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Privacy

This page outlines what personal data we (https://www.shedloadofcode.com), and services we use, collect.

Analytics

This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics to track and measure usage. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use any client-side state, such as cookies or localStorage, to collect usage metrics. It does not collect any personal information, or track users across sites.

You can read Cloudflare's Privacy Policy, GDPR compliance page, and their Web Analytics page within their Trust Hub for more information.

This website also uses a self-made lightweight analytics solution to measure usage and compare / validate against Cloudflare Web Analytics. This allows us to record some simple stats on how the site is being received, how many visitors and page views we received, which pages are popular and which need improving. It doesn't use any cookies, only records anonymous data and is a privacy-first setup. You can read more about the setup in the creating your own website analytics solution with AWS Lambda and Google Sheets article.

Comments

The website uses Utterances for leaving comments at the bottom of articles. Utterances is lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. To comment, you must authorize the utterances app to post on your behalf using the GitHub OAuth flow. You can also comment on the GitHub issue directly. Therefore no information is held by this website. The data is stored in a public repository on GitHub.

If you want to edit or delete any comments you have made, you can go to the public repository, then find the article you commented on. Alternatively, at the top of the comments section on the article page, click 'Comments' in 'Comments - powered by utteranc.es'. All of the comments for that article are contained in the issue, and can be updated or deleted if you are the owner.

You can also read GitHub's Privacy Statement.

Email subscription

If you subscribe to the mailing list, you accept that you will receive occasional emails when:

  • a new article is released on the blog
  • products and tools are added to the store
  • there is a piece of tech news worth sharing
  • there are any offers or promotions active or upcoming

The platform used for emails is Sender. Sender is based in Europe, and works hard to ensure that the platform is compliant with GDPR.

At the end of every email there is an option to opt-out of future emails. You can do this at any time.

As part of Sender's analytics features, emails sent via the Sender platform record whether you have opened the email, or opened a link in it. This is only to understand how helpful our emails are and how much they are used.

You can read the Sender Privacy Policy to find out more.

This website has no control over and accepts no liability in respect of what happens after a Sender link is clicked. Any cookies or other tracking identifiers are placed outside of this site. This site uses only neccessary cookies outlined in our use of Cookies. While every effort will be taken to ensure that the correct link is provided and vetted, it is your responsibility to vet the link before clicking on it.

The only affiliates network currently used is impact.com

Some of the links in our articles are affiliate links. There is also small non-intrusive privacy-first display ad that links to our affiliate sites in the bottom left corner of the page. This means if you click on an affiliate link and purchase or subscribe, we will receive a commission. All opinions and recommendations remain objective and impartial.

Much of any money earned through display ads or affiliate links will go back into the running and maintenance costs of this site to keep providing quality articles and tools.

To track link clicks, impact.com provides tracking links. Below are some excerpts from impact.com outlining what and why tracking links are used.

In order to direct traffic to brands and generate revenue, media partners must place a tracking link to their media property. The tracking link allows impact.com to track all clicks and actions driven by partners. impact.com allows partners to easily generate tracking links, with the option to specify any sub IDs and a shared ID

This link will track any actions you drive when promoting a specific brand. You can place the link on your site and attach it to an image or text that you have created. Any customer that selects the image or text will be redirected to the advertiser's landing page, and the click will be tracked by impact.com

You can read more about tracking links in the impact.com Help Center.

You read the full impact.com Privacy policy.

Finally, you can also read our Affiliates disclaimer.

This website has no control over and accepts no liability in respect of what happens after a tracking link is clicked. Any cookies or other tracking identifiers are placed outside of this site. This site uses only neccessary cookies outlined in our use of Cookies statement. While every effort will be taken to ensure that the correct link is provided and vetted, it is your responsibility to vet the link before clicking on it.

Feedback Form

This website uses a feedback form created with Microsoft Forms. This is to understand how the site is being received and to improve it in the future. All responses are anonymous. Please do not leave any personal information on the form such as your name or address and never give out your credit card number or passwords. By using the form you agree that any personal information you enter on the form, you do so at your own risk. The data you submit will be sent to us (the form owner). The data you submit will only be used to improve the site and create articles you are interested in. It will not be shared with any third party.

You can also read Microsoft's Privacy Statement, Terms of use and articles Security and Privacy in Microsoft Forms and Data storage for Microsoft Forms for more information.

YouTube Videos

Articles may contain YouTube videos to enhance or explain tutorials. We use privacy-enhanced mode which allows embedding of YouTube videos without using cookies that track viewing behaviour. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information as a result. Read more about about privacy-enhanced mode under manage video embedding options at YouTube's embedding videos information page.

You can also read YouTube's Privacy Policy for more information.