Privacy policy

This policy covers circuittimes.com. The short version: we keep very little about you, and most of what the site stores never leaves your own browser.

What gets recorded when you visit

Server logs

Our hosting provider keeps routine server logs, as nearly every website does. They note details such as IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time, and we use them only for security and troubleshooting.

Reading counts

To learn which guides are useful, the site adds one to a daily total for an article when it is read. That total is a bare number, with no IP address, cookie or identifier attached.

Helpful or not

Answers to the question at the end of each guide are added to totals for that article, along with any reason picked. Nothing about who answered is kept.

Newsletter sign-ups

If you join the newsletter, your email address is held by our email service provider so we can send it. Each issue has an unsubscribe link, and we will delete your address on request.

Messages to us

Emails you send are kept so we can reply and follow up. They are not used for marketing.

What stays in your browser

A few small values live in your browser's local storage: your light or dark mode choice, checklist progress, whether you answered the feedback question and whether today's visit was already counted.

They never leave your device, and clearing your browser data removes them.

Ads and cookies

Ads on the site come from Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to show ads based on a person's earlier visits to this site and to other websites.

Those advertising cookies let Google and its partners tailor ads according to browsing across the web, including visits here.

Personalized ads can be switched off in Google's Ads Settings, and many other vendors' advertising cookies can be declined at aboutads.info.

Google describes how it handles data from sites like ours on its partner sites page.

Where the law requires consent, including the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we ask before personalized ads are shown. The privacy message on the site lets you change your answer.

Why we use it

• Keeping the site running, secure and fast.
• Spotting which guides help and which need revising.
• Sending the newsletter to people who signed up.
• Answering messages.
• Showing the ads that fund the site.

Personal information is never sold.

How long it is kept

Server logs are held for a limited period by our hosting provider. Reading counts and feedback totals carry no personal information and are kept while they stay useful.

Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, privacy law may let you see, correct or erase personal information we hold about you, or object to how it is used.

Send requests to privacy@circuittimes.com, and we will answer within the period the law sets.

Children

The site is written for a general audience and is not aimed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect their personal information.

Changes

If our handling of information changes, this page and the date at its foot will change with it.