Ilpo Kärkkäinen

Privacy policy.

Short version: this site uses cookieless analytics to count visits, affiliate links to keep the lights on, and a newsletter you can subscribe to and unsubscribe from. I don’t sell your data. I don’t share it with anyone unless I have to.

Long version below.

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Analytics

What I track

This site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. It is privacy-friendly by design: no cookies, no third-party tracking, no fingerprinting, no cross-site profiles. It measures things like page paths, country, device type, and referrer, all in aggregate. Nothing identifies you as an individual visitor.

I do not sell this data, share it, or combine it with anything else.

If you would rather not appear in those counts at all, any standard content blocker will stop the beacon from loading. Nothing on the site breaks if you do.

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Affiliate links

How affiliate links work

Some links on this site, particularly to plugin and gear vendors, are affiliate links. If you click one and end up buying something, I get a small commission. It costs you nothing extra.

I only recommend tools I’ve actually used. Affiliate income keeps the site running. If you’d rather not use the link, search for the product directly. Either way is fine.

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Newsletter

Email list

If you subscribe to the newsletter, your email address is stored in MailerLite, who handles delivery. They store your address, the date you subscribed, and basic engagement data like which emails you opened or clicked. I use that to decide what to send next.

You can unsubscribe from any email with one click. That removes you from the list immediately. Or if you want your address deleted, email me.

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Forms

Contact and submission forms

The Contact and Send a project forms are hosted on Tally. When you submit a form, Tally stores what you sent and forwards it to me. Tally’s privacy terms apply on their end.

For mastering projects, audio files go through Samply, which handles the upload and storage. Same deal: Samply’s privacy terms cover the file itself; I see your upload through their interface.

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Hosting

Hosting and logs

The site runs on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may collect basic request logs (IP, user agent, requested URL) for security and performance, the way any web host does. I do not access raw logs unless I’m debugging something.

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Your rights

What you can ask for

If you’re in the EU or UK, you have rights under GDPR: to see what data I have on you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to object to processing, and to take it elsewhere. Same applies to anyone, regardless of where you’re based, even if the law in your country doesn’t spell it out.

To exercise any of these, email me at [email protected].

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Updates

Changes to this policy

If anything material changes, I update this page and revise the date at the top.