Privacy, terms and cookies
The short version: there are no accounts, we do not track you, 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 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.
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 We do not publish home addresses, personal contact details, ages, family details or anything else private.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 pageand we will act on it.
Analytics
Aggregate page views only. We use Plausible Analytics, which is cookieless: it sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, collects no personal data and never follows you across sites. One event records whether a lookup found a dossier or not, without what was searched. It is the one third-party request the site makes. Turn Analytics off in the cookie preferences and the script is not loaded.
There are no accounts, tracking pixels, fingerprinting or ad networks.
Cookies and storage
One first-party cookie, bs_consent, records the choice you make in the cookie notice so we do not ask again. It lasts 180 days, is mirrored in your browser's local storage under bs-consent, and holds nothing but that choice. If you allow Functional storage, bs-theme remembers whether you picked the dark or light look; decline Functional and nothing else is stored. If you leave the notice unanswered it closes itself after about twenty seconds and records what is already running: Essential on, Functional off, Analytics on. Your privacy choices, in the footer of every page, reopens your preferences at any time.
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 connection for one hour; the counter holds a number, not a history. 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.