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Privacy: what we collect and what we don't
HoldValue is a static education site. There is no account system, and there are no logins, forms or file uploads anywhere on it. This page is an honest account of what we use to understand how the site is visited, and one line that will not change: we never touch your sensitive account information.
What we never collect
This site does not collect, process or ask you to submit any sensitive account information (for example login credentials, verification details, asset-control data or identity documents). We never need it, and we never will. Any page that asks you for that kind of information is not one of ours, so please be on your guard.
How we understand visits
To learn which content readers find useful, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for anonymous visit statistics, with the following settings in place:
- Consent Mode v2, default "denied": before you click "accept", no analytics cookies are written and the related storage stays denied.
- IP anonymisation (anonymize_ip): your full IP is not used to identify you.
- Your choice (accept or decline) is stored in your browser's local storage (localStorage) so we do not have to ask you again next time.
There is a second statistics script, and it is not in our page files. The site is delivered through Cloudflare's network, and as Cloudflare serves each page it adds its Web Analytics script to the end. The script loads from static.cloudflareinsights.com, records page views and how quickly pages load, and sends that data back to /cdn-cgi/rum on this domain. Because Cloudflare adds it at the delivery stage, it does not go through the consent banner above and runs whether you accept or decline there. Cloudflare says this service does not collect or use visitors' personal data, and when we checked in our own browser it had written no cookies for this site and nothing to local storage.
What we look at is aggregate data (which pages get read, roughly which regions visits come from, how long people stay), not "who you are". We run no ads and sell no data.
Third-party requests
- Google Analytics: the statistics only load after you consent. See Google's privacy terms for details.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics: loads from static.cloudflareinsights.com and is not controlled by the consent banner; the section above explains it.
- Google Fonts: the page fonts load from Google's font service, which means requests are made to Google. If you would rather they were not, you can block this at the browser level.
Apart from that, this site has no comment section, no third-party tracking pixels and no ad networks.
Your choices
You can choose "decline" in the banner shown on your first visit, and GA4 will not be enabled. You can also reset your choice at any time by clearing your browser's local storage and cookies. Cloudflare's Web Analytics is outside that banner's reach; if you want it blocked as well, a content-blocking browser extension can block static.cloudflareinsights.com. Declining or blocking statistics does not affect your ability to read any of the content.