Last updated: 19 October 2026
Privacy pages tend to be long and a bit gloomy. Ours is short because there isn’t much to say: SnowyPaw keeps very little about anyone, never sells it, and never uses it for advertising. Here are the questions you might be wondering about.
At a glance
- Readers don’t need an account, and we don’t give them cookies.
- There are no analytics, ads, tracking pixels or third-party scripts.
- A comment saves the name and words you type. No email address.
- Contact messages are gone after 90 days; server logs after roughly two weeks.
“I’m only reading. What do you know about me?”
Only what lands in the ordinary server logs (more on those below). Reading doesn’t require an account, we don’t put a profile together about you, and we don’t follow you to other websites.
“I left a comment. What did you keep?”
Your name, the comment itself, and the time you sent it. There’s no email field to fill in. After a moderator approves the comment, it appears publicly below the post with the name you chose. If it’s never approved, it doesn’t hang around: the queue clears it after 30 days.
“I used the contact form. Now what?”
We keep your name, email address, chosen topic and message, and we use them for one thing: reading your note, answering it and sorting out what you asked for. Ninety days after it arrives, the message is erased.
“I’m a writer. What’s public?”
Whatever you put on your profile (your name, portrait, short bio and website link) appears on your blog next to the posts you publish.
“Why would you need my IP address?”
To keep spam floods out. For a short while the site holds your IP address in memory so it can cap how many comments or messages arrive from one place in a short time. Those addresses never get written into the site’s database.
“What’s in a server log?”
Just the usual things any web server notes down: IP address, which page was asked for, the browser’s user agent, and the time. We look at them to keep SnowyPaw safe and healthy, say, to notice an attack or a broken page. Each log lives for about two weeks and is then rotated away and erased.
“Any cookies?”
Not for you, unless you happen to run the site. The single cookie SnowyPaw sets is a session cookie for administrators, and it only appears once they sign in to look after things.
“Does anyone else see my visit?”
Two outside providers send a few files that our pages use:
- Google Fonts supplies our typefaces, from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com.
- Unsplash supplies the photos on our home page, from images.unsplash.com.
Fetching those files means your browser shares its IP address and browser details with that provider, the same as with any web request, and their own privacy policies cover what they do with it. We pass them nothing more. SnowyPaw itself runs over HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt certificates, so pages and form submissions travel encrypted.
Things we simply don’t do
- Sell or rent anybody’s information.
- Run ads or analytics.
- Hand your contact messages to writers or other visitors.
- Send newsletters or marketing email.
How long does each thing stay?
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Approved comments | Until a moderator removes them or someone asks us to |
| Comments still waiting for approval | Cleared after 30 days if never approved |
| Contact messages | Erased 90 days after they arrive |
| Server access logs | About two weeks, then rotated away |
| IP addresses used against spam | Memory only, never stored in the database |
“Can I see or remove what you have?”
Yes. Ask us to show you, fix, or erase anything about you, like a comment you posted or a message you sent. Go to the contact page, pick “My data and privacy”, and give us enough to find it (for a comment: the post link and the name you used). Writers can also ask us to take down individual posts or their entire blog.
“What if this changes?”
Then this page changes with it, and so does the date at the top.
Anything here still puzzling you? Ask us on the contact page and we’ll happily explain.