Honest Privacy Policies
VOL. I  ·  EST. 2026  ·  "WE READ THE FINE PRINT SO YOU DON'T LIE ABOUT READING IT"
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Verdict
EXHIBIT A

Honest Privacy Policies.

we practice what we preach. cookieless, GPC-honored, nothing personal.

We collect almost nothing. No accounts, no ads, no data broker deals, no cookies. We use Plausible Analytics — a cookieless, EU-hosted tool that sees only aggregate page counts, no personal data §1. Your IP is used to derive a country then immediately discarded. No cross-site tracking. No fingerprinting. If you block Plausible, the site works identically — and if your browser sends a GPC signal, we skip loading Plausible entirely §3. We've done the thing we ask everyone else to do.

Media / Privacy Advocacy
Analyzed: 2026-05-24
§2 · The short version

TL;DR — 8 answers.

The eight things you actually want to know, at a glance.

TL;DR — 8 answers A+
NO Do they sell your data?
NO Are they tracking you on other sites?
NO Can your data train their AI?
~ Who can see what you do?
YES Can you delete everything?
YES Do they honor your opt-out?
YES Special handling for minors?
NO Been fined for this before?
§3 · The details

The questions, answered.

No legalese. Every answer the way your most cynical friend would put it.

NO
§2

Do they sell your data?

No. We have no monetization model. No ads, no affiliate links, no data broker relationships. The site runs on principle and hosting fees.

NO
§1

Are they tracking you on other sites?

No. Plausible sets no cookies and uses no persistent identifiers. There's nothing to correlate across sites. We're not tracking you anywhere.

NO
§2

Can your data train their AI?

No. Plausible collects no personal data, so there's nothing to train on. We certainly aren't using your reading habits to train anything.

COND.
§1

Who can see what you do?

Us (aggregate dashboards only) and Plausible (as data processor). Plausible's privacy policy is public and they don't sell or share data. That's it.

YES
§3

Can you delete everything?

There's nothing personal stored to delete. Plausible holds only aggregate counts — page views, not people. No account, no profile, nothing tied to you.

YES
§3

Do they honor your opt-out?

Yes, fully. If your browser sends a GPC signal (Global Privacy Control — used by Brave, Firefox with privacy extensions, and others), we skip loading Plausible entirely. Block us with any content blocker too — same result. The site works identically either way. We don't detect blockers, we don't nag you.

YES
§2

Special handling for minors?

There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy. Plausible collects no more from a minor than from an adult. We don't target children.

NO
§2

Been fined for this before?

No. We just launched. Ask again in a few years.

§3 · The privacy card

At a glance, honestly.

Eight signals, color-coded. Like a model card for a machine — except the machine is reading your data.

Privacy Card · Honest Privacy Policies · Analyzed 2026-05-24
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Data sold / shared NO GOOD
Cross-site tracking NO GOOD
AI training NO
Deletion right N/A BAD
GPC honored YES GOOD
Keeps forever? NO GOOD
Child protections YES GOOD
Automated decisions NO
Collects
Usage Data, Device Info, Location
Shares with
§5 · The label they should have shown you

The Privacy Label, honestly.

An Apple-style label for what's collected and a Cranor-style back-of-pack for what they do with it. Every cell links to the exact line in their policy.

