Privacy
What we record, briefly.
When you click a retailer link from our site, we log the click for attribution: the campaign you came from, the product you clicked, and a hashed form of your IP and user-agent. We do not store raw IP or raw user-agent.
We do not run any third-party analytics, trackers, ad pixels, or tag managers. We do not have a cookie consent banner because we do not set tracking cookies.
We do not sell or share data with third parties. The retailer you click through to has its own privacy practices that are separate from ours.
If you have questions about your data with us, contact us through the retailer attribution chain. We do not maintain a personal-data lookup endpoint because we do not retain personal data in a lookable form.
What we log and why
For every click on a retailer link, we record:
- Which list and which product. So we can credit the right list when a sale completes, and so we can see which picks resonate enough to read about and act on.
- A hashed IP and a hashed user-agent. The hash is one-way; we cannot recover the original IP or browser string from it. We use the hashes to deduplicate accidental double-clicks and to detect obvious bot traffic.
- The referring page, when the browser sends one. So we know whether you came from the homepage, a category page, or another list.
- Standard UTM parameters, when present in the URL. So we can credit the campaign that brought you to the page (this matters for the editorial work we do with paid traffic).
What we do not have
The simplest privacy story is the one with no third parties in it. Phase 1 of this site has none:
- No third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no Segment, no Mixpanel.
- No tracking pixels. No Meta Pixel, no TikTok Pixel, no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no advertising network beacons.
- No tag managers. No Google Tag Manager, no Tealium, no third-party tag injector of any kind.
- No tracking cookies. The only state we set in your browser is what is required to render the page; nothing is set for the purpose of tracking you across visits or sites.
If a future change adds anything in this list, we will update this page before it ships.
Once you click through
Once you land on the retailer's site, you are subject to the retailer's privacy practices, not ours. Their cookie banner, their analytics, and their tracking are theirs to disclose. We have no control over and no visibility into what they do with your visit beyond the affiliate-attribution callback that lets us credit the list.