Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 1, 2026.

Status note, September 2026 — please read this first, because it changes how the rest of the page applies. This site is new and is not yet running advertising or analytics. No advertising cookies, no analytics cookies and no consent platform are loaded today. Measured on September 1, 2026, this site sets no cookies at all — requesting any page here returns none, essential ones included, because there is not yet a privacy choice to store or a session to keep. All three categories in the table below are things that begin when advertising and analytics are switched on. The advertising, analytics and consent sections below describe what will happen when those services are switched on, and they are published in advance so the terms are visible before anything changes rather than after. This note is dated, and it comes down on the day advertising begins.

This policy explains what information Still Worth Fixing collects when you visit, what our advertising and analytics partners collect, and what you can do about it.

It is written to describe what this site actually does. Where something is done by a third party rather than by us — which is true of most of the data collection on this site — it says so and names them.

Who runs this site

Still Worth Fixing (stillworthfixing.com) is published by WoozKa Holdings LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company, based in the United States.

For any privacy question or request: hello@stillworthfixing.com.

The short version

  • You do not need an account, and we do not sell products, so we hold very little about you directly.
  • Once advertising and analytics are switched on, the information that is collected about you here will be collected mostly by Google, for advertising and analytics, using cookies and similar technologies. Neither is running yet — see the status note above.
  • Personalized advertising can be turned off, and if you are in the UK or EEA you will be asked before it is turned on at all.
  • If you email us, we have your email address, because that is how email works.

What we collect directly

Contact messages. If you email us — or use the contact form, once it is available — we receive whatever you send — typically your name, your email address, and your message. The form, when it is built, will also record the page you were on (so a correction can be traced to the figure it is about) and the fact that you ticked the consent box. It asks for nothing else, and it accepts no file attachments. It is used to reply to you and to act on corrections. We keep correspondence while it is useful and delete it when it is not. We do not add you to a mailing list; there isn’t one.

Server logs. Like effectively every website, our host records standard technical information when a page is requested: IP address, browser and device type, the page requested, referring page, and timestamp. These are used for security, abuse prevention, and diagnosing faults. The site is hosted by Bluehost, and it is Bluehost that receives and logs those requests. Cloudflare provides this domain’s DNS only. It answers the address lookup your browser makes before the request is sent, and it does not sit in front of the site today, so it does not receive or log the pages you read — see Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Nothing sensitive, ever. This site has no reason to ask for financial details, government identifiers, or health information, and never will. If a page on this site appears to be asking you for any of those, it has been compromised — please tell us.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Three kinds are relevant to this site, and as of September 1, 2026 none of the three is in use — which is why every row below carries the same note:

Purpose Set by What it is for
EssentialThis siteSecurity, keeping the site available, and remembering your privacy choices — a “no” to advertising cookies has to be stored somewhere to be honored on the next page you open. Not in use yet: with no consent platform loaded, there is no choice to remember.
AnalyticsGoogle AnalyticsAggregate measurement — how many people read a page, which pages they arrive from. Not in use yet.
AdvertisingGoogle and its advertising partnersServing ads, limiting how often you see the same one, and measuring whether ads worked. Not in use yet.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Today that changes nothing here, because none are set. Once the categories above are in use, blocking advertising cookies will not break the site — you will simply see less relevant ads; blocking the essential ones would stop your privacy choices from being remembered from one page to the next.

Advertising

This site is intended to be supported by display advertising, principally Google AdSense. That is how it is meant to be paid for, and it is the reason most of the data collection described on this page will happen. No advertising is running here today — see the status note at the top. The disclosures below are published in advance, and they describe what applies from the day it is switched on.

Google requires us to tell you the following, and it is accurate:

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (now presented as My Ad Center).
  • Alternatively, you can opt out of personalized advertising from many participating vendors at www.aboutads.info/choices, or, in Europe, at Your Online Choices.

How Google handles data from sites that use its services is described in Google’s own policy on partner sites and its general Privacy Policy.

Opting out of personalized advertising does not remove advertising. You will still see ads; they will be chosen without using your browsing history.

