Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no tracking cookies of our own, and anything you type into a checklist stays in your browser.

Last updated October 8, 2026.

Visiting the site

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes basic request information (such as IP address and browser type) to deliver pages and block attacks.

Visitor counts come from Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies and does not build a profile of you across sites. We see totals like page views and which pages are popular, not who you are.

What stays in your browser

A few conveniences are saved in your own browser's storage and are never sent to us:

• Your light or dark mode choice, and which sidebar sections you opened or closed.
• Checkmarks, typed answers and notes on the checklists. Use "Clear all" on a checklist to erase them, or clear your browser's site data.
• Which ad spaces you closed during your visit.

Site search runs in your browser. What you type into the search box is not sent to a server.

Newsletter

If you sign up for email updates, your email address is stored with our newsletter provider, Kit (kit.com), and used only to send Small Town Sysadmin updates. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and we never sell or share the list.

Ads

Ads on this site are served by Google AdSense and are always labeled "Advertisement." Google and its partners use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other websites.

You can turn off personalized ads in Google's Ad Settings, and learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies at aboutads.info.

Ads never decide what we write. No article is paid for, and every ad space can be closed.

Links to other sites

Articles link to vendor documentation and other sources. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Questions

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