Cookie Policy
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What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that websites store in your browser. They are commonly used to maintain sessions, remember preferences, and — on many commercial sites — to track user behaviour for advertising purposes. We describe our specific use below.
What we use
We do not run advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or behavioural profiling on this site.
Our hosting provider may set basic technical cookies or session identifiers as part of delivering the site securely and reliably. These are not used for advertising or profiling.
If you subscribe to the Daily Bulletin, Buttondown may set cookies when you interact with subscription-related pages. Their cookie and privacy practices apply.
Analytics
We use PostHog for basic, privacy-respecting analytics — page views, referral sources, general traffic patterns. It runs in cookieless mode on this site: analytics state is kept in memory only, no cookies or persistent identifiers are stored in your browser, and the data is not used to identify individual users.
On the buyer's checklist we also record a small, fixed set of workflow events, so we can see whether the checklist is usable: opening it, starting it, changing the machine type, depth or purchase route, completing the readiness gate, reaching and completing a phase, triggering a stop-and-verify check, reaching the decision dossier, requesting a print, and recording a Continue, Pause or Reject decision. These carry only counts, fixed option labels and our own checklist identifiers.
What we never send: the serial or PIN, make, model, year, hours, asking price, currency, location, listing link, your private notes, your decision reason, seller details, or any other text you type. One event records whether valid saved checklist state was already present in your browser when the page opened — a yes or no, and nothing about what it contained. Automatic click and element capture, rage-click capture and session replay are all switched off.
Managing cookies
You can clear or block cookies at any time through your browser settings. The specific steps vary by browser — consult your browser's help documentation.
Blocking cookies will not affect your ability to read content on this site.