We honor Do Not Track. There is also nothing here to track.
What Do Not Track is
Do Not Track (DNT) is a setting in your browser that sends a header with every request saying you do not want to be tracked across websites. Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a newer signal that does much the same thing and, unlike DNT, carries legal weight in some jurisdictions as a valid opt-out of data sale and sharing.
The awkward truth about DNT is that it was never binding. Most websites received the signal and ignored it, which is why browsers such as Chrome and Firefox have de-emphasized or removed the setting. We think that was a poor outcome, so we are stating our position clearly.
Our position
We honor both DNT and GPC. If your browser sends either signal, we respect it.
Being straightforward about it: honoring these signals costs us nothing, because we do not operate any of the things they are designed to stop.
What this site actually does
| Thing | Do we use it? |
|---|---|
| Cookies of any kind | No |
| Analytics (Google Analytics, Plausible, etc.) | No |
| Advertising or conversion pixels | No |
| Cross-site tracking | No |
| Heatmaps or session recording | No |
| Social media embeds or share trackers | No |
| Fingerprinting | No |
| Third-party requests of any kind | No |
| Data brokers or enrichment services | No |
| Selling or sharing personal information | No |
| Local storage | One entry, only if you change language |
| Session storage | No |
There is no cookie consent banner on this site. That is not an oversight. There is nothing to consent to.
The exceptions, stated plainly
Server logs
Our host, Netlify, keeps standard access logs including IP addresses, as every web server does. This is infrastructure and abuse protection, not analytics. We do not query those logs to build a picture of individual visitors. This is the only exception, and it is unavoidable for any website that exists.
Your language choice
If you use the globe button to switch language, we save the language code
(for example es) in your browser's local storage under the key
cs-lang, so the site stays in your language next time. That is the
only thing this site stores on your device.
It contains no identifier, is never sent to us or to anyone else, and is not used to recognise you. Clearing your browser data removes it, and switching back to English deletes it outright. The translation files themselves are plain JSON served from this same domain: no translation service is involved and nothing about your visit is shared with a third party in order to translate the page.
Fonts
Typefaces are served from this domain, not from Google Fonts or any other CDN. That means a visit to this site makes no request to any server other than ours. Not one. You can confirm it in the Network tab.
If you contact us
The contact form is the one place this site collects anything, and it only collects what you deliberately type into it. That is a submission, not tracking, and DNT does not apply to it. What happens to that information is covered in our privacy and confidentiality statement.
What we build for clients
Worth saying, since we build websites for a living. Most business sites do need analytics, and we set them up as part of a build. When we do, we configure them to respect privacy signals, anonymize IP addresses where the tool supports it, and avoid loading anything before consent where consent is legally required.
If you would prefer a site with no tracking at all, like this one, we will build that and it will load faster for it. Just say so.
Verify it yourself
Do not take our word for any of this. Open your browser's developer tools, go to the Network and Application tabs, and reload this page. Every single request will be to cindershift.com. The cookie store will be empty.
That is the kind of claim worth making, because you can check it in about fifteen seconds.