Privacy, terms and cookies
The short version: there are no accounts, we do not follow you across sites, and we keep your email only if you give it to us for a specific reason, and only for as long as that reason lasts.
Lookups
When you look up a website or company, what you typed is checked against the dossiers we have published. If there is no dossier yet, we record the website or name you searched for and how many times it has been searched, so we know what to research next. That record holds the search, not who made it: no IP address, account or device detail is stored with it.
Emails you give us
"Email me when it is ready." If you leave your address on a page for a site we have not researched yet, we store it with that one search, and your comment if you add one, and send a single message when its dossier is published. The address is then deleted. If the dossier is never published, the address is deleted 12 months after you gave it.
Contact form. Your email, the topic, the website you name and your message are stored so we can reply, and deleted 12 months after we receive them. Messages are forwarded to our mailbox by Cloudflare Email Routing.
With either form we also keep the page it was sent from and the request's technical details (IP address, browser identification, language, and approximate location and network), to act on the request and to tell abuse from real interest. They are deleted with the rest of it. Both forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that tells people from bots, which loads only once you start filling a form in.
We never sell, share or add these addresses to a mailing list. Write to us to have yours removed sooner.
People named in dossiers
Dossiers describe organizations. Where they name people, such as founders, they include only professional facts that are already public (name, role, previous roles and public professional profiles), each with its source. We do not publish home addresses, personal contact details, ages, family details or anything else private. If you are named and want your details corrected or removed, use the contact page and we will act on it.
Analytics
We use Plausible Analytics and Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: pages visited, the referring site, country, device and browser type, and one event that records whether a lookup found a dossier or not, without what was searched. Plausible is cookieless and keeps no personal data. Google Analytics is provided by Google, which processes this data on our behalf under its data processing terms; it sets the cookies listed under Cookies and storage below and does not store IP addresses. We keep Google Analytics data for 14 months. We run it with Google signals and ad personalization turned off and do not use it for advertising; in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it runs without cookies until you accept Analytics. See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Turn Analytics off in the cookie preferences and neither tool counts your visits, and the Google Analytics cookies are removed.
There are no accounts, tracking pixels, fingerprinting or ad networks.
Hosting
The site runs on Cloudflare's network. Cloudflare may keep short-lived operational logs (such as IP address and requested URL) for security and abuse prevention under Cloudflare's privacy policy. To stop abuse we count requests per network for one hour, under a one-way hash of the address; the counter holds a number, not a history or an address. We keep a small sample of request logs for a few days to fix errors.
Terms of use
Behind the Site is provided free of charge and as is, without warranty of any kind. Dossiers are compiled from public sources at the date shown on each one; they may be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and they are not legal, financial or investment advice. Check the linked sources before relying on anything. Do not use the site to harass anyone, to build a database of people, or to send automated requests. We may limit, suspend or change the service at any time. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the site or of the sites it links to. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and any dispute will be heard in the courts of Palm Beach County, Florida, except where consumer law in your country gives you rights that cannot be waived.
Children
The site is not directed at children under 13 and we knowingly collect no personal data from children.
Questions
Use the contact page or email hello@behindthe.site.