LEGAL
Privacy
LAST UPDATED 2026-09-21
This site is a free library. It has no forms, no accounts, no email sign-up and no checkout, so it does not ask you for any personal information. It sets no cookies. It counts page views with a cookieless analytics tool that does not identify you. Dustin Larsen runs this site.
1. What you give this site
Nothing. There is nowhere on this site to type your name, your email address or a payment detail. Guides open without a sign-up, and PDFs download as plain files.
2. Analytics
I use Vercel Web Analytics to see which pages get read. It does not use cookies and does not follow you to other websites. For each page view it records the time, the page address, the site that sent you here, your approximate location (country, region and city), your device type, your operating system and its version, your browser and its version, and the version of the analytics script. Anything after a question mark in a page address is removed before it is recorded. To count visitors, Vercel makes a short-lived code from the incoming request and discards it after 24 hours. I see totals only. I cannot see who you are. There are no advertising pixels on this site.
3. Hosting
Vercel hosts this site. Like any web host, Vercel's servers receive your IP address and basic request details in order to deliver the pages and keep the service secure. Vercel handles that information under its own privacy policy.
4. Instagram and other sites
Links on this site go to Instagram and to the tools the guides cover. Once you leave this site, the other site's privacy policy applies. If you message @thesideop, Instagram (Meta) handles that message under its own policy. A message on Instagram does not add you to an email list.
5. Children
This site is written for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and I do not knowingly collect information from them.
6. Questions
Because this site does not collect information that identifies you, there is usually nothing on file to look up, correct or delete. If you have a privacy question, message @thesideop on Instagram.
7. Changes
If this site adds email sign-up, accounts or sales, the full Privacy Policy replaces this page before any of those go live, and the date at the top changes.