SyntaxMine

// legal

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 27, 2026

The short version

SyntaxMine does not set its own tracking cookies and does not collect personally identifying information. We use a privacy-friendly analytics tool (Umami) that records aggregate page visits: no names, no IPs, no fingerprints, plus Google Analytics for traffic reporting. The site displays advertising served by Journey by Mediavine, which sets advertising cookies as described in the Advertising section below.

The only situation where data leaves the site is when you choose to click an affiliate link to a hosting provider. From that moment, the provider's own privacy policy applies, not ours.

What we collect

  • Aggregate page views via Umami Cloud. No cookies. IP addresses are not stored. The data tells us which articles get read, roughly where readers are (country level), and which browser/OS they use.
  • Affiliate link clicks. When you click a tagged hosting link, we record the partner and the campaign tag in our analytics. We do not record who clicked.
  • Server logs at our hosting provider (Cloudflare Workers) for security and abuse prevention. Standard request metadata, retained for a short period, never combined with analytics.

What we don't collect

  • No advertising or social tracking pixels of our own. No Facebook Pixel, no TikTok pixel. Beyond the analytics named above, the only third-party cookies that may appear are the advertising cookies described below.
  • No personal accounts on the public side of the site, so no profiles or preferences.
  • No email addresses (we do not run a newsletter yet: when we do, it will be opt-in only and described here).
  • No fingerprinting, no session recording, no heatmaps.

Third parties

Four third parties touch your data when you use SyntaxMine:

Advertising

SyntaxMine displays advertisements served by Journey by Mediavine. Mediavine and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, and to limit how often you see the same ad. Some partners may use this data to show you ads based on your activity on this and other websites.

  • Mediavine's own handling of this data is described in the Mediavine privacy policy, which also lists the advertising partners it works with.
  • Visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland are asked for consent before any advertising cookie is set, through Mediavine's consent management platform built on the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Declining is a valid choice: you can keep reading, and you will be shown non-personalized ads instead.
  • You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the privacy preferences link Mediavine places on the page. Residents of California and other US states with similar laws can use the same control to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
  • You can also opt out of interest-based advertising industry-wide at www.aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.eu.

Advertising never affects editorial content: guides are written and tested first, and ads have no influence on what we recommend.

Affiliate links

Some hosting links on this site are affiliate links. When you click one, your browser is redirected to the partner's site with a tracking parameter that tells them you came from SyntaxMine. The partner's privacy policy takes over from that point.

Full details are on the Affiliate Disclosure page.

Your rights

Because we do not store personal data, there is no profile to access, correct, or delete. If you have questions or believe something on the site does collect data we haven't described here, contact us at contact@syntaxmine.com.

Changes to this policy

If we add a newsletter, a contact form, comments, or any other feature that touches user data, this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date at the top will move forward. Material changes will also be flagged in a site-wide notice.