One thing worth stating plainly, because many privacy policies obscure it. Serving personalized ads involves sharing online identifiers — such as cookie IDs, device identifiers and IP address — with advertising partners. Several US state privacy laws define that kind of sharing as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, even though no money changes hands for your data and we receive none. Rather than claim we “never sell your data,” which would depend on a narrow reading of those words, we would rather tell you what happens and how to stop it: use the opt-out links above, or the consent controls described below.

If you are in the UK or the EEA

Google requires publishers serving personalized ads to users in the EEA and UK to use a Google-certified consent management platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, a requirement in force since January 16, 2024. This site will use one from the day personalized advertising is enabled here. Advertising is not running yet, so no consent platform is loaded today.

In practice, once advertising is enabled: you will be asked for consent before any advertising or analytics cookie is set, you can decline, and you can change your mind later through the same consent controls (usually a link or icon in the site footer). Declining leaves you with non-personalized advertising rather than no site.

Your rights. Under the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR you can ask us to confirm what personal data we hold about you, to give you a copy, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to withdraw consent at any time. Where we rely on consent — which is the basis for advertising and analytics cookies — withdrawing it is as easy as giving it.

Some of these requests we can act on directly. Others concern data held by Google rather than by us, in which case we will tell you so and point you to the right controls, rather than pretend to a power we do not have.

You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you are in California or another US state with a privacy law

Laws including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) give residents rights to know what personal information is collected, to have it deleted, to correct it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.

A candid note on whether that law applies to us. The CCPA reaches a business meeting any one of three thresholds: more than $25 million in annual gross revenue; or buying, selling or sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households a year; or deriving 50% or more of its annual revenue from selling or sharing personal information.

The first two are tests of size, and a site this small is nowhere near either. The third is not a test of size at all — it is a test of where the money comes from. This site is intended to be funded entirely by display advertising — none is running yet — and the section above says plainly that serving personalized ads involves the kind of sharing those laws mean. Whether that makes a small ad-supported blog a “business” under the statute is genuinely arguable, and it is not a question we are going to settle in our own favor on our own privacy policy.

So we are not going to tell you the law does not apply to us. We will honor these requests from any visitor, in any state, whether or not the law requires it of us — which makes the question moot from where you are standing. Email hello@stillworthfixing.com.

To opt out of personalized advertising, the fastest route is the opt-out links in the Advertising section above. Where your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, the consent tooling will treat it as an opt-out request once that tooling is in place. Until advertising begins there is nothing to opt out of.

Analytics

Google Analytics is not running on this site yet — see the status note at the top. When it is, it will be used to understand which pages are read and which are not. It tells us that a page was read 400 times last week; it does not tell us who you are, and we do not attempt to identify individual visitors.

You can opt out of Google Analytics across all sites with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Links to other sites

This site links out constantly and deliberately — to manufacturer support pages, government datasets, and published cost guides — because showing where a figure came from is the entire point of the site. Those sites have their own privacy policies and we have no control over them. A link is not an endorsement of anyone’s data practices.

Children

This site is intended for adults making decisions about household appliances. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, email us and we will delete it.

Security, and its limits

Every page here is served over HTTPS, every internal link, and every address the site publishes for itself, is an https:// one, and the platform is kept current — WordPress 7.1 as of September 2026. One gap, stated because you can see it in your own address bar. Our host does not yet force the switch: type or follow a bare http:// link to any page below the homepage and it is served unencrypted rather than redirected to the secure version. The homepage redirects; the pages under it do not. Until that hosting setting is changed, check for the padlock before you send us anything. Beyond that we limit the data we hold directly, so there is little to lose. But no website can promise perfect security, and we are not going to be the first to claim it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially — a new advertising partner, a new category of data — the “last updated” date above changes and the change is described here rather than made quietly. Continued use of the site after a change means the updated policy applies.

September 1, 2026. Two corrections, both found by measuring this site rather than by re-reading this page. The cookie section said essential cookies were being set and that the site could not function without them; a request for every published page returns no cookies at all, so it now says that instead. And the security section said we use HTTPS across the site; the homepage does redirect an insecure request, but the pages under it are served over plain http:// if that is how they are asked for, so that section now says so and tells you what to look for.

Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy: hello@stillworthfixing.com.

We aim to respond within a few days, and within any timeframe the applicable law requires.