Privacy and measurement

Who runs this site

Check Engine Solutions publishes this site. For questions about your visit or this notice, email hello@checkenginesolutions.com.

What the site measures

We use Matomo through an endpoint on this domain to measure visits and clicks on links to other websites. It runs without analytics cookies and respects your browser’s Do Not Track setting. The page addresses our tracker sends omit query strings and fragments. Matomo can receive the page title, referring page and browser information as well as outbound-link activity.

The endpoint forwards your IP address to Matomo. Matomo derives country and city information from the original IP address, then masks its last two bytes before storing it. For example, an address beginning with 84.12 is stored as 84.12.xxx.xxx. The original address is therefore processed for location information, even though the stored analytics record uses the masked address.

How long analytics records stay

Matomo automatically deletes raw visit records after 395 days, about 13 months. Aggregated reports remain after those individual records are deleted.

Hosting access logs are separate from Matomo analytics. The IP masking and 395-day deletion settings described above apply to Matomo; they do not describe how the hosting provider handles its access logs.

Turn measurement off in this browser

The control below stores only your preference in this browser’s local storage. It does not change settings on other devices or remove records already collected. Clearing browser storage resets this choice.

Links to other websites

Source links open documents provided by other organizations. Their privacy practices apply when you visit them. The pilot has no checkout, newsletter form or affiliate purchase links.

Advertising

This site shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar identifiers to show those ads and to measure them. Where the law allows, this can include ads based on your earlier visits to this site and to other sites.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, a consent message from Google appears before any personalized ads are used. It lets you give consent, withhold it, or adjust your options.

You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can also manage ad personalization.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. There is no checkout, account, newsletter or comment form. Any cookies you find here come from the ad service. Our own visitor measurement uses no cookies either, as described elsewhere on this page.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Ads may then be less relevant, but the guides still work.

If you have questions, write to hello@checkenginesolutions.com.