Privacy

Short version: this site sets no cookies and shows no ads. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, counts visits without cookies. We keep nothing about you unless you subscribe or email us.

SteadyVane is a static website. It sets no cookies and runs no advertising. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, adds its Web Analytics script to each page: it counts page views and visits by page, country, browser, operating system, device type (phone, tablet or desktop) and the site a visitor came from. It also measures how fast pages load. Cloudflare says it uses no cookies for this and does not fingerprint visitors. If you email hello@steadyvane.com, Cloudflare forwards your message, with your address, to the operator's inbox.

If you subscribe to the weekly email, the signup form sends your email address straight to Kit (kit.com), the service that sends the email. It is used only to send you that email. Kit asks you to confirm first, every email carries an unsubscribe link, and Kit records whether an email is opened and which of its links are clicked; Kit's own privacy policy covers that data. The form is plain HTML: no script from Kit runs on this site. We never sell or share addresses.

Apart from an email you send us or a subscription, we keep no personal data.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address as part of serving the font files.

Video thumbnails and repository pictures are loaded from YouTube's and GitHub's image servers (i.ytimg.com, opengraph.githubassets.com), which receive your IP address as part of serving them; the page address is not sent to them. A video plays on this site only when you press its play button: only then does it load from YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com), and YouTube's privacy policy applies to it. The site's own small script runs that play button and the "Copy link" button. It also hides a picture that fails to load. It sends nothing anywhere.

The site republishes only public information from the sources it tracks (titles, links, and public engagement counts). To have an item removed, email hello@steadyvane.com or contact the operator through the X account linked in the footer.