Last updated: [ADD: date when you publish this].
TechCaw collects as little as it can and sells nothing. This page says exactly what is stored when
you read a guide, who else sees it, and how to ask for it to be removed.
What this site stores itself
- Your saved list. The “Save” button on a card keeps a short list of page addresses in
your own browser (localStorage). It never leaves your device, there is no account, and no server copy
exists. Clearing your browser storage for this site removes it. - Your colour theme choice (dark or light) is remembered the same way, in your
browser. - Server logs. Like any website, the host records the page requested, the time, an
HTTP status, the referring address and a truncated IP for abuse prevention. These are not joined to
anything about you and are not read except when something is broken or under attack.
Comments, forms and search
[ADD: keep only what is true. If comments are open, the comment form stores the name, email and
text you type, and your IP address and browser string are recorded with it so spam can be detected. An
anonymised string created from your email address may be checked against a gravatar service. If
comments are closed, delete this section.] The filter box on the home page runs entirely inside your
browser; a search you press Enter on becomes a normal public search URL, which does end up in the
server log.
Analytics and advertising
[ADD: state the truth here and delete the rest. Options:
(1) “No analytics and no advertising are used.”
(2) “Traffic is measured with Jetpack Stats / Google Analytics 4 / Plausible, which records pages
viewed, approximate country, device type and referrer — not your name.”
(3) “Ads are served by Google AdSense; Google uses cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and
other sites, and you can opt out at adssettings.google.com.”]
Third parties inside a page
Some guides show an image hosted by a search engine or a video embedded from YouTube. When your
browser loads it, that third party sees the request and its own privacy policy applies. Embeds are only
used where a picture genuinely cannot carry the instruction; nothing loads a tracker before you ask
for it. [ADD: if you change this, update the sentence.]
Cookies
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Visitors who are not logged in get no first-party cookie from TechCaw for tracking purposes. Any
advertising or analytics cookie comes from the company named above.
Where your data lives, and children
Hosting: [ADD: host + country, e.g. “Hostinger, data centre in the Netherlands”]. The site is not
directed at children and no account system for children exists.
Your rights
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authority in your country is the route; [ADD: name it if you want, e.g. the ICO in the UK].
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters to you, the date at the top changes and the difference is
described here in one sentence.