Privacy & Affiliate Disclosure

Privacy

This site collects minimal personal information. Specifically:

  • Server logs: standard web server logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL, timestamp). Retained for 30 days for diagnostic purposes only.
  • Comment data: if you leave a comment on an article, your name, email address (not displayed publicly), and comment content are stored. Used only to display the comment and to contact you if you ask a question that warrants a private reply.
  • Analytics: aggregate page-view counts via privacy-respecting analytics. No personal identifiers, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting.
  • Cookies: WordPress sets a small number of session cookies for comment functionality. No tracking cookies, no third-party advertising cookies.

You can request deletion of any personal data we hold by emailing the address on the contact page. We will respond within 30 days.

Affiliate disclosure

This site participates in affiliate programs operated by some of the tools and services mentioned in articles. When you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Tools that currently have affiliate relationships with this site:

Tools mentioned in articles that do NOT have affiliate relationships with this site:

  • GSA Search Engine Ranker (purchased directly from gsa-online.de)
  • RankerX (no affiliate program at the time of writing)
  • Money Robot Submitter (no affiliate program at the time of writing)
  • OpenRouter (no affiliate program)

The recommendations in articles are based on what Tim personally pays for and uses on his own niche site portfolio. The affiliate relationships above exist, but they do not determine the editorial line. Several tools with high commission rates are explicitly NOT recommended in articles, and several recommended tools have no affiliate program at all.

How affiliate links are implemented on this site

Every affiliate link on the site is cloaked through a /go/ redirect — for example, /go/rayobyte redirects to the Rayobyte affiliate URL. The redirect carries an X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow header and a 302 status code, and every clickable link uses rel="nofollow sponsored". The /go/ path is also blocked in robots.txt. This is standard practice that keeps the affiliate footprint out of Google’s index without obscuring the destination from a human visitor — you can always hover any link to see where it goes.

Cookies in detail

Specific cookies set by this site:

  • wordpress_logged_in_* — only set if you log in to the WordPress admin (not applicable to public visitors)
  • comment_author_* — set when you leave a comment, remembers your name and email for future comments
  • No tracking, advertising, or social-media cookies are set by this site.

Third parties

This site does not embed third-party content (no embedded YouTube videos, no social media widgets, no advertising networks). Pages load only assets served from this domain.

Affiliate links route through this site’s own /go/ redirect first, then on to the affiliate program’s own tracking domains (e.g. the merchant’s own affiliate URL or networks such as impact.com or post-affiliate-pro). Those merchants have their own privacy policies which apply once you click through.

Contact

Privacy questions or data deletion requests: email through the contact page with the subject line “Privacy.”