Privacy policy

Short version

There are no accounts, no comment forms, no newsletters and no uploads on this site. We do not ask for your name, your email or your address, and we have nothing to sell you.

What is collected is ordinary web-server and advertising data, described below.

Server logs

Our web server records the IP address, the requested URL, the referring page, the user-agent string and the response size for every request. These logs exist to keep the site up and to spot abuse, and they are kept for a limited period before rotation.

Advertising and Google AdSense

This site is supported by advertising served through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, or opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

DoubleClick DART cookie

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ads Settings page linked above.

GDPR — if you are in the EEA or the UK

Where the General Data Protection Regulation applies, we rely on legitimate interest for the security and availability of the site (server logs) and on consent for advertising cookies and any measurement cookies. Consent is collected through the messaging platform Google provides for its advertising products, and you can change or withdraw it at any time from the link on any page that shows an ad.

• You have the right to be told what is processed and why — that is this page.
• You have the right of access to the personal data held about you, and the right to rectification.
• You have the right to erasure and to restriction of processing.
• You have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to data portability.
• You have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.
• Personal data may be transferred outside the EEA, including to the United States, under the safeguards Google applies to its advertising and measurement products.

CCPA — if you are a California resident

We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from consumers under 16. The categories of information that may be disclosed to advertising and measurement providers are identifiers (IP address, cookie identifiers), internet or other network activity (pages viewed, referring URL) and inferences drawn from that activity for advertising purposes.

• You have the right to know what categories of personal information are collected and for what purpose.
• You have the right to request deletion of personal information we hold.
• You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information — use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" control offered by the consent platform on any page that shows an ad.
• You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
• Requests can be made to [email protected]; we will confirm within the period the statute allows.

Cookies you may receive

Strictly necessary cookies (if any) exist only to deliver the page. Everything else is advertising or measurement, and is set by a third party, not by us. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings; the site will keep working because it has no login and no stored preferences.

Children

This site is written for adults making soap with sodium hydroxide. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date at the top of the page changes with it. Questions and requests go to [email protected].