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Privacy

This site collects as little as a website can: it runs no analytics, sets no cookies and has no forms, and videos load nothing from YouTube until you press play.

Updated 11 November 2026

What the site does not do

There is no analytics script, no tracking pixel and no advertising code on any page. The site sets no cookies of its own and asks for none. There are no forms, no sign-ups, no comment boxes and no accounts, so there is nothing for you to type in and nothing for us to store. We do not build profiles of readers or sell or share any information about visits.

Videos

A few pages include a short video from a water utility, a government agency or a fixture maker. Each one is shown as a still picture with a play button. Nothing is loaded from YouTube while you read the page. Only when you press play does your browser connect to youtube-nocookie.com, the privacy-enhanced embed domain YouTube offers, and fetch the video from there. From that point YouTube's own privacy policy applies to the video, as it would on YouTube itself. If you would rather not connect, leave the picture alone; the page around it makes the same point in writing.

Fonts and images

The fonts are served from this site, not from a font service, so reading a page does not send your address to a third party for type. Photos and drawings are also served from this site.

Pages link to EPA, ENERGY STAR, federal and state rule pages, water utilities and university extension services, and a few pages carry a marked link to a business that shares this site's team. Following a link takes you to that site, where its own privacy policy applies. Nothing is passed along with the click beyond what any browser sends when it opens a link.

Server logs

Like nearly every web host, the company that hosts this site keeps standard server logs: the address a request came from, the time, the page asked for and the browser's own description of itself. Those logs are used to keep the site running and to deal with abuse, and they are kept and deleted under the host's normal practice. We do not combine them with anything else.

Changes

If anything on this page changes, such as a new type of embed, this page will be updated before the change goes live. It was last reviewed on 11 Nov 2026.