The short version

Cookies

None. We set no cookies of any kind, including on the outbound redirect.

Third-party analytics

None. No analytics script, advertising pixel or social widget runs on these pages.

Accounts

The public site has none. There is nothing to sign up for.

IP addresses

Used momentarily to filter automated traffic, then discarded. Not stored in our click records.

Selling data

Never. There is no audience data here to sell, which is the point.

When you click an affiliate link

Outbound commercial links pass through our own redirect so we can tell which article produced a sale. At that moment we record which link was used, which article and topic it sat on, the referring page, the browser’s user-agent string, a coarse country derived from request headers, and a randomly generated click identifier.

The identifier we pass to the merchant describes the page, not you: article, topic, channel and that random click id. It contains no name, email, account, device identifier or IP address, and it cannot be resolved back to a person by us or by the merchant.

Once you arrive on the merchant’s site you are subject to their privacy policy, and they will typically set their own cookies. We have no control over and no visibility into that.

When a sale is reported back

The merchant or network tells us that an order occurred, with the order reference and the commission. That message is verified as genuine and matched to the click identifier so we know which article earned it. We do not receive, and do not want, the buyer’s identity, address, or what else was in the basket.

Server logs and retention

Ordinary web server logs exist for security and debugging and are kept only as long as they are useful for those purposes. Click and conversion records are kept because they are how commission is attributed and audited; they describe pages and orders, not people.

Your rights, and reaching us

We hold no personal data to give you a copy of or to erase, because none is collected. If you believe otherwise, or want to ask anything about this page, write to [email protected].