CookieGrove keeps this short and specific: here is the data that passes through the site, the reason it does, and the control you have over it.
Scope
What follows applies to this site alone. Sites we link to run their own policies, and any social platform we post on collects under its own terms, not ours.
The data that passes through
Your browser sends technical information to our server on every request: IP address, browser and device type, the pages you open, the referring address, and how long you stay. This is ordinary web-server behaviour and we do not tie it to a name.
The only information you hand over directly is the content of any message you send through the form, including an email address so we can reply.
How the data is used
- Operate and maintain the site.
- We do not measure the audience. With no analytics in place, there is nothing collected here to tell us which baking content is useful.
- Reply to you.
- Comply with the law where it applies to us.
The companies involved
We rely on one third party, under its own policy: the company that hosts the site and keeps the server logs and database. There is no analytics, no advertising and no newsletter service. None of this sets a cookie; some pages call Gravatar for an author avatar, the only other outside domain. This page will be updated before any advertising, analytics or mail service is added.
No data is passed to an outside analytics, advertising or mail service, so none crosses to the United States that way. If such a provider is ever added, this page will say where the data goes before it moves.
Subscribing
Lawful basis
European and United Kingdom law asks for a lawful basis, so here they are: consent for anything you opt into, legitimate interest for the operation and aggregate measurement of the site, and legal obligation where applicable. Consent is reversible on request.
How long anything lasts
Server logs are rotated by our hosting provider on its own schedule. The addresses collected until now were deleted from the site on 12 October 2026. A message sent through the contact form is kept as long as the exchange is useful and then deleted.
We pass your IP address to an outside service (country.is) when you do something that sends data in — send the contact form or run a search — so we can tell which country the request comes from. It returns only the country; we keep that country code for a day, under a fingerprint of the address rather than the address itself. From outside the countries the site serves, those actions are declined: the form says so, and a search just returns you to the homepage. This check never happens when you simply read a page or an article.
What you can ask for
Three requests are always available to you: show me what you hold, fix it, delete it. The site sets no cookies. EEA, UK and California readers have statutory rights on top of this, and we extend them to all.
No profiling
You are not profiled and no automated decision is taken about you. What the measurement produces is totals, not a view of any one reader.
What we do not do
There is no sale of personal information and no sharing for another party’s marketing. That answers the California opt-out question directly, rather than by pointing you at a form.
Children
This site is not aimed at anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly take data from that age group. Contact us if you think we have and it goes.
Keeping it safe
The site runs over HTTPS and access to anything we store is restricted. That is protection, not invulnerability, and we will not dress it up as more than it is.
Escalating
Complaints are best raised with us first, through the contact page, because that is quickest. You keep the right to go straight to your data protection authority instead.
Changes to this page
Any revision is dated at the top of the page, and anything substantial is flagged on the site itself.
Getting in touch
Questions about any of this go through our contact page.