PRIVACY AND OTHER POLICIES

Yes, yes. It's one of those pages.

No cookies, no tracking, no analytics, no T&C, no data sharing or selling or any of that happens here. There's no annoying cooking banner because there's no cookies. So tidy, eh? Here's the only cookie you're going to find here: 🍪.
The site is hosted in Switzerland.
It's built on PureBlog and utilises PureComments. If you like the look of them and would like to try them yourself, they're both free, open source software by Kev Quirk.
The only time your data is collected is if you choose to leave a comment. The only info required to leave a comment is a name of some kind and the comment itself. You can put in an email and/or a website, but you don't have to do either.
If you choose to put in your email, that isn't published, is stored encrypted, and is only ever used to automatically notify you if someone replies to your comment.
If you choose to put in your website, that is published alongside so your comment.
That data stays unless comments or the site are deleted. If you ever want a comment or all your comments removed, just drop me a line and I'll nuke them for you the next time I'm online. My email is hermitmonster @ proton dot me (remove the spaces and swap the word "dot" for a dot).
In the extremely unlikely event of a data breach related to this site affecting anyone, I will state what has happened and what I've done about it.

All comments get moderated before they get published. I'm not obligated to approve any of them, and I'm not going to allow any through that in any way constitute abuse, spam, harassment, or someone being a dick.
Which isn't to say that people can't disagree with me or anyone else, but if you can't be respectful, you can go somewhere else. BYE.

All work on this site is my own unless stated otherwise. (c) The Hermit, 2026 and all that. It's also all my own work and not that of AI.
I give credit where credit is due and always give attribution when I'm using someone else's stuff. Feel free to let me know if I've ever stuffed that up.
The usual practices of linking, quoting or sharing an excerpt from here are fine by me, just credit me. You don't know my real name? Just put in "The Hermit" and point to here. Easy As.
If you'd like to re-use things in a more substantive or a commercial way, drop me a line first. Here's my email again: hermitmonster @ proton dot me.

Better not forget this bit. All thoughts, opinions etc expressed here are my own and not my employer's or anyone else's.