Privacy
Privacy
The short version: reading this site sends us nothing, and the forms send us only what you type.
Reading the site
There is no analytics script, no tracking pixel, no advertising network code and no social media embed on any page. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes standard server logs, including IP addresses, to serve and secure the site.
One page is different and it should be named rather than found in the page source.
The tips page runs a Cloudflare Turnstile check so the form is not
overrun by scripted junk, and that check loads code from
challenges.cloudflare.com. So opening the tips page connects your browser
to Cloudflare. It exists to tell a person from a script, it sets no advertising cookie,
and it is the only request to anyone else's server anywhere on this site.
We do keep a count of our own, and it is short enough to describe in full: one row per page view, holding the page, the country, whether the request came from a phone or a desktop, whether it was a crawler, and which page of this site linked you here if one did. There is no cookie, no IP address and no user-agent string in it, so it cannot identify you or tell a returning reader from a new one. If you arrive from another site we keep that site's name and nothing else, never the address you came from or your search terms.
The forms
The tips, corrections and advertising forms send us exactly the fields you fill in. For tips and corrections, name and email are optional by design: source protection starts with not requiring identity. What you submit is stored securely, is used only to assess and follow up the submission, and is never published, sold or shared. If you leave an email we use it only to reply about your submission.
Attachments
Files attached to a tip or correction are stored privately, are readable only by the people and systems that triage the inbox, and are automatically deleted after 30 days. Attachment links are never published.
Corrections log
When a correction changes a page we publish a dated note of what changed. The note never includes who asked, unless you explicitly request attribution.
Contact
Any privacy question or request, including asking us to delete a submission you made, can be sent through the contact forms.