Privacy policy
This policy explains what information is processed when you use the Personal finance Q&A section of buymewhiskey.com: the Money Q&A pages and the pages under /q/, /topic/, /topics/ and /calculators/. This section is information-only. It has no accounts, sign-ups, comments or newsletter. The only personal details it asks for are the email address and question you choose to send through the "Ask us a question" form.
What we collect
- Calculators: they run entirely in your browser. The numbers you type are not sent to us or stored.
- Server logs: our host, Cloudflare, processes technical data such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested, in order to deliver and secure the site.
- Email: if you email us, we use your message and address only to reply.
- "Ask us a question" form: see the next section.
"Ask us a question" form
If you use the form, we receive your email address, your question, the country you choose and the address of the page you asked from. We use this only to research your question and email you a reply, and to deal with any follow-up about it. We do not add you to a mailing list.
Submissions are stored in our hosting provider's (Cloudflare's) storage, which Cloudflare runs on our behalf. We do not sell this information or share it with anyone else, except where the law requires it. We keep a submission only as long as we need it to reply and handle follow-up, then delete it.
To stop spam, the form checks how many questions come from the same connection. For this we keep a one-way scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, not the address itself, for up to two hours. The form sets no cookies. You must tick the consent box before sending. If the form cannot send, it offers to open your own email app instead, and the email section above then applies.
Cookies, analytics and advertising
At the moment this section sets no cookies of its own and shows no advertising. buymewhiskey.com uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views and measures page speed without cookies and without tracking you across other websites. The question search on the Money Q&A hub runs only in your browser; what you type there is not sent to us or stored. If we enable advertising, such as Google AdSense, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites. Where the law requires it, for example in the UK and EEA, we will ask for your consent before any non-essential cookies are set. Before ads or any other analytics are switched on, we will update this page to describe the cookies and partners involved and change the effective date. You can opt out of personalised Google advertising at Google Ads Settings.
Sharing and retention
We do not sell personal information. Emails and form questions you send are kept only as long as needed to deal with your message, and are not shared except where the law requires it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete your personal data and to object to its processing. To ask us to delete a question you sent, or for any other privacy request, contact fasteststocknews@gmail.com. UK residents can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
Children
The site is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Changes
We will update this page and its effective date if our practices change.