Privacy Policy

This site is run by Lauren and Mike Hayes, writing about backup power from a home office outside Houston. What follows is a plain description of what happens when you load a page on this site. Questions: email via the contact page, we check it daily.

Server logs

When you load a page here, the hosting provider records the request: IP address, browser, the page you loaded, a timestamp, and the referring URL. That's standard. We don't run signup forms, comment sections, or user accounts — no personal information is stored on our end.

Cookies

One cookie type: a session identifier used by the analytics tool described below. No advertising cookies, no remarketing, no cross-site tracking. Block cookies in your browser if you want — nothing on the site breaks.

Analytics

We use a privacy-respecting analytics service to see which pages are being read and where visitors are coming from — no personal data collected, no advertising profiles built. We open the dashboard occasionally to see which backup power reviews are landing. The service doesn't share data with advertisers.

Affiliate Links

Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links — meaning we earn a small commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. We don't collect or store data about which links you click. For more on how we handle affiliate relationships, see the disclosure on the author page.

Data retention

Server logs: 30 days, then deleted. Analytics session data: purged within 30 days. Only aggregate page-view counts are kept past that window.

Your rights

If you're in the EU, UK, or California, you have specific rights over any personal data that might relate to your visit — including access, correction, or deletion. In practice, since we don't run accounts and the analytics is already anonymized, there's usually nothing personal to retrieve. Send an email with "privacy" in the subject and we'll reply within a couple of days.

Contact about privacy

Email via the contact page. There's no privacy team — just two people in a home office in suburban Houston, one of whom is also keeping a child's insulin organized and the other coaching little league.