Privacy at Pettigrew Lab

What this covers

This is about pettigrewlab.com, the web site, run by Pettigrew Lab LLC.

Our apps have their own policies, because an app can do things a web page can’t. Each one is linked from that app’s page and from its store listing.

What we collect

Nothing you type, because there’s nothing to type. No account, no sign-in, no contact form.

If you email us, then we have your email address and whatever you wrote. We use it to write back. It doesn’t go on a list.

How page views get counted

Our host, Vercel, counts visits for us. It doesn’t use cookies and it doesn’t build a profile. What we see is the shape of the traffic: which pages people opened, roughly what country they were in, phone or desktop.

We can’t tell who you are from it, and there’s nothing in it to sell.

Vercel’s privacy policy

Things saved in your browser

A few pages keep something small in your browser’s own storage: your streak on the putting timer, a high score in the arcade game on Joel’s resume, which story you last saw on a page that rotates them.

That stays on your device. We can’t read it, and clearing your browser data wipes it.

Ads, and only on one page

One page on this site shows ads: What My Phone Knows. The point of that page is to show what a browser hands over to serve an ad, so it shows you a real one instead of describing it.

Google and its partners serve those ads. Google uses cookies and what your browser sends, including your IP address, to choose an ad and to measure whether it worked. That can include ads chosen from your past browsing, which is what personalized advertising means. We never see who you are: the ad arrives, and the reason it was picked stays with Google.

Nothing you do on that page is sent to us. The page reads a few things from your browser to show you what an ad request carries, and it forgets them the moment you close the tab.

How Google uses information from sites that use its services

Google My Ad Center, where you can change or turn off the interests Google holds

If you’d rather not have personalized ads

The Ads section of that page will load the same slot without your history, from a link on the page itself. You still get an ad, chosen from the page and your rough location rather than your past.

My Ad Center, linked above, turns personalization off across everything Google shows you, not only here.

If you’re in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland

You get a consent message before any personalized ad loads. It’s Google’s, certified for the job, and it names the companies asking.

Saying no is a real answer, not a dark pattern with a hidden cost. The page works either way. Your answer is remembered in your browser, so clearing your site data makes it ask again.

California and other US states

We don’t sell your personal information, and we never have.

Some state privacy laws treat personalized advertising itself as “sharing,” whoever is doing it. That’s a fair reading, and it’s why the non-personalized version of the page and the Google controls above are one click from the ads rather than buried here.

If you emailed us and want that deleted, ask and it’s done.

Children

This site is written for adults, including the pages about apps made for kids. We don’t knowingly collect anything from a child.

If this changes

The date at the top changes with it, and anything new gets its own line instead of being folded into a paragraph you’ve already read.

Questions

Email pettigrewlabllc@gmail.com.