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Privacy policy

Shopfloor collects no accounts, sets no cookies, and runs no analytics. Details of what the server necessarily sees.

Short version: there is nothing to opt out of. Shopfloor has no user accounts, no comments, no newsletters, no analytics scripts, no advertising, and no cookies. Reading the site requires no personal data and creates no profile.

What the server necessarily processes

Like every web server, the hosting server processes standard connection data to deliver pages: the requested URL, date and time, a truncated network identifier, and the browser-supplied user agent. This lives in routine server logs used for operations and security, and is not sold, shared, or used for profiling.

What the site itself stores

Nothing about visitors. The site's server-side components keep only operational state: feed caches (copies of public headlines from automation publications) and a log of indexer-notification timestamps used to avoid duplicate submissions. Neither contains visitor data.

External links

Articles and index entries link to external sites. Following those links subjects you to their policies, not this one.

Contact

Questions about this policy: Yunus Emre Vurgun, the site's maintainer.

Changes

If this policy ever needs to change — for example, if the site adds a feature that processes data — the change will be published here with a new date.