Privacy policy

Aggregate analytics. We use Google Analytics to measure how many people visit, which pages they read and roughly where they came from. This is used to decide what to write next. It records technical information such as your approximate location, device type, browser and the pages you viewed, and it sets cookies to do so. We do not use it to identify you individually, and we do not combine it with anything else.

Clicks on buy links. When you follow a buy link we record that a click happened, on which page, for which product, in our analytics. That is how we know which recommendations people find useful. It is aggregate — we do not build a profile of what any individual clicked.

What you send us. If you use the contact form or email us, we receive your name, your email address and your message. The form also records a timestamp of when the page loaded, which is part of the spam defense and is not retained.

Server logs. Our hosting provider records standard request information, including IP addresses, for security and operational purposes. The contact form additionally keeps a short-lived in-memory count of submissions per IP address — a rate limit, which is discarded when the server restarts.

When you follow a buy link from this site, you pass through a redirect on our domain which attaches our affiliate tag, and then you arrive at the retailer — currently Amazon in every case.

At that point you are on the retailer's site and subject to their privacy policy, not ours. Retailers typically set their own cookies to attribute a purchase to the site that referred you, which is how affiliate commission works, and they may collect considerably more about you than we do.

We receive no information about what you looked at or bought. Affiliate reporting shows us aggregate commission, not individual purchases, and we cannot see who you are or what you put in your basket.

If you would rather not pass through our link at all, search for the product name directly. The recommendations on this site are identical either way and the pages are free to read.

Messages sent through the form arrive as email. They are read, replied to where a reply is appropriate, and kept only as long as that correspondence is useful.

We do not add you to anything. Emailing us does not subscribe you to a list, because there is no list.

We do not share your message with brands, retailers or anyone else.

If you tell us about a factual error, we may act on the information — correcting a page — without identifying you. We will not quote you or name you on the site without asking.

If this policy changes, the updated date at the top of the page changes with it. If a change is material — if we started collecting something we do not collect today — we would say so plainly on the page rather than relying on the date.

Questions: contact@primerandpoise.com.