Privacy

This page lays out exactly what data this site collects, what happens to it, and how to opt out. The TL;DR: almost nothing, no cookies, no IP retention.

What this site collects

Pageviews (Matomo)

We use Matomo, a privacy-friendly analytics tool, to count how many people visit which pages. The configuration is:

No tracking cookies. Matomo cookies are explicitly disabled via disableCookies in the tracking snippet.
IP addresses anonymized at the server before storage — the last two bytes are masked (e.g. 203.0.113.x.x), so individual visitors can’t be identified.
Do Not Track honored. If your browser sends a DNT header, Matomo doesn’t collect anything from your visit at all.
No third-party data sharing. Matomo runs on infrastructure we control. Your visit isn’t sold or syndicated.
Limited retention. Individual visit logs are deleted within 180 days; aggregate pageview counts may be retained longer.

Tip submissions

When you submit a tip via the contact form, we receive what you typed (name and email are optional). What we deliberately do not receive or store:

Your IP address is not saved with the tip. A one-way SHA-256 hash of your IP is held in a separate rate-limit counter for one hour, then automatically deleted. This is solely to prevent spam abuse — the hash can’t be reversed to recover the IP.
No User-Agent, no referrer, no geolocation, no browser fingerprint.
No Matomo event is fired when you submit a tip.

Even if we received a legal subpoena, we cannot reveal a tipster’s identity from the contents of our tip storage — that information was never collected.

Spam prevention (Cloudflare Turnstile)

The tip form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to filter bots. Turnstile is a privacy-focused alternative to reCAPTCHA — it does not use cookies and does not share data with advertising networks. Cloudflare’s privacy policy governs what they see.

That’s it

No advertising trackers, no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no fingerprinting libraries, no session replay, no behavioral profiling. The full list of what loads on the site is in the Content-Security-Policy header: Cloudflare Turnstile, Matomo, Google Fonts. Nothing else.

How to opt out

You can opt out of all Matomo analytics on this site below. The opt-out is stored as a single-purpose preference in your browser. It applies only to this site (not to your other browsing).

Already not being tracked? If your browser has Do Not Track enabled, or if you use Brave / a tracker-blocking extension, Matomo is already skipping your visits. The opt-out below is for people who want belt-and-suspenders coverage.

If you contact us

If you include an email when you send a tip, we may write back. Your email isn’t added to any list, isn’t shared with anyone, and is deleted along with the tip when we’re done.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. Cloudflare may set a security cookie at the network layer (separate from Matomo, separate from us) if it detects bot-like behavior; you can read about Cloudflare’s cookie usage in their privacy policy.

Changes

If we change any of this, the new version replaces this page. There’s no mailing list, so the only way to know is to check back.

Last updated: 2026-05-23 ← Back to the record