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Privacy policy
We collect your email address only if you sign up for our newsletter, and we use it only to send you that newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time.
If you use our contact form, we receive your name, email address and message, and use them only to reply to you. Messages are stored on our own servers (Amazon Web Services, US) and emailed to our team, and are deleted after 12 months. We don't add you to any mailing list. To prevent abuse we briefly count messages per connection; your IP address is never stored with your message.
When you click an affiliate link, the retailer may set cookies to credit us for the referral. Their privacy policies apply on their sites.
Counting visits, without cookies
We count page views and clicks on our "View price" buttons with our own small counter, not Google Analytics or an ad network. It sets no cookies and stores no IP address or device ID. All we keep is daily totals: how many times each page was viewed, which button was clicked, and the kind of site a visitor came from (for example "google" or "facebook"). To tell a first page view from the rest, your browser keeps a one-word note in session storage that disappears when you close the tab. Because nothing identifies you, we don't show a cookie banner.
We also use free Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit, which pages they read, which site sent them, and roughly where and on what kind of device (country, browser, phone or computer) and how fast pages load. It sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and Cloudflare says it does not use your IP address or browser details to follow you from visit to visit or across sites. We see only totals.
Other services on our pages
- Photos are loaded from Unsplash, which sees the request like any image host.
- Videos use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode and load only when you press play.
- "Listen to this article" uses a voice built into your device or browser. We don't receive anything when you use it.
Our YouTube channels and the YouTube API
Methuselah LLC, which publishes Age at Place, Kinimals and 4Gifts, posts short videos to its own YouTube channels (@AgeatPlace, @Kinimalsco and @4giftstore) with an internal publishing tool that uses the YouTube API Services. By watching or interacting with our videos you agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and YouTube's use of your information is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
- Whose data it touches. The tool signs in only to our own channels, with our own Google account. It is not offered to the public, and it never asks visitors or viewers to sign in, so it collects no data about you.
- What it uses. Permission to upload videos to our channels, and to read our own channels' names and IDs to confirm it is posting to the right one. It does not read comments, subscribers or anyone else's channels.
- Storage. The sign-in token for each of our channels is kept encrypted in AWS Secrets Manager (US). Our videos and their titles and descriptions are kept in our own AWS storage until we delete them; rendered videos are deleted after 180 days.
- Revoking and deleting. Access can be withdrawn at any time from the Google security settings page; we then delete the stored token within 7 days. To ask us to delete anything we hold about you, write to us through the contact form, and we will do it within 30 days.
We do not sell or share personal information. See also our terms of use.