This page explains what www.themarcoharder.com does with information when you read its pages, and what it does not do.
A Small Visit Count Runs When You Arrive From Search
The site uses a first-party visit beacon to count its own traffic. It is first-party because it reports only to this site and to no outside analytics service. It runs only when you arrive from a search engine. If you reach a page any other way, no visit information is collected.
When it runs, the beacon records four details:
- the path of the page you are viewing
- the type of event, such as a page view or a click
- the name of the search engine that referred you
- the text of an outbound button, if you click one
These details are used only to count page views and clicks on outbound buttons. They are not used for any other purpose. They do not include your name, e-mail address, account identifier or payment details, and the site does not build a record about you as an individual visitor. This page covers only what the site's build confirmed, so it gives no retention period for these counts beyond saying that they are not tied to any individual.
One Session Flag Keeps Each View From Being Counted Twice
To count a single page view once, the site keeps one flag in your browser for the current session. The flag contains no personal data. It exists only so that reloading or revisiting a page during the same session does not inflate the count. It lasts for the current browsing session only.
Apart from this flag, the site sets no other browser storage and no persistent identifier. It does not use cookies. Nothing remains in your browser that would let the site recognise you on a later visit.
Every File Comes From This Domain
The pages are self-contained. The text, layout and locally embedded fonts are all delivered from this domain. While a page is displayed, your browser does not fetch anything from an outside host. No external subresources are loaded, so no font service, advertising network, data broker or third-party analytics provider receives a request because you opened a page here.
The site is a set of static files served by a content delivery network. As the hosting provider, that network processes the technical data that comes with every web request, as any web server must in order to deliver a page. This is part of how the files reach your browser, and it is separate from the site's own visit counting.
The Site Asks Nothing of You, and Linked Sites Set Their Own Terms
The site has no forms, no login, no registration, no user accounts and no contact channels. Because nothing is requested from you, there is no consent prompt and no account to create, and you are never asked for a personal detail. Do not send personal information through any channel that claims to belong to this site, because the site provides none.
Some pages contain outbound links to third-party sites. If you follow one, your browser opens a separate site and sends the request to it directly. That site keeps its own record of your visit under its own practices, and this site has no control over those practices. The only thing this site notes about such a click is the text of the outbound button, and only as part of the search-referred count described above. Before you share anything with a linked destination, read that destination's own privacy information.