Privacy
This site has no accounts, no sign-up, and no analytics. It keeps the minimum needed to stop one person flooding the board with links, and deletes that within 30 days.
What is stored
Two things, both tied to abuse prevention rather than to you.
A cookie, set when you load the page. It holds a random identifier with no connection to your identity, and its only purpose is limiting how often a single browser can submit a link.
When you submit a link, a one-way transformation of your network address. The address itself is never written down. There is no profile, no record of what you looked at, and nothing linking you to any particular link.
How long it is kept
Records created when you submit a link are deleted 30 days afterwards.
The cookie expires on its own, and clearing your browser data removes it at any point.
What that does and does not protect
Storing a transformed address rather than the address itself limits what would be exposed if this data ever leaked.
It is not the same as making the records untraceable, and this page will not pretend otherwise. The real protection is that there is very little of it and it does not stay around.
What is not collected
No name, email address, phone number, or account of any kind — there is nothing to sign up for.
No analytics or measurement service. No advertising network. No tracking pixels, fingerprinting, or third-party scripts beyond the bot check described below.
Nothing is sold, rented, or shared for marketing. There is no mailing list.
Cookies, and why there is no consent banner
The cookie described above is the only one this site sets, and it exists purely to make the submission limit work. Cookies strictly necessary for a service you asked for do not require a consent banner, and there is nothing else here to consent to.
Showing a banner anyway would suggest something is being collected that is not. If that changes — if analytics were ever added — this page and that decision would change with it.
Others involved
The site runs on Cloudflare, which serves every request and stores the link board. Like any host, Cloudflare can see the requests it handles and applies its own security measures, which may include a cookie of its own for distinguishing automated traffic.
Submitting a link runs Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check that replaces a traditional CAPTCHA. It is deliberately configured not to pass your network address along during that check, even though the option exists.
Clicking through a referral link takes you to computers4people.org, a separate site with its own privacy practices this page does not speak for.
Links you submit
A submitted referral link is published on the board for anyone to use — that is the entire point of the site. Do not submit a link you would not want public; it identifies you as a Shield subscriber to whoever clicks it.
Links are not otherwise linked to whoever submitted them beyond the link itself.
Who runs this
An independent project with no affiliation with Computers 4 People or Shield, no endorsement from either, and no access to their systems.
Some links on the board belong to the operator of this site, and using one benefits them. That is disclosed in the footer of every page.