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Privacy
The short version: this site sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics, embeds nothing from
anybody else, and has no accounts, no forms and no newsletter. Reading it leaves the same trace as
reading any web page, a line in a server log, and nothing more.
The whole of it
| Data | Why | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Server log: IP address, time, page, browser string | Security and fault-finding. Written automatically by the web server, as on any site | Up to 30 days |
| Email you send us | To answer you, and to keep a record of a correction | Up to 24 months |
There is no third row. No profiling, no advertising identifiers, nothing sold or shared for
marketing.
Nothing to consent to
None are set by this site, and there is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
Our content delivery network may set one strictly necessary cookie for security; it carries no
profile and cannot follow you to other sites.
Once you leave
Following an outbound link takes you to a company with its own privacy policy, its own cookies
and its own practices, none of which we control. Where a link is an affiliate link, the operator may
record that the visit came from here, usually as a code in the address rather than anything
identifying you. See the affiliate disclosure.
What you can ask for
Under Canadian privacy law you can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or
deleted, and withdraw from any of it. Write to the desk; there is no charge
and we answer within thirty days. If the answer does not satisfy you, the Office of the Privacy
Commissioner of Canada takes complaints at
priv.gc.ca.
If this page moves
If this policy changes the date above changes with it, and a change that widens what is collected
will be flagged on the front page as well.