Your privacy matters — here is how we handle (or rather, don't handle) your data.
SwiftGrove was built on the principle that a hiking blog should be as lightweight and unintrusive as the trails we write about. We believe your visit to our site should be as private as a walk through an empty forest. Unlike most websites, we have no business model that depends on harvesting your attention or data. This privacy policy is short because our data practices are minimal.
We collect virtually no personal information. Specifically: We do NOT require user accounts or registration. We do NOT collect names, email addresses, or contact information through the website. We do NOT use contact forms that transmit data to our servers. We do NOT track your browsing behavior across pages. We do NOT use cookies for tracking, advertising, or analytics. We do NOT use browser fingerprinting techniques. We do NOT collect device information, IP addresses for profiling, or location data.
We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any third-party analytics or tracking service. Many websites embed these tools to monitor visitor behavior, but we have made a deliberate choice to avoid them entirely. This means we have no data about how many visitors we receive, which pages are most popular, or how long someone spends on the site — and we are fine with that. If you choose to contact us via email, that communication is between you and your email provider. We do not use email tracking pixels or read receipts.
This website does not set any cookies. There are no session cookies, tracking cookies, preference cookies, or any other type of cookie. When you visit swiftgrove.top, your browser will not receive a single cookie from us. We do not use cookie consent banners because there are no cookies to consent to. If third-party resources loaded via CDN (such as externally hosted images) set their own cookies, those are outside our control and governed by the respective CDN provider's privacy policy.
Our website loads images from Unsplash (images.unsplash.com), a third-party image hosting service. When your browser loads these images, it makes a request to Unsplash's servers, which may log standard HTTP information such as your IP address and browser type according to Unsplash's own privacy policy. We chose Unsplash because it is a reputable service used by millions of websites. We do not embed social media widgets, comment systems, advertising networks, or any other third-party services that could track you.
If you choose to contact us via email at [email protected] or [email protected], the information you share in your email (name, email address, message content) will be used solely to respond to your inquiry. We will not add your email address to any mailing list, share it with third parties, or use it for marketing purposes. Email communications are retained only as long as necessary to resolve the inquiry.
Because we collect virtually no data through the website itself, the attack surface for data breaches is minimal. Our site is purely static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — there are no databases, no server-side processing, and no user data stored on our servers. The hosting provider for swiftgrove.top may maintain standard server access logs as part of their infrastructure, which are outside our direct control but subject to the hosting provider's privacy practices.
Our website is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect information from children. Since we do not collect personal information from any visitors regardless of age, no special protections for children's data are needed beyond what is stated in this policy.
Because we do not collect personal data through this website, there is no data to access, correct, delete, or port. If you have sent us an email and wish to have that correspondence deleted from our records, please contact us at [email protected] and we will honor your request promptly.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Significant changes will be noted in the site's update log. We encourage you to review this page periodically, though given our minimal data practices, changes are unlikely to be substantial.
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected]. We take privacy seriously and will respond to all legitimate inquiries.
Last updated: April 2026