Privacy Policy

HomeQuicks ("we," "us," or "our") runs the website at https://homequicks.com (the "Site"). Privacy policies tend to bury the point, so here it is up front, followed by the detail.

The short version

• No accounts, no sign-ups — the only information you ever give us directly is an email if you choose to write one.
• Standard server logs and aggregate analytics tell us which articles get read; nothing identifies you personally to us.
• Ads come from Insticator, an advertising network whose partners use cookies (details below).
• Nobody's personal information gets sold. Ever.

The detail

Email you send us

Writing to our contact address gives us your email address and the message itself, which we keep as long as needed to handle the conversation, plus a reasonable period for our records, and then delete. Skip anything sensitive — describing the leak under your sink never requires your date of birth.

Server logs

Our hosting provider automatically logs the technical basics of every request — IP address, browser and user agent, referring page, timestamp. The logs serve pages, keep the Site secure, and help diagnose faults; they're retained for a limited period and are never used to build advertising profiles.

Analytics

Readership is measured with Google Analytics 4, loaded via Cloudflare Zaraz so the third-party script runs server-side rather than piling into your browser. It may set cookies and record IP address, device and browser details, pages viewed, and general location. We only ever read the aggregate numbers — which fixes people actually needed — not individual visitors.

Advertising

Ads on HomeQuicks are delivered by Insticator, an advertising platform whose exchange includes Google and other partners. These partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, limit how often you see the same one, and prevent fraud; where the law requires it, ads are personalized only with your consent. Advertisers never learn who you are from us, and they have no say in what our articles recommend.

To opt out of personalized advertising, visit Google's Ads Settings and www.aboutads.info/choices; Google explains its practices at how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Cookies

Beyond the strictly necessary cookies (security, spam prevention), the analytics cookies, and the advertising cookies described above, the Site sets nothing. Block or delete them in your browser whenever you like; every article works fine without them.

Service providers

Three companies process data on our behalf: Cloudflare, which hosts the Site, provides network security, and loads the analytics script through Zaraz (Cloudflare's privacy policy); Google, which supplies the aggregate analytics (Google's privacy policy); and Insticator, which serves the ads described above (Insticator's privacy policy). Cloudflare and Google are limited to providing their services to us; Insticator and its advertising partners follow their own linked policies for the ads they serve.

What we use information for

• Replying to you.
• Operating, maintaining, and securing the Site.
• Detecting and stopping spam, abuse, fraud, and technical faults.
• Meeting legal obligations where they apply.

Rights you may have

Depending on where you live — under the GDPR, the CCPA/CPRA, and similar laws — you may be able to access, correct, delete, or restrict our use of personal information about you, and to object to certain processing. Send the request to the email address below; we'll answer as the applicable law requires.

Children under 13

The Site isn't aimed at children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect their information. If a child has sent us personal information, let us know and we'll delete it.

Processing outside your country

We operate from the United States, and our providers may process data there and elsewhere. Those countries' data-protection laws can differ from your own, and using the Site means accepting that your information may be processed in them.

Changes

This page is the record: any revision updates the "Last updated" date at the top, and material changes appear here before they take effect. Worth a glance if you haven't read it in a while.

Questions

Write to contact@homequicks.com — the contact page has the details.