Privacy.
One-paragraph summary.
MyClaimWorth is an editorial publication funded by display advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to show those ads, including ads based on your earlier visits to this and other websites, and you can turn personalised ads off at any time (see Advertising below). We do not sell your data. We also collect privacy-first traffic statistics through Cloudflare Web Analytics (no cookies, no IP retention), the email address you give us if you fill in the contact or newsletter form, and standard server logs kept for security purposes. You can ask us to delete any record we hold on you at any time.
Who we are.
MyClaimWorth (“we”, “us”) is the publisher of myclaimworth.com, and is operated by Outline Technologies LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company of 30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. For data-protection purposes Outline Technologies LLC is the data controller for the personal data we collect through this site. The contact for any privacy enquiry, including subject-access requests, is [email protected].
What we collect.
Aggregate analytics. Privacy-first traffic statistics through Cloudflare Web Analytics: page views, referrer, country (derived without storing IP), device category, and session duration. No cookies are set. No IP addresses are retained beyond initial connection.
Contact and newsletter form data. If you submit the contact form, we collect the name, email address, topic, and message text you provide. If you sign up for the newsletter, we collect the email address you provide.
Server logs. Our hosting provider (Vercel) and our email provider (Resend) keep short-term logs for security and abuse-prevention purposes. These logs include connection metadata such as timestamps, user-agent strings, and originating IP addresses. They are retained for the minimum necessary period and are not used for marketing.
Cookies. Google AdSense sets advertising cookies and similar identifiers so it can serve, measure, and limit the frequency of ads. Cloudflare may set a short-lived technical cookie for security purposes (anti-bot, rate-limiting). The Cookies and Advertising sections below explain each one and how to refuse them.
Why we collect it.
We collect aggregate analytics so we can understand which pages readers find useful and prioritise editorial work accordingly. We collect contact-form data so we can reply to your message. We collect newsletter sign-up data so we can send you the newsletter you asked for and so we can honour your unsubscribe.
The lawful basis for our processing under the EU GDPR and UK GDPR is, depending on the processing activity: consent (newsletter sign-up, and advertising cookies for visitors in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland), contract (replying to a specific enquiry), or legitimate interests (security logging and aggregate analytics with no individual tracking). We do not rely on consent for the privacy-first analytics, because no personal data is processed by them. Advertising helps pay for the research and keeps every page free to read.
Advertising.
We use Google AdSense to show display ads on this site. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or 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. These cookies can include the DoubleClick cookie and other Google advertising cookies. Other third-party vendors or ad networks approved by Google may also serve ads on the site and set their own cookies.
You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time in Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info (United States) and youronlinechoices.com (Europe). If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they will not be based on your browsing. Google explains how it uses data from sites that show its ads at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Consent in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland. Visitors from these regions see a consent message from Google, a certified consent management platform, before any advertising cookies are set. You can accept, refuse, or choose by purpose, and you can change your choice later from the privacy link that the message leaves on the page. If you refuse, Google may still show non-personalised ads, which use only limited data for fraud prevention and frequency capping.
Ads do not buy editorial content. Advertisers do not choose, see, or approve any page before it is published, and ad revenue has no effect on the settlement ranges, sources, or conclusions on the site. Ads are placed automatically by Google and are not endorsements. Any sponsorship we sell directly will be labelled “Sponsored” and will not involve reader-level tracking.
Processors we use.
We use a small number of third-party services that act as data processors on our behalf:
- Vercel: hosting and edge delivery. Server logs, session metadata.
- Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, web analytics. Edge security and aggregate analytics.
- Resend: outbound email for the contact form and newsletter.
- Beehiiv (when configured): newsletter delivery and subscription management.
- GitHub: code hosting only; no reader data is stored on GitHub.
- Google (AdSense): display advertising, ad measurement, and the consent message for EEA, UK, and Swiss visitors. Google acts as an independent controller for the advertising cookies it sets, under its own privacy policy at policies.google.com.
Each processor handles data under the terms of a data processing agreement and its own published privacy policy. Where any processor is located outside the European Economic Area, the transfer is governed by Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent transfer mechanism recognised by the EU, UK, or relevant authority.
Retention.
Aggregate analytics: aggregated indefinitely; no individual record is retained.
Contact-form messages: retained as long as needed to deal with the enquiry, then deleted within 24 months unless we need to keep them longer for a specific reason (for example, an open editorial correction or a partnership under negotiation).
Newsletter sign-ups: retained until you unsubscribe. Unsubscribing immediately removes you from active sending lists; we may keep a suppression record (your email address, an unsubscribe flag, the date you unsubscribed) for the minimum period needed to honour the unsubscribe and to demonstrate compliance.
Server logs: retained for the minimum period needed for security purposes, generally not exceeding 90 days, in line with our processors' default policies.
International transfers.
Some of our processors are located outside the EEA and the UK, principally in the United States. Where a transfer of personal data is involved, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK Addendum to the SCCs, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable, or equivalent recognised mechanisms. Cloudflare Web Analytics is designed not to transfer personal data because it does not collect personal data; the contact form and newsletter operate under the SCCs.
Your rights.
Depending on the jurisdiction you are in, you have the following rights over personal data we hold about you:
- access to a copy of the data we hold
- rectification of inaccurate data
- erasure (the “right to be forgotten”) where applicable
- restriction of processing in defined circumstances
- data portability for data we hold under contract or consent
- objection to processing based on legitimate interests
- withdrawal of consent at any time, where consent is the basis
- under the CCPA, the right to know, the right to delete, the right to correct, and the right to opt out of sale (we do not sell)
- under the GDPR and UK GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: in the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO); in Ireland that is the Data Protection Commission; in other EU states, the relevant national authority
To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected] from the email address that the data relates to. We aim to respond within 30 days; complex requests may take longer, in which case we will explain the delay.
Children.
The site is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If you believe we hold data on a minor, write to us and we will delete the record promptly.
Changes to this policy.
We may update this policy from time to time. The last-updated date at the top of the page reflects the most recent substantive change. Material changes will be announced in the newsletter where one is published, or by a banner on the site for two weeks after the change.
Contact.
For privacy enquiries, subject-access requests, or to report a data-protection concern, write to [email protected].