Privacy policy

We run this site from Quebec, Canada. This policy applies Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, as amended by Law 25, to every reader, wherever you live.

Who is responsible

The site owner is responsible for protecting personal information. You can reach the owner at [email protected].

What we collect

• Nothing you have to give us. There is no account, no newsletter and no comment form, so we never ask for your name or email.
• Messages you send. Email to [email protected] goes through Cloudflare Email Routing, which forwards it to a mailbox hosted by Google (Gmail). Cloudflare says it does not store or read message content; its activity log shows us the sender, recipient, subject, date and spam checks of each message. Our replies come from that Gmail mailbox and show its address. Cloudflare and Google may process this information outside Quebec (Google privacy policy). We use your message only to answer you or to correct a guide.
• No tracking cookies. We use no advertising cookies, and our visit counter does not track you with cookies.
• Server logs. Cloudflare, our host, records technical data such as IP address and browser type to serve pages and stop attacks. Our Cloudflare dashboard can show a sample of these requests (IP address, browser, country, page) and totals, including visits from search-engine and AI robots. We use them to keep the site running and safe. See the Cloudflare privacy policy.
• Scripts from Cloudflare. Fonts and styles come from our own site; your browser does not contact Google when you read a page. It does contact Cloudflare: the visit counter loads a script from static.cloudflareinsights.com, a page that fails to load may send Cloudflare an automatic error report, and on pages showing our email address Cloudflare may add a small script that hides the address from spam robots.
• Your unit choice. If you switch between inches and millimetres, your browser keeps that choice on your device. We never receive it.

How we count visits

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to know how many people read the site and which guides help them.

• What it measures: pages viewed, the site that sent you (if any), your country (worked out from your IP address), your type of device, browser and operating system, how you reached the page, and page speed (Cloudflare analytics FAQ).
• What we see: totals only, such as the number of visits from Canada in a week. The reports do not identify you or follow you from page to page.
• Cloudflare’s own description: Web Analytics “does not collect or use your visitors’ personal data” (documentation); at launch, Cloudflare said it does not use cookies or local storage to track visitors and does not fingerprint them (announcement).
• European Union: the tool is set not to run for visitors in the European Union.
• Where the data goes: Cloudflare may process it outside Quebec; see its privacy policy.

If we learn that this tool stores anything on your device, we will update this policy.

Tools we might add later

Any tool that could identify you, locate you or build a profile of you (Google Analytics or advertising tags, for example) would stay off until you switch it on through a consent choice, as Law 25 requires. We will update this policy first.

Links to makers and sellers

Our product buttons lead to makers’ and sellers’ own pages. Once you click, you are on their site and their privacy policy applies; they may set their own cookies. Our links to Amazon.com carry our Amazon Associates tracking ID: if you buy, Amazon uses it, and its own cookies, to credit us with a commission. Amazon’s privacy notice applies there. Links to makers’ own sites earn us nothing today (see our affiliate disclosure).

Your rights

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, and withdraw a consent you gave. Write to [email protected]; we answer within 30 days. If we refuse to give you access or to correct your information, or do not answer within 30 days, you can ask the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec to examine the disagreement within 30 days of our refusal or of the end of those 30 days. You can also send the Commission a written complaint about our practices at any time.

How long we keep it

We keep your messages and our replies only as long as needed to answer, and never more than 12 months; deleted messages stay in the mailbox’s trash for up to 30 days. Cloudflare sets how long it keeps its email activity log. Cloudflare keeps detailed visit-counter data for 7 days and then only in aggregated form; we can view the last six months. The request samples in our dashboard cover up to the last 31 days.