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Privacy policy
This site has no accounts, no forms, no newsletter, and nothing to buy, so it has very little to collect. What it does collect is listed here in full.
Analytics
This site measures which pages are read, which government sources readers follow, and which tools are opened. It does so through the publisher’s own analytics service at cmddesk.com — not Google Analytics, not an advertising network, and not a third-party tracker of any kind. Each event carries the page path, the referring URL if your browser sends one, and the random identifier described below. It carries no name, no email address, and no content you have entered.
There are no advertising pixels, no social media embeds, no session recording, no heatmaps, and no cross-site tracking. This site sets no cookies at all.
Browser storage
| Key | Where | What it holds and why |
|---|---|---|
| cmddesk_aid | localStorage | A random identifier generated in your browser, so repeat visits are counted as one reader rather than several. It is not derived from you, your device, or your address, and it is not linked to any name or account. |
| cmddesk_src | sessionStorage (this tab only) | If you arrived by a link carrying campaign parameters (utm_source and similar) or from another site, the parameters and the referring site's hostname are kept for the duration of the tab. Cleared when the tab closes. |
Both entries can be removed at any time by clearing site data for this domain, with no loss of functionality. Blocking them entirely is fine too — nothing on this site depends on them.
Server logs
The web server records ordinary request logs: IP address, timestamp, requested path, response status, and user agent. These exist to keep the site running and to investigate abuse. They are not used to build a profile of a reader, are not sold or shared, and are retained only as long as they are operationally useful.
Third parties
Traffic to this site passes through Cloudflare, which provides DNS and content delivery and therefore sees requests in transit as any network provider does. Typefaces are self-hosted rather than loaded from a font CDN, precisely so that reading a page here does not generate a request to a third party. Outbound links to government websites are ordinary links: once you follow one, you are on that site and its own policies apply.
Correspondence
If you write to [email protected], we hold that message the way anyone holds email, and we use it to answer you and to correct the site. It is not added to a marketing list and it is not entered into a customer database.
Children
This is a reference site for adults handling their own records. It is not directed at children and it does not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this site ever begins collecting something it does not collect today, this page changes before that happens, and the change is recorded in the news archive under editorial updates.
Last updated 2026-08-01