Privacy

Updated 21 October 2026, the day we last read a source.

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This site sets no cookies and runs no advertising. Its page-view script is described in How we count visits below.

A content network serves the site for us. To deliver pages and to block floods of requests, it handles your IP address and your request. We do not keep your IP address.

We count visits and page views from what your browser sends with every request. A small script counts each page view, sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. It runs once the page has loaded and is shown, and it reads no cookie, file or storage on your device. It reads the page's path, the address of the page you came from without anything after "?", the three campaign tags, and one browser setting that says whether the browser is run by automation. A browser run by automation is not counted as a page view. We note every page a browser opens, every request from a known crawler and one in ten of the other requests.

Each note says which kind of page was asked for, the answer given and how long it took. For a page a browser opens, and for the crawlers of search engines checked against their published addresses, it also says which page it was. It can also hold the address of the page you came from, if your browser sends it, without anything after "?" (only the site's name for webmail and similar private services); the campaign tags of the link you followed (utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign); your country; the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer); and a visitor code.

The visitor code is a number of 16 bits made from your IP address, your browser's user agent, the site and the date. It changes every day and is made differently for each website, so it cannot link your visits from one day to the next or from one website to another. It lets us estimate how many different visitors came in a day. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we make no visitor code, and your page view still counts in the totals.

We never keep your IP address, the text of your browser's user agent, any cookie or anything read from your device. Your IP address and user agent are used only while your request is answered: to make the visitor code, to tell browsers from crawlers and to see the kind of device.

The content network deletes these notes after about three months, and we keep nothing from them after that.

Our counts are estimates, not counts of people: some programs pass for browsers, and the number of different visitors in a day is worked out from the visitor codes, not counted.

If you write to us, we receive your address and what you write. We use it only to answer you and to act on what you asked, and we keep it as long as that takes. The service that receives mail for this site forwards it to our mailbox.

Our lawful basis is legitimate interests, under the UK GDPR and the GDPR: to run the site, keep it working, learn which pages are read and how people find them, and answer the people who write to us.

We weighed counting visits against your privacy, and count in the way that tells us least about any one visitor: the counting stores nothing on your device, keeps no IP address, uses a visitor code that changes every day, and its notes are deleted after about three months.

We decide how the personal data described here is used. Write to us about anything on this page; the address is on the contact page.

You can ask us what we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it or to stop using it, by writing to us at the address on the contact page. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.

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