Privacy policy

This policy explains what data Stillwater (lavenderfield.top) collects, why, and what you can do about it. It applies to every page on this domain, in both the English and the Chinese sections of the site.

What we collect directly

Nothing that identifies you. This site sets no login, no account and no user-submitted content. The only cookie we would ever set ourselves is a strictly necessary one, and at present we set none.

Our server writes standard access logs — IP address, timestamp, request path, referrer and user agent. These logs exist to keep the site running and to detect abuse, and they are retained for a limited period before being rotated out.

Advertising: Google AdSense and DoubleClick

This site is supported by advertising and may serve ads through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie for this purpose, which lets it and its partners serve interest-based advertisements.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting aboutads.info, or in the EU by visiting youronlinechoices.com.

Where advertising is served in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we use Google’s consent management platform to collect and record your consent choices before any personalised advertising cookie is set. Declining personalised advertising does not remove advertising; it makes the advertising you see less relevant to you.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not pass any data you send us by email to advertisers.

Analytics

If a Google Analytics 4 property is configured for this domain, it records aggregate usage — pages viewed, approximate region, device class and referral source. Analytics data is used only to understand which parts of the library are useful. It is not used to build a profile of you, and it is not joined to advertising data by us.

You can block analytics and advertising scripts entirely with a browser extension or by disabling JavaScript. Every page on this site is readable and navigable with JavaScript switched off.

Legal bases under the GDPR

For visitors in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, we rely on the following legal bases: legitimate interests for the access logs described above (keeping the site available and secure), and consent for personalised advertising and for any analytics cookies that are not strictly necessary. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it at any time through the consent control on the page, and withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdrew it.

You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. Because we hold almost no personal data directly, most requests of this kind resolve to the access logs or to the advertising and analytics providers, and we will tell you which when you ask.

Your rights in California (CCPA/CPRA)

California residents have the right to know what categories of personal information are collected, the right to request deletion, the right to correct inaccurate information, and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

We do not sell personal information for money. The use of advertising cookies described above may constitute "sharing" for cross-context behavioural advertising under the CPRA; you can opt out of that through the consent control on the page or through Google’s Ads Settings. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Children

This site is written for adults planning their own swims. It is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Third parties and transfers

Advertising and analytics providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States, under their own safeguards. We do not control those providers’ retention periods; their policies are the authoritative source for data they hold.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top of this page. Questions, access requests and deletion requests go to [email protected].