Privacy notice and terms of use

This site sets no cookies. That is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to, and a banner asking you to agree to nothing would be theatre.

It does use your browser’s local storage, which is a different thing. Local storage stays on your own machine and is never transmitted with a request the way a cookie is. Two keys are used, both listed in the manifest above:

• gr-order-v1 — your draft advertising order, so a reload does not throw away what you configured. It holds the name, email and company you typed into the order form along with the order itself, and it is the only personal data this site stores anywhere. Kept until you clear it.
• gr-feeds-v1 — the latest headline from each title, cached for six hours so the home page does not make fifteen requests every time you visit.

You can delete both at any time by clearing site data for this domain in your browser settings. Nothing breaks if you do; the order builder simply starts empty and the headlines refetch.

If your browser blocks storage entirely, the site handles it. The order builder falls back to keeping your draft in memory for the session, and the headline cache is skipped.

There is one, and it needs stating properly rather than buried.

The home page contacts all fifteen titles. To show the newest headline under each title, your browser requests a feed from each of the fifteen domains. They are our own domains, but they are third-party requests from your browser’s point of view, and the fifteen titles are hosted by Blogger, which is operated by Google — so those requests reach Google’s servers, carry your IP address and browser details as any web request does, and may involve cookies Google has already set for those domains. What Google does with that is governed by Google’s privacy policy, not by this one.

These requests are made only on the home page, only after the page has finished drawing, and the results are cached for six hours so they are not repeated on every visit. If you never open the home page, they never happen.

Everything else this site needs, it serves itself. Fonts, stylesheets, scripts and the price data are all files on this domain. There is no content delivery network, no embedded video, no social widget, no comment platform, no hosted form service and no payment processor — on any page.

If advertising is ever added to this site, this section changes first. An ad network is a third party that collects data, and it would have to be named here before a single script went live.

The two browser-storage items expire as stated above — six hours for the headline cache, and until you clear it for the order draft. Both are on your machine, so you control them entirely.

Email you send us is a different matter, and two of the periods below are not yet set. We would rather show that than fill the gap with a number nobody has agreed to, because a retention period is a promise about deletion and an invented one is a promise that will be broken:

• Correspondence sent to our inboxes: [[EMAIL_RETENTION]]
• Server access logs, kept by the host rather than by us: [[LOG_RETENTION]]

If you want your correspondence deleted before then, ask on the legal route and we will delete it and confirm that we have.

Data protection law differs by country and we are not going to recite a statute we may not be subject to. What we will commit to, for anyone anywhere, is this:

• Ask what we hold about you and we will tell you. In almost every case the honest answer will be "an email you sent us, and nothing else."
• Ask us to correct it and we will.
• Ask us to delete it and we will, unless we are required to keep it — in which case we will tell you that, and why.
• Ask us to stop contacting you and we will stop.
• Ask how something works — including anything on this page — and you will get a straight answer from a person.

We do not require you to prove a legal basis before we do any of these. Requests go to the legal route and are acknowledged within 24 hours.

The governing jurisdiction for this site is [[JURISDICTION]]. That is unset rather than omitted, and it is one of the things a lawyer needs to settle before launch. §6a sets out what turns on it.

§6 declines to recite a statute we may not be subject to. That is deliberate, and it is not the same as pretending the question does not exist. This section names the regimes that plausibly reach this site and states what is unsettled about each. It does not claim that this site complies with any of them. No filing, registration or regulator position has been checked, and none is asserted here.

The operating jurisdiction is unset, and it decides the rest. Where the operator is established is what determines which of the following actually applies and to what extent. Until [[JURISDICTION]] in §6 is settled, everything below is an assessment in progress rather than a conclusion.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 is the regime most likely to be engaged. The audience across the fifteen titles is mostly in India, and the Act reaches processing carried on outside India where it is connected with offering goods or services to people in India. A rate card sold against an India-facing audience is squarely the kind of thing that provision contemplates. Whether it applies here, and from what date given the Act’s phased commencement, is being assessed with counsel. We are not asserting that we satisfy it.

The GDPR turns on whether a site targets people in the EU or monitors their behaviour. This site does neither: it sells nothing into the EU, runs no analytics, sets no cookies and builds no profiles. But the fifteen titles are readable anywhere, so the honest answer is that this needs assessing, not that the answer is obviously no.

California’s CCPA and CPRA apply to for-profit businesses above revenue and volume thresholds that an operation this size is very unlikely to meet. That is the easiest of the three to answer, and we would rather answer it than leave it unmentioned.

