Policy
Privacy policy
What the site collects and what it does not.
Status: this is a plain-language description of how the site is built to work. It has not had legal review and should not be treated as legal advice or a guarantee of compliance with any law. It must be reviewed, and updated to the services actually switched on, before advertising is enabled or the site is promoted to a wider audience.
What the site is
TartanFoundry is a static site. Pages are prepared in advance and served as files. There are no user accounts, no comments, no forms that store your input on our side and no database of visitors.
What we collect by default
By default we do not run analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, and we do not set cookies of our own. Whatever host serves the site will see ordinary request data, such as your IP address, the page requested and your browser type, in its server logs. Which host that is and how long logs are kept is set by that provider and should be stated here once the host is fixed.
The search box and the Tartan Finder run in your browser against data shipped with the page. What you type is not sent to us.
Analytics
The site has optional support for Google Analytics, disabled unless an analytics ID is configured. If it is switched on, the page will load Google's script, which can set cookies or similar identifiers and send visit data to Google. The code anonymises IP addresses. At the time of writing, the site does not include a consent banner, so analytics should stay off until a consent mechanism is added where one is required.
Advertising
Advertising is off. No ad scripts load and no ad space is shown. Should advertising be enabled, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads, and a Google-certified consent management platform will be added first where the law requires consent. This policy will then list the vendors and explain how to opt out.
If you write to [email protected], we receive your address and message and use them only to reply and to handle the correction. We do not add you to a mailing list.
Links to other sites
Pages link to registries, museums and other sites. They have their own privacy practices, which we do not control.
Your rights and questions
Rights over personal data vary by country. Because the site collects little by default, there is usually little to access or delete, but you can ask at the contact address. Changes to this policy will be shown on this page.