Privacy

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Counting visits

This site counts visits to see how it's used. The counting runs on a server in Germany (EU), operated by Siftware Ltd, who built this site. It sets no cookies and sends nothing to other companies.

For each page you view, it records the page address without its query string (apart from campaign tags such as utm_source), the site you came from, your browser's language, your country, the type of device, and the browser and operating system families.

To count visitors without following them, the server makes a one-way code from your IP address, your browser's user agent and a value that changes every day and is then deleted. Visits can't be linked from one day to the next. Your IP address and user agent are used in memory to make that code, find your country, filter out bots and limit abuse, then dropped; they aren't stored.

If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, your visit isn't counted. You can also use the "Opt out of analytics" button at the foot of each page. It stores one setting, sa_optout, in your browser's local storage. It isn't a cookie and holds nothing about you. The same button opts you back in.

Visit records are deleted after 90 days. Totals by day, page and source are kept for 13 months.

The legal basis is a legitimate interest in knowing how this site is used. UK law allows this counting without asking first, as long as you're told and can object (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, Schedule A1, paragraph 5).

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of what's held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Last updated 3 November 2026.