Who answers data questions. They go to the legal route, which is read by a person rather than a ticket queue. A regime such as DPDP expects a named person or role to be published alongside the mailbox, and that is [[DATA_CONTACT_ROLE]] — unset rather than omitted, for the same reason as the retention periods in §5. A role nobody has agreed to is not a contact; it is a name to hide behind.

Anything about this notice, your data, or a deletion request goes to grsites15@gmail.com on the legal route. Acknowledged within 24 hours.

All four contact routes and their response windows

A great deal of what the fifteen titles publish is opinion: that a product is poor value, that a policy is wrong, that a company has treated its customers badly. Opinion is offered as opinion, honestly held, on facts stated in the piece so you can judge it for yourself.

Where we get a fact wrong, that is a correction and the route is clause 5 of the editorial standards — acknowledged within 24 hours, corrected on the article, and dated.

Where you simply disagree with a view, tell us and we will publish or link a considered reply. What we will not do is remove honestly held criticism because its subject would prefer it gone, and no amount of money changes that — see clause 6.

Nothing on this site or on the fifteen titles is professional advice. Specifically, it is not legal, financial, investment, tax, medical or employment advice, and it is not a substitute for advice from somebody qualified and regulated to give it in your country.

Some titles write about consumer rights, warranty entitlements, tax and settlement rules, and employment conditions. Those pieces describe how something generally works. They cannot account for your circumstances, and the rules differ by jurisdiction and change over time.

We do not recommend investments and we do not promote brokers, funds or crypto assets. If you ever find such a promotion on one of the fifteen titles, it does not belong there — report it on the legal route and it will be removed.

Content published by G R Sites on this site and the fifteen titles is ours unless it says otherwise. Quote it with attribution; do not republish it wholesale.

That claim stops where our publishing does. Material inherited with a domain somebody else registered first may well be owned by others, and we do not claim copyright in work we did not commission — the fact that it sits on a domain we now run does not make it ours. The note at the end of this clause says more, and rights claims over that material use the same route as anything else.

If you believe something here infringes your copyright, or is defamatory, or breaches your privacy, write to grsites15@gmail.com on the legal route and include:

• the exact URL you are complaining about;
• what the complaint is — copyright, defamation, privacy or something else;
• the work or the right you rely on, and evidence you hold it;
• your name and your capacity to act;
• your email address, and a postal address we can write to;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use you are complaining about is not authorised by you, your agent, or the law;
• a statement that the information you have given is accurate, and that you are authorised to act for the owner of the right;
• your signature — typing your name at the end is enough.

We acknowledge within 24 hours, and aim to resolve a complaint within [[RESOLUTION_WINDOW]] of acknowledging it. That second figure is unset rather than omitted, for the same reason as the retention periods in §5: a resolution window is a promise, and one nobody has agreed to is a promise that will be broken. Where a complaint is well founded the material comes down or is corrected, and we tell you what we did. Where we do not agree, we say so and say why, and clause 10 of the editorial standards is the escalation — including the plain statement there that we are the end of that process and are not members of any external complaints body.

If your material is the material that came down. Anyone whose work is removed after a complaint can contest it on the same route. We will tell you what the complaint was and on what basis it was accepted, and you can answer it. If the complaint is not maintained, or your answer stands up, the material goes back and we tell you it has. This is our own procedure and not a statutory counter-notice: following it does not give us or anybody else safe-harbour protection, and it could not — this site publishes its own material and is not an intermediary hosting somebody else’s.

The fifteen titles are hosted by Blogger, which Google operates. Google runs its own content-removal process for material on Blogger, and a complainant who is not satisfied with our answer can use it. We would rather deal with you directly and faster, so that is an additional route rather than a substitute for writing to us — but it exists, and saying so is more useful to you than leaving you to find it.

A specific note on inherited archives. Several titles run on domains registered by somebody else first, and material published under that prior ownership was not commissioned by us. We are working through those archives against current standards. If you find something from that era that infringes your rights, the route above is the fastest way to have it removed, and we would rather you used it than assumed we already knew.

This notice is reviewed annually, and immediately whenever something in it stops being true — a new third party, an analytics tool, an advertising script, a change to what is stored. The manifest in §2 is updated before the change goes live, not after.

The date at the head of this page is the last update, and it is edited by hand rather than generated, so it cannot quietly claim a review that never happened.

Last updated: 10 August 2026.

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