What we collect
There is no account to create. One form on this site sends something to us — the suggestion box — and what it sends is described in its own section below. Everything else is the ordinary record of a web request, plus what the analytics and advertising tags collect.
- Request data: your IP address, browser and device type, the page you asked for and the page you came from. This is what any web server receives, and it is what our host processes to deliver the page and to block abuse.
- Guide views: opening a guide increments its public view counter. Our API briefly remembers the requesting IP — about fifteen minutes — so a reload is not counted twice, and then forgets it. The counter itself is a number per guide, with nothing attached to it.
- Analytics and advertising: whatever Google Analytics, Google AdSense and Adcash collect. The two Google tags follow the consent defaults described below; Adcash does not.
- In your browser only: your theme choice and your ticked checklist rows. These are written to local storage on your device and are never transmitted to us.
- Email: if you write to us, we keep the message and your address for as long as it takes to deal with it.
- The suggestion box: the text you typed and the time you sent it. See below.
Links you send us
If you use the suggestion box, we store two things: what you typed, and the time you sent it. Nothing else — no name and no email, because we never asked you for either.
No IP address of yours is stored with it. The submission reaches us through our own server and is passed on from there, so the address on the record is that server's rather than yours, and nothing on the row points back at you. The box is kept from being flooded by a rate limit, which needs no record of who used it. The ordinary request data described above still applies here, exactly as it does on any other page of the site.
The text itself is read by a person, who decides whether it is worth turning into a guide. Sending one is entirely optional and nothing on the site depends on it. If you want a suggestion removed, write to us and say roughly what you sent and when — there is no account to look it up by, so that is what we have to go on.
How we use it
To serve the pages, to keep the site up, and to see which guides are read and how far — which is how we decide what to cover next. Advertising pays for the catalogue, so the site carries ads and measures them.
We do not sell personal data, we do not buy it from brokers, and we build no profile of you ourselves. We do not send marketing email, because we have no list to send it to.
Who else is involved
Four parties see anything, and this is the whole list. Two of them are Google, and both follow the consent state described above. Adcash does not read that signal, which is why its script is withheld from the page entirely rather than asked to behave. Transfers outside the EEA rely on standard contractual clauses.
- Cloudflare: serves every page and every image, and so processes the request data described above.
- Google Analytics 4: which pages are read and how far. IP truncated at collection.
- Google AdSense: the advertising on the site, and the measurement of it.
- Adcash: a second advertising network, serving ads alongside AdSense and setting its own cookies to do it.
Your rights
If you are in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, the GDPR and its equivalents give you the right to access the data held about you, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, and complain to your local supervisory authority.
If you are in California, Colorado, Connecticut or another US state with a privacy law, you have the right to opt out of the sharing that advertising measurement involves. "Your Privacy Choices" at the bottom of any page is that control, and we honour a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser without being asked.
In practice there is very little here to act on: we hold no account, no profile and no contact details for you unless you have emailed us. A request about the data an advertising or analytics tag holds is best made to that company — Google or Adcash — whose own controls sit outside this site; we will help where we can. Consent you have given can be withdrawn at any time through "Your Privacy Choices", through the same prompt that asked for it, or through your browser's cookie controls.
Ask anything, including a deletion request, at support@guides-factory.com, and we will answer within thirty days.
Contact
Questions about this policy, a data request, or a takedown notice go to support@guides-factory.com. Security reports go to security@guides-factory.com — we will confirm receipt within two business days.
This page describes how the site works today; it is a plain-language statement of practice, not legal advice.