We collect nothing.
That sentence is the whole policy. The rest of this page is here because a privacy page should still say plainly what happens to your data, even when the answer is “it stays on your machine”.
What this site stores
One thing, and only if you press the theme button: your choice of paper or lamplight, kept in your browser's local storage under the key pikkola.hub.theme. It never leaves the browser, we cannot read it, and clearing your site data deletes it. Nothing else is written — no cookies, no identifiers, no session token.
What we do not use
- No analytics, no page-view counters, no heat maps, no session recording.
- No advertising or affiliate pixels, and no third-party scripts of any kind.
- No fonts, icons or images loaded from someone else's server. Everything is served from this domain, so no font CDN or image host learns that you were here.
- No accounts, so there is no profile about you to leak or sell.
What the network sees
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which necessarily processes the request itself — your IP address, the page you asked for, the time — in order to deliver the page and to keep the service online. Those request logs are Cloudflare's, we see only aggregate totals, and they are not something we can trace back to a person. Cloudflare's own privacy terms apply to that processing.
If you write to hello@pikkola.com, your message is delivered through Cloudflare Email Routing to a mailbox we read. We keep it for as long as it takes to answer, and we do not add you to any list. There is no newsletter to unsubscribe from.
Buying a field guide
The three field guides are sold on Gumroad. The purchase happens on Gumroad's site under Gumroad's privacy policy; they handle the payment and the email receipt, and we receive an order notification with the buyer's name and email so that we can answer support questions. We do not import buyers into any marketing system.
Children, and the short version
Nothing here is directed at children, and nothing here profiles anyone of any age. If you would like to know what we hold about you, the answer is nothing — but you are welcome to ask, and we will confirm it in writing.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the change will be described here rather than quietly made. Questions about any of it can go to hello@pikkola.com.