Privacy
This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from anyone else's servers. That is not a marketing position, it is just what the site is: a stylesheet, a handful of HTML pages, and an icon.
Cookies
No cookie is written by this site — not a first-party one, not a third-party one, not a session identifier, and nothing is put into local or session storage either. That is why no consent banner ever appears: a banner asks permission for something, and there is no something. Open your browser's storage inspector on any page here and it will be empty.
Analytics and tracking
Nothing measures you here. No page-view counter, no tag manager, no marketing pixel, no heat mapping, no session replay, no advertising or remarketing tag. The practical consequence is that I have no idea which entries get read and which get ignored, and I decided some time ago that I could live with that.
Third-party content
Everything a page needs comes from this domain and nowhere else. No externally hosted typefaces, no content delivery network, no embedded video player, no social buttons, no comment platform, no framed content of any kind. Loading a page here does not cause your browser to open a connection to another company. The type you are reading is whatever your own device already had installed.
Scripts
There is no JavaScript on this site at all. Every page is static HTML styled with one stylesheet. If your browser blocks scripts entirely, the site is unaffected, because there was nothing to block.
Server logs
My host writes the ordinary access log that every web server writes. A line in it usually holds the requesting IP address, a timestamp, the path asked for, and the user-agent string the browser announced. I never open those logs to analyse them, never build a profile out of them, and never join them to anything else; they age out on the host's own default retention schedule, which exists for security and fault-finding. Switching them off is not something a customer can do — it is simply how the software works.
Email you send me
Mail sent to the address on the contact page lands in a normal mailbox and stays there long enough for me to answer it. Answering it is the only use it gets. Your address goes onto no list, receives nothing you did not ask for, and is handed to nobody. Nothing on this site is a subscription of any sort. Ask me to delete a message and it gets deleted.
Accounts and forms
There are no accounts, no logins, no sign-up forms, no comment boxes and no search box that sends anything to a server. There is nowhere on this site to enter personal information, which is the simplest way I know of to protect it.
Children
This site is a set of written articles about casual video games. It collects nothing from anybody, of any age.
Your rights
Data protection law entitles you to see, correct and erase personal data held about you. In practice there is almost nothing here to aim those rights at, because beyond the host's automatic server log this site keeps nothing at all about the people who read it. The one exception is email: if we have corresponded and you would rather that thread did not exist, say so at the address on the contact page and I will destroy it.
Changes to this page
If the site ever changes in a way that affects any of the above — if I added a search function, for example — I would rewrite this page before making the change, and the revision date at the top would tell you when. As of the date shown, everything above is accurate.
Thumbstick Diary is a personal, informational site of written opinions about small video games. It sells nothing, promotes nothing, and covers only free casual apps with no cash element in either direction. It is unaffiliated with any developer, publisher or application store, and any game name it mentions is the trade mark of whoever made that game.