Privacy Policy

This policy describes what this site does with information about the people who read it. It describes what actually happens, checked against the code that runs the site, rather than repeating a general-purpose template covering features this site does not have.

Last updated: 29 September 2026

The short version

• There is no advertising network, no tracking pixel and no tag manager on this site, and no analytics product of any kind. We count how many times each listing’s outward link is used — one number per tool, attached to nothing about you.
• Reading it sets no cookies at all. That is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.
• There are no user accounts and no comments. There is nothing to sign up for.
• The only information we deliberately collect is what you type into the submission form, and you only meet that form if you choose to.
• Nothing is sold, rented or passed to anyone for marketing.

Reading the site

Like every website, this one runs on a web server, and the server keeps standard access logs: the IP address a request came from, the time, the page requested, and the browser’s user agent string. That is how web hosting works rather than a choice we made. Those logs exist for security and for diagnosing faults, are held by our hosting provider under its own arrangements, and are not used to build any profile of a reader.

How long those logs are kept is set by the hosting provider and not by us, so we do not state a period here. Naming one we had not verified would be worse than saying plainly that it is the host’s to decide.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies for ordinary readers. Not for analytics, not for advertising, not for preferences.

WordPress sets cookies for signed-in administrators when they log in to manage the site. Those are not set for visitors, and there is nothing here for a visitor to sign in to.

Things stored in your own browser

Two small pieces of information are kept in your browser’s local storage. Local storage is not a cookie: it is never attached to a request and never reaches our server. We cannot read it and we do not receive it.

• Your light or dark theme choice, so the site does not flash the wrong colour scheme the next time you open a page.
• Which tools you have hyped. The list of listings you have voted for stays on your device. The server records only a number on each listing — how many votes it has — and never which browser or person cast them. Clearing your browser data clears the list; the vote count stays where it is.

So that a vote counter is not trivially spammable, the vote endpoint keeps a short count of how many votes have come from a given network address in the past hour. That counter is keyed to a one-way hash of the IP address, holds nothing else, is never linked to a listing or to a person, and expires by itself after an hour.

Submitting a tool

If you use the submission form we store what you send: the tool’s name, its website address, the category and pricing you selected, your description of it, your email address if you chose to give one, and the IP address the submission came from. The IP address is kept because a submission form that cannot tell one sender from another cannot be defended against abuse.

Submissions are saved in this site’s own database as unpublished drafts, and are emailed to the person who reviews them so that they are actually read. Your email address is used to reply to you about that submission and for nothing else — no newsletter, no marketing, and it is never passed on. Neither your email address nor your IP address is published on the site.

The form uses no captcha, deliberately. A captcha would send your browser to a third party on every visit to that page, and we would rather not make you pay for our spam problem.

A submission is stored on this site as a record, with the email address and IP address that came with it. We do not delete reviewed submissions on a timer, and we would rather say so than claim a tidy retention rule we do not actually run: the record is what tells us later where a listing came from and who proposed it. What we do guarantee is the other half — any submission, and the email and IP stored with it, is deleted on request, without needing a reason.

Third parties your browser contacts

We embed no trackers. One thing on this site makes your browser talk to another company, and you are owed it plainly:

• Tool logos. Logos are loaded from each vendor’s own servers rather than copied onto ours, so opening a listing page means your browser asks that vendor’s server for its logo, and that server sees your IP address the way any server does. We chose this because re-hosting other companies’ logos is not ours to do — but it is a real consequence and it belongs in this policy rather than out of it.

The typeface is served from this site’s own server rather than a font network, so simply opening a page announces your visit to nobody but us.

Following any outbound link takes you to a third party whose own policies then apply. Where a link carries an affiliate code, that company can tell the visit came from here; that is disclosed on the listing page and in the affiliate disclosure.

Counting outward clicks

Every “Visit site” button passes through an address on this site before it reaches the tool. That hop does one thing: it adds one to a number kept against that listing, and sends you on.

What is stored is a single whole number per tool, and the date it last moved — this listing’s link has been used 47 times. Nothing is stored beside it. No cookie, no identifier, no address, no time of day, nothing that could be narrowed back to a person or joined to anything else. We could not tell you which of those clicks were yours, because we did not keep anything that would say.

We count it because the referral is the only thing this directory produces, and because choosing which of ten thousand listings deserves the next hour of work without it is guesswork. The alternative was an analytics product, which would set a cookie and send your reading to another company. We would rather keep one number ourselves.

What we do not do

We do not sell or rent information about readers. We do not run advertising networks or retargeting. We do not build profiles, do not try to identify individual readers, and do not combine what little we hold with data from anywhere else. There is no newsletter and no mailing list.

Asking us about your information

If you have sent a submission and want to know what is held, want it corrected, or want it deleted, write to us and say so. A submission and its email address will be deleted on request. There is nothing else held about an ordinary reader that could be looked up — no account, no profile, no history.

Send requests through the contact page, choosing the subject that fits. Use the same email address the submission was sent from where you can — it is the simplest way for us to match a request to a record without asking you for anything further.

Children

This site is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top says when it last did. A policy describing an older version of the site is worse than no policy, so this page is updated alongside the code rather than after it.