How this site is built
This site is a static website. Every page is a pre-generated HTML file served as-is, with one small script for navigation, the FAQ accordions, the contents highlighting and search. There is no application server, no database and no user state.
That architecture is the substance of this policy. There is nothing here to log in to, nothing to submit and nowhere for information about you to accumulate, because the site holds no per-reader state of any kind.
- No accounts, no login, no registration and no user profiles
- No contact form, comment section, newsletter signup or upload facility
- No advertising, ad networks or promotional units
- No analytics script, tag manager, session recorder or heatmap tool
- No tracking cookies, pixels, fingerprinting or cross-site identifiers set by this site
- No selling, renting or sharing of personal data — we hold none to share
Site search runs in your browser
The search field in the header is the only input on the site. When you open it, your browser downloads one static file — a JSON index of page titles, descriptions, keywords and URLs — and filters it locally as you type. Your keystrokes are matched against that file inside your browser and are not transmitted to us or to anyone else.
One honest caveat. If you press Enter instead of reading the live results, the browser navigates to the search page with your term in the URL, exactly like any other page request. That request goes to the web server like every other request, so the term can appear in ordinary server access logs at the hosting layer. Typing and reading the results as they appear avoids that entirely.
- What is downloaded
- A single static index file containing page metadata for this site. It contains no reader data of any kind.
- What is sent
- Nothing, while you type. Results are computed in your browser from the downloaded file.
- What is stored
- Nothing. The index lives in memory for the page view and the site writes no cookies or local storage entries.
Fonts loaded from a third party
We would rather not put that in a privacy policy, so it is worth being clear about the trade-off. Self-hosting the same fonts as static files on this domain would remove the third-party connection completely, and that remains the preferable arrangement; it has simply not been done yet. Until it is, this paragraph is the disclosure.
Everything else a page needs — stylesheet, script, illustrations, icons, search index — is served from this domain. No other external embed, video player, map, chat widget or social plugin is loaded anywhere.
Server logs at the hosting layer
Like essentially every website, the server that delivers these pages may keep standard access logs. That is a hosting-layer function rather than something the site does, and it is the normal mechanism by which any web server operates and is kept secure.
| Field | Why it exists | What it is not used for |
|---|---|---|
| IP address | Required to route a response back to your browser | Building a reader profile or an audience segment |
| Requested URL | Records which file was served | Tracking an individual across visits |
| Timestamp | Ordinary operational record | Behavioural analysis |
| User-agent and referrer | Sent by browsers by default | Advertising, profiling or resale |
We publish no vendor name, no retention period and no volumes here, because we will not state operational details we cannot guarantee. If you need to know how a specific request was handled, ask via the contact page.
We do not combine log data with anything else, do not attempt to identify readers from it, and do not use it for marketing — there is no marketing to use it for.
If you email us
Email is the only channel where you can hand us information about yourself, and it only happens because you chose to write. When you send a message to the editorial address, its content — your address, your text and anything you attach — is processed as email at our mail provider so that we can read and reply to it.
What we do with it
- Read it, and reply if a reply is warranted
- Use it to correct or clarify the page it concerns
- Keep it while it is useful for handling the matter
What we never do with it
- Add you to a mailing list — we do not operate one
- Share, sell or pass your message to a provider or third party
- Publish your name or credit you without your explicit request
Children, your rights and changes
This site is aimed at adults researching business finance topics. It is not directed at children, it has no age-gated area because it has no accounts at all, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone, children included.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or restrict the use of personal data an organisation holds about you. In practice, an organisation that operates no accounts, forms, analytics or advertising holds nothing about a reader to access or delete — the only material we could possibly hold about you is an email you chose to send. If you want that correspondence deleted, say so by email and it will be removed.
- Data we ask you for
- None. There is no field anywhere on the site that collects information about you.
- Data we receive incidentally
- Ordinary web request data at the hosting layer, and third-party font requests as described above.
- Data you may choose to send
- The content of an email, if you write to us. Nothing else.
- Automated decisions
- None. Nothing here profiles, scores or makes decisions about readers.
If this policy changes — for example if the fonts are self-hosted, as they should be — the text here is updated and the page’s update date moves with it. The version published on this page is the one in force. Questions go to the contact page; the related legal statements are the disclaimer and the terms of use.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do you use cookies?
This site sets no cookies of its own — no analytics, advertising, preference or session cookies — and it stores nothing in your browser’s local storage. You should not need a cookie banner to read a static reference page, and there is none because there is nothing to consent to.
Are my search terms sent anywhere?
Not while you type: search filters a downloaded static index inside your browser. If you press Enter, the term travels in the URL of an ordinary page request, so it can appear in standard server access logs like any other requested URL.
Why load fonts from a third party if you care about privacy?
It is a genuine trade-off we have not yet resolved in the right direction. Self-hosting the fonts on this domain would remove the third-party connection, and that is the preferable arrangement; until it is done, the request is disclosed here rather than glossed over.
Who is the data controller, and where are you based?
We do not publish a legal entity, registered address or officer here, because inventing corporate details would be worse than omitting them. What we do publish is an accurate description of practice and one working editorial email address on the contact page.