The short version: this site runs no ads, sells nothing, and does not sell or share what it learns about you. It collects only what it needs to answer you, publish your comments, send you posts you asked for, and count visits to its pages.
When you write to us
The contact form asks for your name, your email address, and your message. They are stored in this site’s WordPress database and emailed to us, and we use them only to reply. Before the message reaches us, it is checked for spam by Akismet, a service run by Automattic, which receives what you wrote along with your IP address and browser details.
When you comment
A comment stores the name, email address, and website you enter, plus your IP address and browser details, and is checked for spam by Akismet. Your email address is never shown. If you have a Gravatar, the profile picture linked to your email address appears with your comment; to find it, a scrambled form of the address (a hash) is sent to Gravatar, also run by Automattic. You can also sign in to comment with a WordPress.com account.
When you subscribe
If you subscribe to posts by email, your address is kept by WordPress.com so it can send them. Every email has a link to unsubscribe.
When you read the site
We count visits with Jetpack Stats, a service run by Automattic. When you load a page, your browser sends Automattic your IP address, the address of the page, the address of the page that linked you to it, the time, and your browser’s type and language. If you are logged in to WordPress.com, it also sends your account ID and username. Automattic also measures how quickly the page loads.
From this we see totals: how many visits each page had, where they came from, and from which countries. We cannot see your IP address or anything else that identifies you. Automattic says it keeps the logs that hold IP addresses for 28 days and uses them only to produce these statistics.
If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, the statistics scripts are not loaded. Your visit is not counted and nothing about it is sent to Jetpack Stats. The page-speed measurement is added by the host, not by us, and still runs.
Hosting and other services
The site is hosted on WordPress.com, and features such as images, search, and subscriptions run through Jetpack, which connects to WordPress.com. Like any web host, its servers keep standard logs of requests, including IP addresses. Images may be served from Automattic’s image network rather than from this site directly. Automattic handles that information under its own privacy policy. The site’s fonts are served from this site, not from a third party.
Cookies
Reading the site sets one cookie, tk_ai. It comes from Automattic’s statistics script and holds a random ID that does not say who you are. It is not set if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. You can also block or delete it, and the site will work the same. WordPress also sets cookies if you choose to have the comment form remember you, and when editors log in.
How long we keep things, and deleting them
- Messages from the contact form: kept while we are corresponding, and deleted twelve months after the last reply.
- Plugin nominations: what you wrote about the plugin may be kept for research. Your name and email are deleted once we have followed up, or after twelve months, whichever comes first.
- Comments: stay with the post they belong to. Ask, and we will delete a comment or remove your name and email from it.
- Email subscriptions: kept until you unsubscribe.
- Visit statistics: Automattic keeps the logs that hold IP addresses for 28 days. The totals we see do not identify anyone.
To have anything deleted sooner, write to us through the contact form using the email address you used before. WordPress will send that address a link to confirm the request is yours, and we will delete what we hold within 30 days.
What you can ask for
You can ask what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, through the contact form.
Last updated October 5, 2026.