Privacy

Bench Coat Field Guide collects no personal information from readers. That is a description of how the site is built rather than a policy commitment, and the sections below explain what it means in practice.

No Forms or Accounts

Nothing on the site accepts input. There is no mechanism through which a reader could submit personal information even deliberately.

External Links

Following a link takes a reader somewhere this site does not run. Once a reader follows one of those links they are on a site with its own practices, and nothing described here applies to it.

How Pages Are Delivered

The site is delivered through a hosting provider whose infrastructure sees each request. Like any web host it processes the technical request data needed to deliver a page, including the requesting address, and retains it briefly for security and operational purposes. That processing sits with the host and is common to essentially all web hosting.

Browser Storage

Browser storage is not used at all, cookies included. A reader arrives, reads a document, and leaves nothing behind.

Nothing Is Measured

The pages carry no analytics, no tag manager and no advertising pixel. There is no measurement layer, so there is no record of an individual reader to protect in the first place.

Keeping This Accurate

The account given here tracks the actual construction of the site. A privacy page that has drifted from the site it describes is worse than none, so this one is kept in step.