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Privacy policy

Introduction

The short version: this site collects nothing about you. There is no signup, no account, no mailing list, no analytics and no advertising. What follows is the long version, in plain English. It is longer than the short version only because "nothing is collected" is a claim that deserves to be shown rather than asserted.

What this site is

AdvancedLinkTraining.com is a static website. Every page is a plain HTML file that was generated in advance and is served exactly as written. There is no application behind it, no database, no user accounts, no login and no server-side code that processes anything you do. Reading a page here is closer to opening a document than to using a service. Most of the guarantees below are not policies I promise to keep; they are consequences of the site having no machinery capable of doing otherwise.

No accounts, and nothing that identifies you

There is no registration, no login, no profile, no saved state, no comment system, no forum and no paywall. Nothing here asks who you are, and nothing here could store the answer if you told it. The course has no progress tracking for exactly this reason: a progress bar would require identifying you, keeping that identity somewhere, and asking you to sign in. I chose the missing feature over the collected data, and the course hub says so plainly.

No mailing list

There is no newsletter, no subscribe box, no "get the checklists by email" and no lead magnet of any kind. The checklists are static files at fixed URLs; you download them without telling me anything. If you write to me, your address is used to reply to you and for nothing else. It is not added to a list, because there is no list.

Analytics

This site runs no third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no heatmap, no session recording, no A/B testing script. Nothing on these pages reports your visit to anybody. If that ever changes, this page will say so and will name the tool.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. None. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. The single JavaScript file the site loads handles the mobile navigation menu and the contact form; it does not set cookies, does not write to local storage or session storage, and does not send any information anywhere.

Fonts and everything else are served from this domain

Fonts are self-hosted. That detail matters more than it sounds: a site that pulls its fonts from a font service hands that service your IP address and the page you were reading, on every page load, without you ever visiting them. Nothing here is loaded from a font service, a content delivery network, an ad network or a tag manager. There are no embedded videos, no social media widgets, no share buttons that phone home, no third-party comment platform and no chat bubble. Loading a page on this site involves your browser and this site's host, and nobody else.

The contact form

The form on the contact page does not submit to a server. When you press the button, your browser opens a new message in your own email program with the fields you filled in already placed in the body. Nothing is transmitted to this site, nothing is stored here, and if you close the draft without sending it, no one ever sees it. If you do send it, it arrives in an ordinary inbox and is read, answered, and kept only as long as it is useful. Correspondents are not added to any list, because there is no list.

What a web host inevitably logs

This is the one place where data does exist, so I would rather describe it accurately than claim a purity the internet does not allow.

Like every website, this one is served by a web host, and web servers keep ordinary access logs. A typical log line records the IP address the request came from, the user agent string your browser sends to identify itself, the URL requested, the date and time, the response status code, and the number of bytes sent. Sometimes it records the referring URL your browser passes along.

None of that is optional, and none of it is a choice I made. A server cannot deliver a page without knowing the address to send it to, and it cannot serve the right page without being told which one you asked for. Those logs are what any host uses to keep a site up, diagnose an error, and see whether the site is being attacked or scraped. On this site they are not combined with anything else, not analyzed for marketing, not used to build a profile of you, and not shared or sold. I do not keep a separate copy of them or run reports against them.

How long a host retains access logs is a function of the hosting arrangement rather than something I set as a policy here, and I am not going to invent a number for it. If that matters to you, the general answer for any website is the same: assume ordinary server logs exist for a period, and use a VPN or similar if you would rather your IP not appear in them.

Links to other sites

Pages here link to external resources, including Hartzer.com and the sites of tools and publishers the course discusses. Once you follow a link off this domain you are subject to that site's privacy practices, not this one's — they may run analytics, set cookies, serve advertising or ask you to sign in, and none of that is under my control. The absence of tracking here says nothing about what happens after you leave.

Questions about your data

Because nothing is collected, most data questions have a short answer: there is nothing held here to access, correct, export or delete. The one exception is correspondence — if you have emailed me and would like that message deleted, ask and I will delete it. Any question about this policy, or about anything you think it does not cover, reaches me through the contact page.

Changes to this policy

If anything described here changes — if some future feature genuinely required storing something, or if a tool were added that sees visitors — this page will be rewritten plainly to describe it, rather than quietly amended to permit it. I would rather lose the feature than need a consent banner.