Privacy Policy

Most privacy policies are written by lawyers to protect the company, not to inform the reader. This one is an attempt to actually tell you what happens with your data when you visit this site.

What gets collected and why

When you visit Questionable Authority, the web server logs basic technical information — your IP address, the page you requested, your browser type, and the time of the request. Every web server does this by default. It's how the internet works. These logs are used to diagnose technical problems and understand which content people are actually reading. They are not sold, shared with advertisers, or used to build a profile of you as an individual.

If you sign up for email updates, your email address is stored for the sole purpose of sending you those updates. You can unsubscribe at any time, and your address won't be used for anything else or handed to a third party.

Comments, if enabled on a post, are submitted voluntarily. Don't put anything in a comment field that you wouldn't want to be public, because comments are public.

That's more or less it. This site doesn't run behavioral advertising. It doesn't use tracking pixels to follow you around the web after you leave. It doesn't have a loyalty program that requires you to create an account and hand over your date of birth.

Third party services

The site uses some third party tools to function — hosting infrastructure, possibly an analytics service to understand traffic in aggregate. Where analytics are used, the preference is for privacy-respecting tools that don't fingerprint individual users or share data with advertising networks. If that changes, this page will say so.

If you're reading this through an RSS reader or aggregator, their privacy practices are their own business and outside my control.

Embedded content from other sites — a video, a document viewer — may load resources from those third party domains, and those domains have their own privacy policies. We try to keep embeds minimal for exactly this reason.

Cookies

The site may set a cookie to remember a preference, like whether you've dismissed a notification. It won't set a cookie to track you across other websites. If you block all cookies, the site should still work fine.
Please see our Cookies Policy for details.

4. Data Sharing

We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties except as required by law or necessary to operate our services (e.g., our hosting provider).

Your rights

If you're in the EU, the UK, California, or a growing number of other places, you have legal rights around your personal data — the right to see what's held, correct it, or ask for it to be deleted. If you want to exercise any of those rights in relation to data this site holds, send an email using the contact details below. Requests will be handled within a reasonable timeframe.

What this policy doesn't cover

It doesn't cover what happens if you click a link and go somewhere else. Once you leave this site, you're operating under someone else's rules. Check their policies.

Changes

If something significant changes about how this site handles data, this page will be updated and the date below will reflect that. There won't be a pop-up asking you to re-accept terms that are written to be unreadable. The changes will just be here, in plain language, for anyone who wants to read them.

7. Contact

Questions about this policy? Get in touch.