Privacy
How this site handles reader data and consent.
What we store
Your recent searches and your session-replay choice sit in your browser’s local storage. Clearing your browser data removes them. Other services, including any advertising service added later, are described separately below.
Audience measurement
We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see which guides people read. It is cookieless: it sets nothing on your device, does not follow you between sites, and does not build a profile of you. What we see is aggregate — how many people read a page, roughly where in the world they were, which page sent them, and whether they were on a phone or a desktop. We cannot tell who you are from any of it.
Session replay, only if you allow it
We would like to record anonymised session replays — what people click and where they get stuck — using Microsoft Clarity. Unlike the counting above, this sets cookies and it does not run unless you say yes. Decline and the script is never loaded at all; the site behaves identically.
When it is on, Clarity records page interactions and sets its own cookies (_clck, _clsk) to link a session together. Microsoft is the data processor and its terms apply. Text you type into inputs is masked by default. This control applies to session replay; any advertising choices will be explained separately if advertising is added.
Advertising
Display advertising may support this publication. Before an advertising network is enabled, we will update this page to identify the provider, explain its use of cookies or similar technologies, and describe the consent and opt-out choices that apply. Advertisers do not control our editorial recommendations.
Server logs
This site is hosted on Vercel, which records standard request logs (IP address, user agent, requested path) for operational and security purposes. We do not query those logs to build profiles of readers. Vercel’s own privacy terms apply to that data.
Search
Searches run against an index held on our server. The query is processed to return results and is not stored or associated with you.
Links out
Articles cite external sources. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else’s site under their policies, not ours.
Changes
If we add an email newsletter, advertising partners, or other data collection, this page changes before those services go live. Questions: hello@theknotjournal.com.