, and nothing about anyone is sold.

The site shows no ads and has no advertising pixels. No advertising network or data broker receives anything from a visit here.

Cloudflare serves the site. It processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and to stop abuse.

Cloudflare may also add small scripts of its own to a page as it delivers it: to count visits with its web analytics, which Cloudflare says sets no cookies, or to hide the email address on a page from harvesting bots. Where visits are counted, we see totals, such as how many times a page was viewed and from which countries, never who you are.

Product photos load directly from the retailers’ own image servers. When a page shows one, your browser asks that server for it, and the request carries what any browser request does, such as your IP address.

The contact form sends your name, email address, topic and message straight to this site’s own inbox; no third-party form or mail service handles them. They are stored in the site’s database, run for us by a hosting provider, where only the editor can read them. We use them only to reply to you, and never add you to a mailing list because you wrote.

To stop floods of automated messages, the inbox counts how many messages arrive from each network (IP) address over ten minutes. That count is held in memory only: your address is not stored with your message.

When you follow a link to a retailer such as Amazon, you leave this site and that retailer’s own privacy policy applies.

Our links go straight to the retailer.

Every page is served over an encrypted connection, and so is the contact form. The site keeps no accounts; the only visitor data it stores is a message sent through the contact form, which only the editor can read, after signing in.

The site is written for adults choosing things to buy. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

You can ask what we hold about you, which in practice means a message you sent us, and ask for it to be deleted. Privacy questions go to the contact page.

When this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it, and the new text applies from that day.