Privacy Policy

This site is one person — me, Derek — writing about DIY energy projects from a home office in Phoenix. What follows is what actually happens when you load a page on offgridtinker.com. If anything is unclear, the email on the contact page is the one I check every day.

Server logs

When you load a page here, the hosting provider records the request: IP address, browser, the page you loaded, a timestamp, and the referring URL. That's the same baseline log file almost every website creates. I don't run signup forms, comment sections, or user accounts — no email, name, or password is stored anywhere on my end.

Cookies

One cookie type: a visitor/session identifier used by the analytics tool described below. No advertising cookies, no remarketing, no cross-site tracking. Block cookies in your browser if you want — nothing on the site breaks.

Analytics

I use a privacy-respecting analytics service to see which pages are being read and where visitors are coming from — no personal data collected, no advertising profiles built. I check the dashboard maybe once a week to see which build logs are landing and which ones I might as well have written for myself. The service doesn't pass anything to advertisers and I don't use it to profile individual visitors.

Affiliate Links

Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links — meaning I earn a small commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. I don't collect or store any data about which links you click. For more on how the editorial side handles affiliate relationships, see my Editorial Policy.

Data retention

Server logs: 30 days, then deleted. Analytics session data: purged within 30 days. Only aggregate page-view counts are kept past that window, and those contain nothing tied to a specific visitor.

Your rights

If you're in the EU, UK, or California, you have specific rights over any personal data that might relate to your visit — including the right to access, correct, or request deletion of that data. In practice, since I don't run accounts and the analytics is already anonymized, there's usually nothing personal on my side to retrieve. Send an email with "privacy" in the subject line and I'll reply within a couple of days.

Contact about privacy

Email derek@offgridtinker.com. There's no privacy team — just me, on a laptop, in a garage workshop that used to fit a car.