Your Data
Privacy Policy
This policy explains what information is collected when you use this site and what happens to it. It is written to be readable, because a privacy policy nobody can understand protects nobody.
What we collect
Reading the site collects almost nothing. Like nearly every website, our hosting provider records standard server logs, the pages requested, the time, and the requesting IP address, for security and abuse prevention. We do not require accounts, we do not run comment sections, and we do not ask for your name to read a review.
Affiliate links set retailer cookies. When you click a link to a retailer such as Amazon, that retailer may set cookies or use similar technologies to attribute the purchase to this site, per that retailer's own privacy policy. We do not control those technologies and we do not receive your name, address, payment details, or individual purchase history from retailers, only aggregate commission reporting.
Email you send us stays with us. If you write to hello@homesteadgearlab.com, we keep the correspondence so we can answer it, and we do not sell, rent, or share it with anyone.
How we use it
Server logs are used to keep the site secure and diagnose problems. Aggregate, anonymized traffic statistics may be reviewed to understand which guides are useful, the kind of counting every publisher does that cannot identify you. We do not sell personal data, we do not run advertising networks, and we do not build behavioral profiles.
If analytics tooling is ever added to this site, this page will be updated before it goes live, with what is collected and the controls available to you.
Your choices
You can browse this site with any content or cookie blocking tools you like; every page works fully with third party cookies blocked, because we do not depend on them. Retailer cookies are governed by the retailer's own policy and the choices they provide.
If you have emailed us and want your correspondence deleted, write to hello@homesteadgearlab.com and we will remove it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated date below changes with it, and material changes will be noted on this page rather than silently replaced. Questions about privacy can be sent to hello@homesteadgearlab.com. This policy is effective as of October 2026.