Privacy Policy for This AlphaSteel Guide
This is a static guide. It has no accounts, no shopping cart and no database of readers. The short version: we collect almost nothing, and what little exists is described below without euphemism.
What reaches us when you read a page
Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs: the address of the page requested, the time, a truncated network address, the browser identifier and the referring page. Logs are used to keep the site up and to spot abuse, they are not linked to a person, and they are rotated on the host's own schedule.
What we set in your browser
No analytics cookies, no advertising pixels, no cross-site trackers and no consent wall, because there is nothing to consent to. One item of session storage is used, and only if you dismiss the offer bar at the bottom of the screen, so it stays dismissed while the tab is open. It disappears when you close the tab and it contains no personal data.
Fonts and external requests
Typefaces are requested from Google Fonts, which means your browser contacts Google's servers to fetch them and Google receives the request in the normal course of serving a file. No other third-party resource is loaded on these pages.
When you click through to the maker
Leaving this guide for the maker's ordering page hands you to a site with its own privacy policy, which is the one that governs your order, your address and your payment. Affiliate tracking may record that the visit came from here. We never see your name, your card, your order contents or what you paid. Read the disclosure for how that arrangement works.
If you write to the desk we keep the message and your address for as long as it takes to answer, plus a reasonable period for our records if it concerns a correction. We do not add correspondents to a mailing list, because there is no mailing list. We never ask for card numbers or passwords and you should never send them.
Children
This guide covers an adult product and is not directed at anyone under 18.
Your requests
Depending on where you live you may have a right to ask what we hold, to have it corrected or to have it deleted. Given how little exists, the answer is usually a short one. Write to editor@ealphasteel.com and we will respond within a month.
Changes
If this policy changes, the reviewed date at the top changes with it. Questions go to the same address, or through the contact page.