Privacy

This notice describes what teqpost.com collects and why. It reflects how the site is configured today; it will be updated if that changes.

What the site collects

Server logs. Like any website, teqpost.com is served by a web host that records requests. These logs typically include your IP address, the page requested, the time, your browser’s user-agent string and the referring page. They are used to operate and secure the site and are retained by the hosting provider under its own policy.

Comments. The site has a comment form on articles. If you post a comment, it stores the name and email address you type, the comment text, your IP address and your browser’s user-agent string. Your email address is never published and is not added to any mailing list; it identifies you as the author of your own comments and, if you ask for them, delivers reply notifications. The comment form asks only for a name and an email address; there is no website field. Every comment is held for manual approval before it appears. The comment system runs on this domain and stores comments in this site’s own database, so no third-party comment service receives anything.

Spam filtering. Comments are checked by an automated spam filter before they reach the moderation queue. It runs entirely on this server: it compares the comment text, your IP address and your browser string against local rules and a local record of addresses previously marked as spam. No comment and no part of it is sent to an outside service for scoring. A comment the filter flags is moved to a spam folder rather than deleted, so a wrongly flagged comment can still be found and restored, and the reason it was flagged is recorded alongside it.

Comment notifications. You can ask to be emailed when a reply arrives or when new comments are posted. This is optional and off unless you tick the box. We send one confirmation email first and add you only if you confirm, and every notification carries an unsubscribe link that works without an account.

Cookies. The site sets no advertising cookies.

• _ga and _ga_BHM8ZFLMPS — Google Analytics measurement, described below.
• comment_author_… and comment_author_email_… — set only when you post a comment, so you do not have to retype your details next time. They expire after 30 days.
• darkmode — remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme.
• WordPress session cookies — set only for people who log in to the administration area.
• A caching cookie may be set to serve you the correct version of a page.

Nothing here is used to build an advertising profile of you.

Analytics. The site uses Google Analytics 4, property G-BHM8ZFLMPS, connected through the Site Kit by Google plugin. It records which pages are viewed, roughly where in the world the request came from, the referring site and the type of device and browser. Google receives your IP address as part of that request and uses it to derive an approximate location; Google states that it does not store the address itself in Analytics. The data is used to see which articles are read, and nothing more.

Google acts as a data processor for this and holds the data under its own privacy policy. You can opt out of Analytics in every site you visit with Google’s browser add-on, or by using any browser or extension that blocks it. Signed-in administrators of this site are excluded from measurement.

Web fonts. The typefaces used here are Inter, Space Grotesk and JetBrains Mono, and they are now served from this domain. Your browser makes no request to fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so Google receives nothing when a page loads a font. Earlier versions of this page were wrong about this in both directions: one claimed fonts were already local when they were not, and a later one listed Roboto, which is no longer used at all.

What the site does not do

• No advertising networks, and no cross-site or behavioural advertising tracking.
• No third-party comment service. Comments are not handled by Disqus or anything like it.
• No third-party spam service. Spam filtering runs on this server; your comment is not sent anywhere else to be scored.
• No avatar service. Gravatar is switched off, so no third party is sent a hash of your email address when a comment is displayed.
• No social login. You do not need an account anywhere to comment.
• No file uploads in comments, and no images loaded from other servers into a comment thread.
• No sale or sharing of personal information.

Embedded content

Articles may embed content from other sites, such as video. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that site directly, and the third party may collect data and set its own cookies. We link out rather than embed wherever it is practical to do so.

Email you send us

If you email us, we keep that correspondence in order to reply and to maintain a record of corrections. We do not add correspondents to any mailing list.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to personal data held about you, request its correction or deletion, or object to its processing. The personal data this site holds is limited to what you type into a comment form together with the IP address and browser string recorded alongside it, the hosting logs, and any email you choose to send. To request a copy of your comments, their deletion, or removal from comment notifications, contact us.

Changes

Material changes to this notice will be reflected here, with the date of change stated. Last updated 19 August 2026, when comments were opened on articles, the optional website field was removed from the comment form, and a spam filter that runs on this server was added. The same update corrected the earlier claim that no fonts were loaded from third-party servers: the site has always loaded its typefaces from Google Fonts.

Note for the site owner: this notice describes the site’s current configuration accurately, but it is not legal advice. Two things are still open and are your call. Google Analytics and Google Fonts both run with no consent mechanism, on a site that covers EU regulation. Review this page again before adding advertising, affiliate tracking or a newsletter. Comments collect names, email addresses and IP addresses; every comment is still held for approval, and the spam filter now pre-sorts the obvious cases without contacting any outside service. It flags rather than deletes, so check the spam folder from time to time instead of trusting it blindly.