Tally & Make

What is counted

Short version: no cookies, no identifier, nothing that follows you off this site or back to it tomorrow. That is why there is no cookie banner — there is nothing to ask you about.

What is not collected

What is collected

When you use a tool, it records what happened so I can tell whether the tool is any good:

WhatWhy
Which tool, and which version of itTo tell the tools apart
Which buttons and fields you used, and the numbers you put inTo see which parts confuse people
Which help panels you openedThe best signal I have for where the tool is unclear
A random id for the visitKept in memory only. It is gone when you close the tab, and is never stored on your device
Your country, screen width, and the site you came fromTo know whether pages work on phones, and where people arrive from

The numbers you type are ordinary measurements — a chest size, a tension, a ball band. They are not linked to you, because there is nothing to link them to.

How visitors are counted without an identifier

To count how many people used a tool on a given day, the server makes a one-way fingerprint from your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, a secret, and today's date, then throws the original away. Only the scrambled result is stored.

Because the date is part of it, the result is different tomorrow. It cannot be used to recognise you on a later visit, and it cannot be turned back into your IP address. Your IP is never written down. This is the same approach used by privacy-focused analytics tools like Plausible and Fathom.

The email list

If you sign up, your address goes straight to Brevo, who run the mailing list. It is not stored on this site at all. Brevo sends you a confirmation email and you are only added if you click the link in it.

Every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Because your address only ever lives in Brevo, unsubscribing removes it completely — there is no second copy here to be forgotten about.

Your rights

UK GDPR gives you the right to see what is held about you, correct it, or have it deleted. For the email list, use the unsubscribe link, or ask me and I will remove you.

For the usage counting, there is nothing to retrieve or delete, and that is deliberate rather than evasive: the records are not connected to any person, including you, so there is no way to find "yours" among them. That is the point of collecting it this way.

The two things kept in your browser

If you click the light/dark button or the cm/inches switch, that choice is remembered on your device so the page looks the same next time. Neither is a cookie, neither is ever sent to the server, and neither is used to identify you. They only exist because you clicked them.

Where it is hosted

On Cloudflare. Brevo, who handle the email list, are based in the EU.

If anything here is unclear or you think it is wrong, the box at the bottom of any tool comes straight to me.