Your privacy
What we know about you, drawn out.
Version 2.0 · effective 31 August 2026
Most websites watch you more closely than they let on. Here is what we do instead, and how to check it. This is the whole notice — there is no sterner second one for the lawyers.
The short answer
- Cookies put in your browser
- None
- Tracking or analytics scripts
- None
- Third‑party companies given your visit
- None
- Advertising, pixels, fingerprinting
- None
- Accounts you must create
- None
Check it yourself: open your browser's developer tools, reload, and look at the Network tab. Every request goes to owleryworks.com.au and nowhere else. Storage holds no cookies.
How it usually works
The search, the click, and the companies you never chose.
- You search “markdown to word”
- You click a result
- Their page loads …and so do 7 other scripts
and each of those scripts reports back to
- Analytics
- Ad network
- Social pixel
- Data broker
The same handful of companies sit on most of the web, so a cookie recognises you on the next site, and the one after that.
None of it requires you to sign in or agree to anything. It is why a pair of shoes follows you around for a fortnight, and what the cookie banner is really asking permission for.
How we do it
Our server writes a line down, and counts the lines.
- You open a page
- Our server sends the page, writes one line
that one line then goes two ways
- The line itself the only place your address appears deleted after 14 days
- What was counted from it which page, when, where you came from — no address in it kept for 2 years
No script on the page · nothing loaded from anyone else · nothing sent anywhere. All of it on one computer, in Sydney, that we rent.
What is kept, and for how long
The record that could point at a person is the short-lived one; what survives says nothing about whose it was.
| What | Points at you? | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| The server log line | Yes — it has your address in it | 14 days |
| The day’s random number, and the scrambled string it makes | Only within that one day | Until the next day |
| A visit: when, which pages, which country, what you arrived from | No — no address, no scrambled string | 2 years |
What a log line says, word by word
Your browser sends all of this to every website you visit, whether or not the site keeps it:
203.0.113.42 · 31/Aug/2026:15:14:02 · GET /bindery/ · 200 · from google.com · Safari on iPhone
- 203.0.113.42
- The address your connection was using. We turn it into a country, then it is gone.
- 31/Aug/2026:15:14:02
- When. This is how “visits this week” gets counted.
- GET /bindery/
- Which page, so we know which app people look at.
- 200
- That it worked. A 404 tells us a link is broken.
- from google.com
- Where you came from. Your browser volunteers this; we do not ask.
- Safari on iPhone
- Roughly what you are reading on, so we know the site works on a phone.
How we count people without a cookie
Counting people rather than clicks normally means a cookie. We do it another way:
- Each morning the server invents a random number and tells nobody.
- It scrambles that number with your address and browser name into a short, meaningless string.
- Two visits the same day scramble alike, so they were probably one person.
- Next morning the number is thrown away, and the scrambling can never be redone.
So somebody visiting on Monday and Tuesday counts as two people. That is a worse statistic, and it is the one we chose.
Case numbers your browser keeps
If you raise a support case, your browser remembers the numbers you were given, up to twelve, so the page can show them back to you. They stay on your device and are never sent to us — we issued them, so we have them already. There is a button on the support page to forget them. It is not a cookie, and it identifies you nowhere else.
If you write to us
A case holds only what the form sends: which app and what kind of problem, what you wrote, the device line if you filled it in, your email address only if you asked to be emailed, and the case number. Not kept: your address, any fingerprint, or anything about how you reached the form.
- No address given? The number is the only link between you and the case, and we cannot get it back if you lose it.
- Address given? It answers that case, then is deleted when the case closes. There is no list.
- The case itself is deleted twelve months after it closes.
- Please leave personal details out. Tell us what broke; you rarely need to tell us who was in the room.
The one email that leaves this server
When a case arrives, our server emails us to say so. That email carries the case number, which app, which topic, the time, and whether an address was given. It does not carry your report or your address — if you reported anonymously, nothing in it could identify you.
Besides that mailbox, the only companies involved in this site existing are the one that rents us the computer and the one that issues its certificate. Neither is given anything from a case.
Asking us to change or delete something
Under the Australian Privacy Act, and the GDPR or similar law if it covers you, you may ask what we hold, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be erased. For a case, quote the number through the support form and say what you want done. For an anonymous case that number is the only proof of ownership — so keep it to yourself.
For anything counted from the log there is nothing to attach a request to: by design we cannot find your visits, because nothing kept says which were yours.
What this costs us
- We cannot tell whether you came back next week.
- We cannot follow you to another website, and no one can use us to.
- We have very little to lose in a breach, or to be compelled to hand over.
We would quite like to know what works. We decided knowing less about you is worth more — and this page exists so you can hold us to it.
How our apps handle it
They think on your device, have no account to create, and send nothing anywhere — so their notices are short.
Each app’s privacy notice
Anything here unclear, or worse, wrong? Tell us through the support form. A privacy page that cannot be questioned is a poster.