Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Updated 24 October 2026.

What we collect when you visit. Our server logs your IP address, browser and the pages you request, to keep the site running and secure. We keep these logs for 14 days.

Accounts. New registrations are closed. For existing accounts we store your username, email address and an encrypted password.

Comments. Comments are run by Disqus, under Disqus’s privacy policy.

Advertising and cookies. We show ads from Google (AdSense and Google Ad Manager). Google and its partners use cookies to show you ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can turn off personalised ads in Google’s My Ad Center, and read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Analytics. We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read.

Visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads and analytics cookies are used, and can change their choice at any time from the privacy settings link on the page.

Visitors in US states with privacy laws (such as California, Colorado, Connecticut and Virginia) can opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information for advertising with the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link on the page.

We don’t sell your personal information. We share it only with the services named above, or when the law requires it.

Questions: privacy at the-leaky-cauldron.org.