Privacy Policy

One person, suburban Minneapolis, running a woodworking site out of a home office between shop sessions. No privacy team. No legal counsel on retainer. Just a standard hosting setup and one analytics tool. Here's what actually happens when you visit.

What I collect

When you load a page here, the hosting provider logs a standard server entry: IP address, browser type, the page you requested, a timestamp, the referring URL. That's how web hosting works — I can't turn it off, and it's not something I'm actively doing. No signup forms. No user accounts. No email list. Nothing stored on my end beyond what the host logs automatically, and a log entry doesn't tell me who you are.

Cookies

One analytics cookie. Counts page visits without identifying you. No advertising cookies, no retargeting, no cross-site tracking. Block them if you want — nothing on the site breaks, including the plan reviews.

Analytics

I use one analytics service. What it tells me: anonymized page views, browser type, country (not city, not address). No personal profiles, nothing shared with advertisers. I look at it once a week or so, mainly to see whether the workbench posts are getting found through search or just sitting there for me and a few guys from the local woodworking club.

Affiliate links

Some outbound links here are affiliate links — meaning I get paid a small commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. I don't collect or store which links you click personally; that's between you and the retailer. Commission doesn't shape what ends up here. Plans that wasted my Saturday are documented as plans that wasted my Saturday — not softened or quietly removed. For more on how I handle product reviews, see the author page.

Data retention

Server logs: cleared after 30 days. Analytics session data: purged within 30 days. Only aggregate page-view counts survive — post X had Y visits in February — and those don't connect to any individual visitor.

Your rights

EU, EEA, UK, and California residents have rights under GDPR Articles 15–22 and applicable local law: access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), portability (Art. 20), objection (Art. 21). Since this site has no accounts and analytics is anonymized, there's usually nothing personal on my end to access or erase. Email me and I'll confirm what exists.

Contact

Email: brian@weekendwoodworks.com. I read this myself. Response comes in the evenings, after the shop is closed and the sawdust has mostly settled.