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What a visit to this site leaves behind

A plain account of what a visit leaves in the server log, what the self-hosted analytics keep, and what travels with you when you follow a commercial link.

Written by /Read 2026-08-28

This site is a set of static pages. There are no user accounts, no sign-in, no comment threads and no forms, which closes off most of the routes by which a website usually gathers information about people.

What follows is what is left, stated in the order it actually happens.

What is recorded

Loading a page here produces a request to the server that hosts it, and that request carries your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, and the user-agent string your browser sends. That is true of every website; it is how the response gets back to you.

Analytics on this site is self-hosted and counts page views in aggregate. It sets no advertising identifier, follows no visitor between sites, and builds no profile. If your browser blocks it, the site works identically.

No account exists here, so no name, no email address and no payment detail is collected — there is nowhere to enter one. Writing to the contact address is the only way to send anything, and what arrives there is an email like any other.

Cookies

This site sets no advertising or tracking cookies of its own. Where a preference is remembered between visits, it is stored in your own browser and never transmitted anywhere.

Once a commercial link has taken you to the operator's own site, that site may set a cookie. That happens on their domain under their policy, not this one, and it is one of the reasons the outbound hop is marked and worth being aware of before you follow it.

What leaves this site with you

Following an outbound commercial link passes the fact that you came from here, so the operator can attribute the visit. It does not pass anything about you, because this site holds nothing about you to pass.

Following an ordinary link to an operator's terms or licence register passes nothing but the normal referrer any browser sends.

Nothing on this site is sold, shared with data brokers or used for advertising targeting, because nothing is collected in a form that could be.

Questions people actually ask

Do you use Google Analytics?

No. Analytics here is self-hosted and aggregate, with no cross-site identifier and no profile building.

Can I read the site with tracking blocked?

Yes, entirely. Every page is static and nothing on it depends on analytics loading.