Privacy

How Less Likely uses hosting, analytics, search, comments, browser storage, and information submitted through its contact form.

Author

Affiliation

Zad Rafi

Less Likely

This page describes the services currently included in Less Likely’s website. Although its articles are generated as static HTML, visiting a page can also load third-party scripts and embedded content. Static hosting does not mean that no information is processed.

Hosting

Netlify hosts this site and processes requests needed to deliver pages, run site functions, and handle forms. Requests can include an IP address, browser information, the requested URL, and request time. Netlify’s own privacy policy describes its processing.

Analytics and search

The site includes Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity. These services can process information about page visits and interactions, browser and device characteristics, and identifiers stored in the browser. Clarity supports interaction recording and heatmaps.

Search uses Algolia, and search analytics events are enabled. Search queries and interactions with results can therefore be sent to Algolia.

The providers describe their processing in their own policies:

• Google privacy policy
• Microsoft privacy statement
• Algolia privacy policy

Comments and embedded services

Article comments use Disqus. When loaded, Disqus can process technical request information, use cookies, and load services from its partners. Signing in or posting a comment sends information to Disqus; comments are public. See Disqus’s privacy policy and the site’s Comment Conduct Policy.

Pages may also load Altmetric badges, Webmention.io interactions, Zotero resources, external fonts, JavaScript libraries from CDNs, and embedded applications. These requests disclose technical connection information to the respective providers. The services loaded depend on the page and the features used; fonts and scripts are not all self-hosted.

Contact forms and accounts

The contact form sends the name, email address, subject, and message you supply through Netlify Forms so the author can respond. Do not include passwords, confidential research data, or sensitive personal information in a message.

Owner-only workspace and administration features use authentication and session cookies. Their connected services can process information needed to provide those features. Ordinary article reading does not require signing in.

Cookies and browser storage

The site uses browser storage for preferences such as the selected theme and whether its cookie notice has been dismissed. Authentication and third-party services may also use cookies or other identifiers.

The current cookie notice records dismissal; it does not provide a complete control for preventing analytics or other third-party scripts from loading. You can use browser settings or content blockers to limit these requests and clear stored data. Blocking scripts may disable search, comments, or embedded tools; the main article text remains available as HTML.

Questions and requests

Use the contact page or the channels on the About page for privacy questions or requests about information submitted to the author. For information held in a third-party account, the provider’s account controls and privacy policy describe its request process.

This page does not promise that all providers use the same retention period or that dismissing a notice changes their processing. It will be updated when the site’s services or data practices change.