PETE'S PEN PICKS
Privacy ❌ updated Nov 9, 2026

PRIVACY POLICY

Short version: no accounts, no forms, no cookies, and no IP addresses stored. We count visits and link clicks with our own cookieless analytics. The services that host the site and the stores we link to have their own policies, described below.

WHAT WE COLLECT

Pete's Pen Picks has no sign-up, no comments, no newsletter, and no contact form, so we never ask for your name, email, or other personal details. The only data we keep is the anonymous analytics described below.

HOSTING AND DELIVERY

The site is hosted on Railway and delivered through Cloudflare, which provides DNS, caching, and security. Like any web server, they receive standard request details (your IP address, browser user agent, the page requested, and the time) to deliver pages and protect against abuse, and they may keep short-lived server logs under their own policies. Cloudflare may set a strictly necessary security cookie to filter out bots.

ANALYTICS

We run our own first-party analytics to see which pages and products people find useful. No third-party analytics or advertising scripts are involved. For each page view and each click on an outbound link (for example a “Buy on Amazon” button), we record:

  • the page, the time, and which link was clicked;
  • the referring website (domain and path only), and campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign) if the link you followed had them;
  • approximate location (country, region, and city) and time zone, as provided by Cloudflare from your IP address;
  • device type, browser, and operating system, derived from your browser's user agent.

We don't store IP addresses and don't use cookies or similar storage for analytics. To count unique visitors, we combine your IP address and user agent with a random value that changes every day and keep only a one-way hash of the result. The daily value is deleted after the day ends, so visits on different days can't be linked and the hash can't be traced back to you. Analytics records are deleted automatically after 13 months, and we never sell or share them.

COOKIES

Pete's Pen Picks doesn't set any cookies for visitors. (The password-protected admin area uses a strictly necessary sign-in cookie for the site owners only.) Third parties, including Amazon and other advertisers, may serve content and advertisements, collect information directly from visitors, and place or recognize cookies on visitors' browsers, as described in the sections below.

EMBEDDED VIDEO

The video at the top of the page is embedded from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). YouTube may store information on your device and collect usage data once you play it, under Google's privacy policy. Timestamp links open YouTube directly.

PRODUCT IMAGES AND FONTS

Product photos load from Amazon's and the maker's image servers, which receive your IP address and browser details when your browser requests them. Fonts are served from this site, so no requests go to Google Fonts.

AMAZON ASSOCIATES AND AFFILIATE LINKS

As an Amazon Associate, Pete's Pen Picks earns from qualifying purchases. When you click a product link, you leave this site and Amazon (or the maker's store) may set cookies to attribute any purchase to us and to run its own services. We never see who you are or what you buy; Amazon reports only aggregate sales and commissions. Amazon's handling of your data is covered by the Amazon.com Privacy Notice. More on how we earn money is in our affiliate disclosure.

CHILDREN

The site is meant for a general audience and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13.

CHANGES AND CONTACT

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Pete's Pen Picks is built and run by the team at FalcoDash; reach us through their site with any questions.