We don’t want your data. We barely want ours.
Privacy
A site that rates freebies by the data they take had better be careful with yours.
- This site sets one cookie, and only if you pick your state or province: it remembers your pick. No tracking cookies, so there’s no cookie banner to click through.
- We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. It sets no cookies and doesn’t follow you to other sites. Its small script loads from Cloudflare’s servers; that’s the only thing loaded from another company. No ads, no other tracking scripts. Fonts and the mascot are served from this site.
- It never asks for your location. Until you pick a state or province, the home page guesses it from your general location, from what Cloudflare already sees on every visit, and nothing about that is stored. When you pick one, the pick is saved on your device as a cookie so the home page can show it next time. Changing it is just a link to that state’s page.
- Search runs in your browser against a list of listings downloaded from this site. What you type isn’t sent anywhere else.
- If you sign up for The Free Shit Drop, we keep your email address and the state or province you picked. It’s stored in Cloudflare and sent to Buttondown, which delivers the newsletter. It’s used for nothing else, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
- When you report a problem or send a tip, we store what you send, including your email if you add one, in Cloudflare so we can read it and fix listings. Nothing else is done with it, and we don’t store your IP address.
- Saved listings stay in your browser’s storage on this device. They are never sent to us.
- If you ask for a reminder, we keep your email address and the listing in Cloudflare, and Buttondown sends the one email. It’s used for nothing else.
- When you tap It’s still live, we count the tap. To stop one person from tapping a hundred times, we keep a scrambled code made from your connection for one day, then it’s deleted. We never store your IP address.
- To know whether people come back and which signup forms get used, we keep daily totals in Cloudflare: how many browsers visited for the first time, how many came back, and how many signups and reminder requests each kind of page got. Your browser remembers how many days it has visited, on your device only. No cookie is added, and nothing in those totals identifies you.
- Links to official sources take you to those organizations’ sites, which have their own privacy rules.