Privacy policy
The short version: we collect no personal data directly, have no accounts, and show no ads. We use Google Analytics to count visits. On your first visit a dialog asks you to choose: "Accept required" counts visits without cookies, and "Accept all" also allows analytics cookies (details below).
What we collect
Directly: nothing. There are no accounts, no comment forms, no newsletters, and no advertising pixels. Reading this site does not require telling us who you are. The one measurement tool we use is described under Analytics below.
Analytics and your cookie choice
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to measure traffic, configured with Google's Consent Mode. Analytics storage is denied by default. On your first visit a dialog asks you to choose between two equal buttons, and the page stays readable behind it.
- Accept required: Google's tag sets no analytics cookies. It sends only cookieless pings, which Google uses for aggregate and modelled counts. They include the page viewed, referrer, approximate location, and browser and device type, and your IP address (which Google Analytics 4 does not log or store).
- Accept all: the tag also sets first-party cookies so visits and sessions can be linked together.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as "Accept required" and do not ask. We use the reports in aggregate to see which pages people read; we do not try to identify individual visitors. Google processes this data under its privacy policy. You can change your choice at any time from the "Cookie choices" link in the footer, or opt out entirely with Google's browser add-on. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, also adds its own Web Analytics script to pages it serves. It is a cookieless, aggregate measurement tool (page views, referrers, country, browser and device type) and runs regardless of your choice above.
Hosting and server logs
The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any host, Cloudflare processes connection data (IP addresses, request URLs, user agents) to deliver pages and defend against abuse, under its own policies. We do not receive or store those logs ourselves.
If you email contact@cleanonpaper.com (for a correction, say) we receive your address and message and use them only to respond and to fix what you reported. Correction emails may be kept as an editorial record; ask and we will delete yours.
YouTube embeds
Some pages include videos. They render as a static thumbnail until you
press play; nothing loads from Google before that. When you click, the player loads
from youtube-nocookie.com (YouTube’s reduced-tracking mode) and
from that point Google’s privacy
policy and terms apply to your interaction with the player. Don’t click,
and Google never hears about your visit from us.
Cookies
Only if you choose "Accept all", Google Analytics sets analytics cookies (typically named
_ga and _ga_ followed by an identifier) that distinguish visits
and sessions. The site itself stores your choice in your browser's local storage (a
record named cleanonpaper-consent, not a cookie) so the dialog does not
reappear, and sets no other cookies. You can change your choice at any time from "Cookie
choices" in the footer.
Advertising not currently active
There is currently no advertising and no ad technology on the site. If advertising is ever enabled, this section will be updated before it goes live to describe exactly what the ad provider collects, and the change will be dated at the top of this page. Until then, no ad networks receive anything about your visit.
Your rights
Since we hold essentially no personal data, most data-rights requests will have a short answer, but you are always welcome to ask what we have (likely: your email, if you wrote to us) and to request its deletion. Residents of jurisdictions with privacy laws (PIPEDA and BC PIPA in Canada, GDPR in Europe, and others) can exercise their rights via contact@cleanonpaper.com.
Changes
Changes to this policy appear on this page with an updated date. Material changes get a note on the about page as well.