Privacy

The basics

Substitute Ratio (substituteratio.com) is made of plain pages that are the same for every reader. Looking up a swap or a fridge time leaves nothing behind: the site does not set cookies, and your browser's local storage and session storage stay untouched by it. There is no analytics code here, and no ads, tracking pixels, or scripts loaded from other companies; even the fonts come from this domain. You will not find sign-ups, comment boxes, or forms, so there is nowhere to type personal details in the first place.

Data handled when you visit or write

Request logs. Cloudflare hosts the pages and delivers them. To do that and to fend off abuse, it handles the technical record of every visit, for example the IP address a request came from, when it arrived, the URL it was for, and the browser that sent it. We rely on legitimate interest here: a website has to be kept secure to stay online. These records are never combined with analytics on our side, and we don’t build visitor profiles from them. Cloudflare holds them according to its own privacy policy, and that processing can happen in another country.

Messages to us. When you email, your address and what you wrote are used for one thing only: replying to you. Legitimate interest covers this too, since a question deserves an answer. Your note is relayed by Cloudflare Email Routing to the Gmail account we answer from, kept out of any mailing list, and deleted if you ask us to remove it. We don’t sell anyone’s personal data, don’t hand it to third parties, and don’t feed it into automated decisions.

Pages we point to

Our links to university Extension and USDA pages are plain links with nothing added for tracking. Once you arrive on one of those sites, its privacy policy applies instead of this one.

Requests and complaints

Readers in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, or anywhere with similar laws, are entitled to see what personal data of theirs we hold, have it corrected or removed, and object to how it is used. Send the request to hello@substituteratio.com. You are also free to take a complaint to your own country’s privacy regulator.

Should this policy change (adding analytics, say), the updated page will list what gets collected and the reason before any of it is switched on.