The tone is silly. The facts are not: every statement on this page is true, and where something is out of our hands we say so.
The short version
We do not collect your personal data. An asteroid on a flyby collects more information about you than this website does, and it has no instruments.
What we do not have
No cookies. No accounts. No forms. No newsletter. No analytics service. No advertising. No tracking pixels. No fingerprinting. No "accept all". No consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.
What we do count
We keep a tally of how many times each page has been opened: one plain number per page, stored in our own database. It cannot tell us who you are, where you are, what device you use, or whether you were wearing trousers. That tally is the "visits" figure on the home page, and it is the whole of our analytics.
Your IP address
To send you a page, your browser has to tell the server where to send it, in the same way a letter has to be posted from somewhere. We do not write it down and we do not use it. Our hosting provider, Hostinger, may keep standard technical server logs, as web hosts do, for running and securing the service. We do not access or use them.
Other companies
NASA. Your browser never contacts NASA. Our server asks NASA for asteroid data about once an hour, and never sends anything about visitors.
YouTube. The Rocks on screen page embeds videos using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not set tracking cookies until you play something. Your browser does contact YouTube to load each player, so YouTube can see that request, and anything you do inside a player is covered by Google's own policies, not ours. If you would rather avoid that, do not open that page.
Share buttons. These are plain links. Nothing is sent anywhere until you click one, and then you are on X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google Calendar, which have their own rules.
Selling your data
There is nothing to sell. Not even the asteroids, which belong to nobody.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you may ask what we hold about you. The answer is nothing, and it takes us about a second to say so. Requests to erase your data are our favourite kind.
Asking us anything
Questions about this policy go to Cultured Digital, whose contact details are on Dean's about page.
Changes
If we ever start collecting anything, we will change this page first and tell you at the top of it. That is unlikely.