We have nothing to track
Most sites greet you with a box asking permission to follow you around the internet, usually with a bright "accept all" and a greyed-out "reject" buried two clicks away. You will not get one here, because there is nothing to ask. This site sets no tracking cookies, runs no analytics, builds no profile of you, and embeds no third-party pixels or share buttons that phone home. There is nothing to accept and nothing to reject.
That is not a courtesy. It is the same point the rest of the site makes, turned on ourselves: a guide that warns you about being harvested cannot quietly harvest you.
What we do not do#
- No analytics, first-party or third-party. We do not count you, track your path, or measure your attention.
- No advertising or tracking cookies, and no pixels from advertising networks or social platforms.
- No fingerprinting, no session recording, no "anonymous" profiles that turn out not to be.
- No email wall, no lead magnet, no list. You can read every word without telling us who you are.
The little that does happen#
Serving a web page means your browser asks our host for files and the host briefly handles that request to send them back, which is how the internet works for every site you visit. Two ordinary things follow from that, and we would rather tell you than have you find them. Our host may keep short-lived technical logs for security and to keep the service running. And our host's network sets one strictly necessary cookie to tell automated bots from real visitors: it is a security measure, not a way to track you, the rules treat it as essential, and so it needs no consent and gets no banner. If we ever add a single optional setting, such as a light or dark theme, it is stored only in your own browser and is never sent to us or anyone else.
If you email us#
The one piece of personal information we ever handle is an email you choose to send, for a correction, a complaint or a question, to hello@kilnguides.co.uk. Kiln Guides is the controller for that. We use your message to deal with the thing you wrote about, we keep it only as long as that takes plus a record of any correction it led to, and we never add you to a list, share your address, or contact you about anything other than your own message. If you want what you sent deleted once it is resolved, say so and it will be.
If that ever changes#
If we ever needed something that genuinely tracked you, we would ask plainly, in clear words, with refusing exactly as easy as agreeing, and we would say so here first. We do not expect to, because the whole design is built to need nothing from you but your attention while you read.