Privacy

What this site is, technically

A static website. Pages are pre-built HTML files served from a CDN. There is no application server, no database of users, and no login.

What we collect

No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for, so there is no account data.

Analytics cookies. Google Analytics sets two cookies (_ga and _ga_<id>) so that repeat visits can be told apart. They identify a browser, not a person. We do not run an advertising network and we do not use them to follow you to other sites. What the analytics measures is below.

Local storage. Interactive pages — the phin brew calculator, the map — run entirely in your browser. If they remember a setting, it is stored in your own browser and never sent anywhere.

Server logs. Whoever hosts this site will keep standard access logs — IP address, page requested, timestamp, user agent — as every web server does. These are used to keep the site running and are not combined with anything else.

Analytics. This site uses Google Analytics 4, added on 12 September 2026. It records which pages are opened, roughly where in the world the request came from, which site or search engine sent you, and what kind of device you used. Google processes this data, not us, and Google’s own privacy policy governs what it does with it. We use it to learn which pages are worth writing more of.

We never see an IP address through it, and the reports we get are counts of pages and sources, not individuals. What Google itself retains, and for how long, is governed by Google’s privacy policy rather than by us — we have not independently verified it and would rather say so than repeat a reassurance we cannot check.

We hold nothing that identifies you personally: no email address, no name, no account.

An earlier version of this page said that if analytics were ever added, this page would say so first, along with what it measures and who processes it. That is what this paragraph is.

Third parties

Google receives one request per page load, for the analytics tag described above. That is the only third party your browser contacts while reading this site.

Fonts are served from this site, not from Google. Earlier versions of this page said otherwise; that changed when we moved to self-hosted font files.

Affiliate links go to third-party retailers. Once you click one, that retailer’s privacy policy governs what happens next — typically including a cookie identifying that you arrived from here. We do not receive your personal information from them, only aggregate commission reporting.

Hosting and CDN providers process requests to serve the site.

Your choices

There is no account, so there is nothing to delete.

To opt out of the analytics, use your browser’s tracking protection, a content blocker, or Google’s own opt-out browser add-on. The site works identically either way — nothing here is gated on being measured.

If you do not want to be tracked by an affiliate retailer, do not click the affiliate links — every product on this site is identified by name and can be searched for directly.

Changes

If this site starts collecting anything, this page changes first and says what and why.