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Air in the House

What This Site Collects

Air in the House collects almost nothing: no accounts, forms, cookies, ad trackers or analytics scripts, just the standard server logs every web host keeps and what YouTube or Google Fonts see.

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  1. Nothing to sign up for

    There is nothing to sign up for on Air in the House. The site has no accounts, no log-ins, no forms, no comment sections and no newsletter, so it never asks for your name, address or any other details.

    The site sets no cookies of its own. It runs no advertising trackers and no analytics scripts, so there is no record of which pages you read, how long you stayed or where you came from beyond the basic server logs described below.

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  2. Videos

    Videos are click-to-load. Until you press play, all that loads is a still thumbnail picture from YouTube's image server (i.ytimg.com); no video player and no YouTube script runs on the page.

    When you press play, the video loads from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed domain, and plays under YouTube's own privacy terms. From that moment YouTube, not this site, decides what it collects. If you'd rather it didn't see you at all, don't press play; the page reads the same either way.

    Fetching the thumbnail is an ordinary web request, so YouTube's image server sees your IP address, as any server you load a picture from would.

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  3. Fonts and images

    The typefaces load from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). Like any web request, that lets Google see your IP address and basic browser details when the font files are fetched. This site sends Google nothing else.

    Apart from the video thumbnails above, all photographs, pictures and charts are served from this site itself, not from an outside image service. Who made each photograph, and which pictures were made with an image model, is listed on image credits.

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  4. Server logs

    The company that hosts this site keeps standard server logs, as web hosts do. A log line records the IP address that asked for a page, which page or file was requested, the time, and the browser's own description of itself (its user agent).

    Those logs are kept for security and to keep the site running, for example to spot attacks or broken links. Air in the House doesn't use them to profile readers and doesn't sell them.

    Links to other websites, including government sources and the stores described on who owns this site, take you to sites with their own privacy terms. For how the pages themselves are written, see who writes this site, or go back to the home page.