Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

This site collects almost nothing, and this page describes what "almost" means.

What this site collects

homekit.reviews is a static site with no accounts and no comments. It stores nothing about you on its own servers, because it has none to store it on. The pages are plain files. What follows is everything that touches your data: two third-party scripts, the web host's logs, and one form that deliberately collects nothing.

The suggestion form

The testing status page has a form for suggesting a device to test. It submits nothing to this site. Filling it in opens your own email app with the product link and your note already written, and nothing is sent until you press send yourself. Your address reaches me the same way any email would, and I keep the message in my mailbox until the suggestion is dealt with. There is no database behind it, no third-party form processor, and no list you are added to.

A newsletter, if one starts

There is no newsletter today, and no way to subscribe to one. If that changes, these are the terms it will run on, written down in advance so they are not decided later in my own favour:

• Subscribing will be an explicit opt-in. No pre-ticked box, and no adding an address that reached me for some other reason, whether a suggestion, a correction, or a privacy request, to a mailing list.
• The only thing required will be an email address. A name will be optional and anything else unnecessary.
• Every message will carry a working one-click unsubscribe, and unsubscribing will remove the address rather than mark it inactive.
• The address will be used to send the newsletter and nothing else. It will never be sold, rented, shared for anyone else's marketing, or used to build an advertising profile.
• Delivery needs a provider, which means that provider processes the address as well. This page will name it before the first message goes out, and readers in the EU, EEA, the UK, and Switzerland will be told where the data is held.
• Opening a message may be measurable, depending on the provider. If open or click tracking is switched on, this page will say so plainly rather than leaving it implied.

Until all of that is filled in with a real provider's name, treat the absence of a signup form as the accurate description: there is no list.

Microsoft Clarity

This site uses Microsoft Clarity to see how pages are used: where people scroll, what they click, and which parts of a review get read. Clarity records a replay of the visit and builds heatmaps from it, and it sets its own cookies (_clck and _clsk) to tell one visit from another.

Clarity masks text input by default, and this site has no forms to type into, so nothing you enter is captured. Microsoft processes the data as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-MK1VP4QHF7) to count visits and see which pages people arrive on. It stores its own identifier so it can tell a returning browser from a new one, and it records the usual page-level details: the page you asked for, the referrer, approximate location from your IP address, and your device and browser type.

IP addresses are not stored in the reports. Google processes the data as described in the Google Privacy Policy, and Google's own opt-out browser add-on blocks it everywhere, not just here.

There is no advertising integration on this site: no Google Ads linking, no remarketing audiences, and no Google Signals. The data is used to decide what to write about next.

Impact (affiliate attribution)

This site runs Impact's tracking tag, which is how the retailer programs I belong to know a purchase started here. It does two things: it rewrites retailer links on the page so they carry my publisher ID, and it records that the page was viewed. To recognize the same browser between the click and the purchase it stores an identifier of its own.

Impact receives the page you were on and the link you clicked, and processes it as described in the Impact privacy policy. Blocking it does not break any link on this site. The link still goes to the retailer; it just stops crediting me.

Where the consent banner applies

If your browser is set in a timezone in the EU, EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, none of Clarity, Google Analytics or Impact loads, and nothing is stored, until you accept in the banner at the bottom of the page. Declining writes no cookie. Everywhere else both load on arrival, which is what the rest of this page describes.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are honored everywhere: with either set, none of the three tags load regardless of region, and no banner appears. Tracking protection or an ad blocker will also stop them. The one answer covers all three; there is no way to accept one and refuse another.

You can change your answer at any time: Reset my analytics choice

The web host (InMotion Hosting) keeps standard server logs: IP address, pages requested, browser type, and time of request. I use them only to keep the site running and diagnose problems, and they are governed by InMotion's own retention practices.

Affiliate links

Product links on this site are affiliate links (see the affiliate disclosure). When you click one, you leave this site, and the retailer (for example Amazon or Walmart) may set its own cookies to attribute the purchase. Those cookies belong to the retailer and are governed by the retailer's privacy policy, not this one. The one identifier set on this side of the click is Impact's, described above.

Embedded video

A few posts embed YouTube videos. Playing one loads content from YouTube, which may set cookies under Google's privacy policy. Not playing it loads nothing.

Your rights (GDPR / CCPA)

Because this site holds no personal data about you, there is usually nothing to access, correct, or delete. If you believe otherwise, or have any question about this policy, contact me and I will answer directly.

Changes

If the site ever adds analytics, a newsletter, or anything else that touches personal data, this page will say so before it happens.