Privacy

Short version: you can read everything on Phool without giving us anything. If you subscribe we keep your email address. Analytics cookies are used only if you say yes.

The welcome screen

On your first visit a welcome screen offers the weekly email and asks about analytics cookies. Both are optional and neither is ticked for you. "Just let me in" declines both. Your choice is remembered in your browser so the screen does not come back.

What we collect

Email address, only if you subscribe. We store it with the date you signed up and confirmed, the country your request came from, and the wording you agreed to, and use it to send the weekly email. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Email is sent through Plinth, our email service.

Analytics, only with your consent. If you allow it, Google Analytics sets cookies and records which pages are visited, roughly where visitors are and what device they use. If you decline, it is not loaded at all. Change your choice at any time with "Cookie choices" at the foot of any page.

Advertising counts. We count how often each sponsored placement is seen and clicked. The counts are totals per day and are not tied to you.

Bot detection. We may use ClearTrust to tell automated traffic from real visitors. It looks at technical signals of the request and does not identify you.

What we do not do

We do not sell personal data or build profiles of readers.

Where it is kept

The site runs on Railway and Cloudflare. Photos are served by Wikimedia.

Your rights

Ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, or for it to be deleted, at phool@cleartrust.cc.

Phool is run by ClearTrust. Last updated 2026-10.