Privacy
Last updated:
This site is a folder of static files. There is no server of mine running anywhere, no database, and nothing here that knows who you are. Most of this page is still a list of things that do not happen.
What I collect
Nothing you type, because there is nothing to type into. No accounts, no logins, no comments, no newsletter. Not a single field on this site, so there is nothing of yours for me to store, lose, or sell. What I do get is the anonymous measurement described below. One tool counts visits. The other records how a page gets used, which is a bigger thing to collect, so it has its own section rather than sitting behind the word analytics.
Analytics: what gets counted
Google Analytics 4, added on 25 July 2026. It tells me which pages get opened, roughly which country a visit came from, and which product links get clicked. That last one is the whole commercial point: it is how I learn whether a photograph or a sentence earns the click. None of it names you. I never see an email address, an account, or an individual person, and I could not identify you from it if I wanted to.
Analytics: what gets recorded
Microsoft Clarity, added on 27 July 2026. This one goes further than counting, so here is exactly what it does. It records where your pointer moves, what you click, how far down the page you scroll, and where you click something that turns out not to be a link. It turns that into heatmaps and into a replay of the page view, which I watch to find the spot where a comparison table stops making sense. It is the reason a badly built table gets fixed instead of sitting there for a year.
A replay is your browser’s rendering of my page with a pointer moving over it. There is nothing on this site to type into, so nothing typed can be captured. It carries no name, no email address and no account, because the site collects none of those. Microsoft receives it and holds it under their privacy statement. I see it as one anonymous visit among others and I cannot tell you from anyone else.
If you would rather not be recorded, any content blocker that blocks clarity.ms stops it before it starts, and nothing on this site breaks when you do that.
Cookies and browser storage
Clarity sets no cookies anywhere in the world. The page hands it an explicit refusal before its script loads, so it writes no cookie in any country rather than only in the ones that require it. That costs me the ability to follow a visit from one page to the next, because each page arrives as its own anonymous recording. I would rather have the worse data.
It does store one thing, and I would rather name it than let you find it in developer tools and wonder what else went unmentioned. A key called _cltk holds a seven character random token in session storage. It is what lets Clarity tell that two pages belong to the same tab. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to any other site, it says nothing about who you are, and your browser deletes it the moment you close the tab.
Google Analytics is the cookie half. In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland it runs with storage switched off, so it writes nothing at all and Google receives an anonymous hit that cannot recognize you if you come back tomorrow. Everywhere else it sets Google’s usual analytics cookies, which is what lets it tell a second visit from a new one. Advertising and personalization storage are switched off for both tools everywhere, without exception, because this site runs no advertising and builds no audiences. Nothing is ever written to local storage.
There is no consent banner here. Outside the strictest jurisdictions that is uncontroversial. Inside them it rests on a judgement I would rather state than bury: what gets stored on a UK or EU visitor’s device is one tab-scoped token that dies with the tab, and no cookie of any kind. That is a smaller footprint than the banner itself would need. Reasonable people draw that line in different places, so I have told you exactly where it sits and left you the means to block it.
Affiliate links
Links to Amazon carry my associate tag, grillingsetup-20. Following one hands you to Amazon, and Amazon sets a cookie so a purchase can be credited to this site. That happens on their systems under their privacy policy, not mine. What comes back to me is a commission report that counts orders and items. It does not name you, and I never see your order, your payment details, or your address. The money side is on the disclosure page.
Hosting
Firebase Hosting, which is Google. They serve the files and, like every web server, keep request logs that include IP addresses for security and abuse prevention. Those logs are Google’s, held under Google’s terms. The domain’s DNS is at GoDaddy and there is no other proxy or CDN in front of the site. The typefaces are compiled in at build time and served from this domain, so reading a page here does not call Google Fonts.
Contact
There is no contact address here yet. Mail for this domain is still being set up, and I would rather say that than publish an address that quietly throws your message away. It goes up here the day it works. Who I am and how the site is funded is on the about page.