HONEST PRIVACY POLICIES — DATA COLLECTED
PER APPLE PRIVACY-LABEL TAXONOMY ↗
● USED TO TRACK YOU
Data shared with third parties for cross-property tracking.
◐ LINKED TO YOU
Tied to your identity and stored against your account.
○ NOT LINKED TO YOU
Aggregated, supposedly anonymous.
Usage Data §1
Pages visited · Referrer URL · Time on site · UTM parameters
Device Info §1
Browser type · OS · Screen size · Device type
Location §1
Country · Region (derived from IP — IP not stored)
↓ BACK OF LABEL · WHAT THEY DO WITH IT (CRANOR FRAMEWORK)
Purposes
Understand which pages are read (aggregate only), Measure traffic sources to know where readers come from. §1
2+ stated purposes. The interesting ones are buried in §7.
Sold or shared?
No. §1
"We don't sell data" is technically true and substantively false.
Retention
Bounded. §2
Plausible retains aggregate stats indefinitely, but no personal data is ever stored. Your IP is discarded immediately after location lookup.
User controls
Deletion: N/A · Opt-out: N/A §3
Delete works. Opting out of inference does not exist.
Honors GPC?
Yes. §3
Global Privacy Control browser signal: honored.
Automated decisions
No. §3
. All algorithmic.
AI training on your data
No. §2
Your public posts/photos train commercial models.
Children's data
Under 13 blocked · 13–17 limited §8
Ad targeting paused for teens, but content profile still kept.
Breach disclosure
"As required by law." §15.3
Translation: the bare minimum legal window in your jurisdiction.
§5 · The receipts

The receipts, translated.

Five of the worst clauses, lifted verbatim. Strikethroughs are theirs. Marginalia is ours.

HONEST PRIVACY POLICIES · What We Collect §1
We use Plausible Analytics, a cookieless analytics tool hosted in the EU. Plausible collects aggregate data only — pages visited, referrer, browser type, country. No personal data is collected or stored. no cookies, no fingerprinting, no creepiness Your IP address is used to determine your country and then immediately discarded.
ACTUALLY COOKIELESS
HONEST PRIVACY POLICIES · What We Don't Do §2
We do not serve ads. We do not sell data. We do not set cookies. We do not use tracking pixels. We do not have a login system. We do not store personal information on our own servers or anyone else's. we actually mean this
MEANS EVERY WORD
HONEST PRIVACY POLICIES · Your Options §3
You can block Plausible Analytics using any content blocker. The site will work identically with or without it. We don't detect blockers, we don't nag you, and we don't degrade your experience. this is how it should work everywhere
BLOCKERS WELCOME
§6 · The deceptive design

Dark patterns spotted.

Tricks the policy and surrounding UX use to make you "consent" without really consenting.

§7 · What you can actually do

Your rights, by where you live.

Same company, wildly different rights depending on your jurisdiction. Direct links to the specific opt-out / delete / access flows.

EU (GDPR)
DIFFICULTY: EASY
  • ✓ Right to access (nothing personal is stored — this page is it)
  • ✓ Right to erasure (nothing to erase — no personal data collected)
  • ✓ Right to object (just block Plausible — works perfectly)
REQUEST →

Source: §3

California (CCPA)
DIFFICULTY: EASY
  • ✓ Right to know what's collected (this page is it)
  • ✓ Right to delete (nothing personal stored)
  • ✓ No sale to opt out of
REQUEST →

Source: §3

Default (rest of world)
DIFFICULTY: EASY
  • ✓ Email us and we'll respond like a human
  • ✓ Block Plausible — works perfectly, we don't detect it
  • ✓ No personal data stored anywhere
REQUEST →

Source: §3

§8 · Receipts

The actual sources.

Every claim above is anchored to a line in the policy we analyzed. Click any section ID to view it in context.

ANALYZED BY: self  ·  PROMPT VERSION: honest-policy-v1.4-self  ·  ANALYZED AT: 2026-05-24T00:00:00Z
SOURCE: https://honestprivacypolicies.org/privacy/  ·  POLICY VERSION: 2026-05-24  ·  SNAPSHOT HASH: self-authored
  • §1
    What We Collect — Plausible Analytics
    "We use Plausible Analytics, a cookieless analytics tool hosted in the EU."
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  • §2
    What We Don't Do
    "We do not serve ads. We do not sell data. We do not set cookies."
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  • §3
    Your Options
    "You can block Plausible Analytics using any content blocker. The site will work identically with or without it."
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