Privacy

Effective: 7 May 2026

You’re on a static site built by one person. I’m Sam, and The Tech Edit is where I write about home setups, AI workflows, and small projects that started as curiosity. There are no accounts to create, no forms harvesting your email, no pop-ups. I built it that way because those things annoy me on other people’s sites and there’s no reason to inflict them on mine.

Here’s what actually happens when you visit.

Analytics: GA4, nothing custom

Google Analytics 4 is the only measurement tool on this site. I want to know whether anyone reads what I write, and which pieces resonate enough that people stick around. GA4 tells me that. It doesn’t tell me who you are - Google anonymises IP addresses before the data reaches me, and nothing personally identifiable gets collected.

If you’d rather not show up in those numbers, the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on handles it. Most ad blockers do too, and Brave kills GA4 tracking by default.

Fonts are self-hosted

The site uses Fraunces, IBM Plex Sans, and JetBrains Mono - all served from this domain. No third-party font CDN, no separate request to Google or anyone else for typography.

SiteGround keeps server logs

SiteGround hosts this site. They log the usual things: IP addresses, browser types, pages requested, timestamps. Every hosting provider does this. I don’t dig through those logs myself, and SiteGround manages their own retention schedules.

No ads. No profiling. No selling your data.

The only thing I use analytics for is figuring out what to write more of. There’s no advertising on this site and I don’t build audience profiles.

Exactly two cookies

Both are set by GA4. _ga persists for 2 years, _ga_* for 24 hours. They exist so Google Analytics can distinguish one visit from another. Nothing else on this site sets a cookie.

External links go to other people’s sites

I link out to resources, tools, and references throughout my writing. When you follow one of those links, you leave The Tech Edit and land on a domain I don’t control, with whatever privacy practices that site’s owner has chosen.

Your browser, your rules

Cookie blockers, ad blockers, Firefox’s strict tracking protection - the site works fine with all of it. Questions about something I haven’t covered here? Get in touch.

Changes to this policy

When something changes about how this site handles data, I’ll rewrite the relevant section here and update the effective date at the top.