Last updated: 3 August 2026
This policy explains what light.style collects when you visit, what it does not collect, and how to reach us about it. We have tried to keep it short and specific rather than long and generic.
Who we are
light.style is an independently run website publishing guides and buying advice about home and outdoor lighting. Our website address is https://light.style. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any lighting manufacturer or retailer.
Analytics — and why there is no cookie banner
We measure traffic with a self-hosted, cookieless analytics tool that runs on our own server. It records aggregate information such as the page requested, the approximate country, the referring site and the type of device. It does not set cookies, does not create a persistent identifier that follows you across websites, and does not send your data to a third-party analytics provider.
Because of this, there is nothing for you to consent to and no cookie banner to dismiss. We do not use Google Analytics, and we do not run advertising networks on this site.
Affiliate links
Some articles link to products on Amazon.com. Where those links are commercial, they are marked in the page code as rel="sponsored". If you buy something after following one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Amazon will process that visit under its own privacy policy, which we do not control. See our Affiliate Disclosure for the full explanation.
Server logs
Like practically every website, our hosting provider records standard access logs, which include IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting. These are kept for a limited period and are not used to build a profile of you.
Comments and accounts
Comments are closed across the site, and there is no way for visitors to register an account. We therefore hold no user accounts, no comment data and no mailing list. We do not run a newsletter and do not collect email addresses from visitors.
Embedded content from other sites
Articles may embed content such as images or videos hosted elsewhere. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website, and those sites may collect data about you under their own policies.
Your rights
Since we do not maintain accounts, mailing lists or personal profiles, there is normally no personal data of yours for us to export or delete. If you believe we hold information about you and want to ask about access, correction or deletion, write to us and we will respond.
Children
This site is intended for a general adult audience. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to this policy
If we change how the site handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy: team@light.style, or via our contact page.
Analytics with Dackel Analytics
This website measures its reach with Dackel Analytics, an analytics plugin that runs on this website’s own server. It sets no cookies, uses neither local storage nor session storage and does not otherwise store anything on your device. When a page loads, a measurement script sends the technical details listed below from your browser to this website’s server.
What is processed
- The page you requested (address and title). Query parameters that may carry sensitive values, such as e-mail addresses or access codes, are removed before storage.
- The page you came from (referrer), also without such parameters.
- Browser, operating system and device type, derived from the user agent, plus browser language, platform and the number of touch points of the screen.
- A shortened part of your IP address: for IPv4 the last number is set to 0, for IPv6 the lower 80 bits are set to 0. The full IP address is not stored in the visit data.
- Your approximate country, sometimes region or city, looked up from the IP address in a database (DB-IP Lite) held on this website’s server.
- Time spent on each page and scroll depth.
- Clicks on links to other websites and on file downloads, with the destination address.
- Clicks on links within this website, with source and destination path, link location (such as content or navigation), sanitised link text and time. Query parameters and fragments are not stored for this.
- Loading and responsiveness times of the page (Core Web Vitals).
- Search terms entered in this website’s search. Patterns such as e-mail addresses, telephone or account numbers are removed first.
- Campaign parameters (UTM) and advertising click IDs, where present in the address.
- A visitor identifier, see the next section.
How the visitor identifier is formed
To count visits, the plugin derives a hash value (HMAC-SHA-256) from the shortened IP address, the browser and operating system family and a secret random value. The random value is replaced every day and the old one is overwritten, so the same combination only produces the same identifier on the same day and visits on different days cannot be linked through it. People on the same network with the same browser and operating system count as one visitor on a given day.
To protect against overload, the plugin counts requests per IP address and keeps a hash of the full IP address (HMAC with the daily changing random value) in a cache for at most two minutes. For the location lookup it stores a hash of the full IP address (HMAC with the daily random value) together with the location found and deletes these entries during the daily cleanup once they are older than one day.
Where the data is stored, and for how long
The data is held in this website’s own database; no external analytics service is involved. Page views, sessions, events, link clicks, loading and responsiveness times, clicks on partner links, goals reached and visitor identifiers are deleted automatically after 365 days.
Opt-out signals
If your browser sends the DNT (Do Not Track) header or a Global Privacy Control signal, the visit is not recorded, neither in the browser nor on the server.
Your California privacy rights (CCPA/CPRA)
The categories of information collected here are identifiers (a shortened network address and a daily visitor identifier), internet or other electronic network activity information (pages viewed, referring page, time on page) and coarse geolocation (country, sometimes region or city). This information is collected for analytics purposes only.
We do not sell this information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. It is not disclosed to third parties for their own purposes and is not used for profiling or automated decision-making.
We honour the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal: if your browser or extension sends it, no data is collected. The same applies to the Do Not Track header.
You may request access to, or deletion of, information relating to you. The stored records are not linked to a name, account or e-mail address, so they generally cannot be attributed to the person making a request, and individual records then cannot be provided or deleted. Enabling Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control in your browser prevents collection. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy right.
Residents of other US states with comparable privacy laws have equivalent rights, which we apply in the same way.
Other data flows
With the current settings of this website:
- Once a month the server downloads an updated location database from DB-IP. No visit data is sent.
Administrator activity log
Changes made by logged-in administrators to the plugin (settings, activation, goals, funnels, access keys) are recorded with time, user login and IP address, on the basis of legitimate interests in keeping administrative changes traceable. These records are deleted automatically after 90 days.