Privacy Policy

Two people, one half-acre in rural North Carolina, one website. No privacy team. No legal department. Just a standard hosting setup and one analytics tool. Here's what actually happens when you visit.

What I collect

When you load a page here, the hosting provider logs a standard server entry: IP address, browser type, the page you requested, a timestamp, the referring URL. That's standard web hosting — I can't disable it, and it's not something I'm doing intentionally. No signup forms, no user accounts, no email list. Nothing stored on my end beyond what the host logs automatically, and a log entry doesn't identify you.

Cookies

One analytics cookie. Counts page visits without identifying you. No advertising cookies, no retargeting, no cross-site tracking. Block them if you want — nothing on the site breaks.

Analytics

One analytics service. What it tells me: anonymized page views, browser type, country (not city, not your address). No personal profiles, nothing shared with advertisers. I check it once a week to see whether the shed-building posts are getting found or just sitting there for people I referred directly.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links here are affiliate links — meaning I get paid a small commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. I don't track or store which links you click; that's between you and the retailer. The commission doesn't change what I write. Plans that wasted a weekend are documented as plans that wasted a weekend. For how the editorial side handles affiliate relationships, see the author page.

Data retention

Server logs: cleared after 30 days. Analytics session data: purged within 30 days. After that, only aggregate page-view counts remain — post X had Y visits in June — and those don't connect to any individual visitor.

Your rights

EU, EEA, UK, and California residents have rights under GDPR Articles 15–22 and applicable local law: access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), portability (Art. 20), objection (Art. 21). Since this site has no accounts and analytics is anonymized, there's usually nothing personal on my end to access or erase. Email me and I'll confirm what exists.

Contact

Email: chris@backyard-builder.com. I check this myself. Reply usually comes evenings or weekends — when we're not out in the yard dealing with the next thing that needs building.