Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 28, 2026

What we collect

If you subscribe to the newsletter, we store your email address. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first, cookieless measurement tool that does not fingerprint or track you across sites.

Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics (loaded directly) to understand which articles are read. It sets first-party cookies (_ga, _ga_*) and sends pseudonymous usage data to Google, which processes it under Google's privacy policy. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.

Advertising

Advertising is served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites and to measure them. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits here and elsewhere; you can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings or at aboutads.info. The vendors Google works with are listed here. Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before advertising cookies are set.

Local storage

We use your browser's local storage for two things: remembering that you dismissed the cookie notice, and limiting how often a sponsored message is shown to you. Nothing in it identifies you, and it never leaves your device.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links are affiliate links. When you click one, the destination site may set its own cookies under its own policy. We do not receive personal information about you from them.

Hosting

The site runs on Cloudflare's network. Cloudflare processes standard server logs (IP address, user agent, request URL) to deliver and protect the site, under their privacy policy.

Reviews

If you leave a review, we store the name you enter, your comment and rating, the email address if you give one (never displayed) and a salted hash of your IP address to prevent abuse. Reviews are moderated before they appear.

Your rights

To unsubscribe, have a review removed or have your email deleted, write to hello@crochetnet.com from the address in question and we will remove it.