Privacy

What we collect, what we don't, and why. Last updated May 2, 2026.

Short version

We do not run third-party analytics or advertising trackers. The only data we keep is what's required to operate the /ask question-answering surface and to debug failures. No cookies are set by this site, and no data is sold to third parties.

What we log

When you submit a question through the /ask interface, we record the question text, the assistant's response, the routing path the request took, and a few operational fields needed for debugging and rate-limit enforcement:

A one-way hash of your IP address salted with a server-side secret. We never store the raw IP. The hash is used only to enforce a per-hour rate limit and to detect abuse.
Approximate geography (country, region, city, timezone) and network metadata (autonomous system number, user-agent string, Cloudflare Ray ID), provided by Cloudflare at the edge. We use this in aggregate to understand where shoppers are and to diagnose performance issues by datacenter.
The referrer path within thirdrowreality.com when /ask was reached via an in-site link (e.g. models/gls). We do not record cross-site referrers.
The query, response, retrieval scores, and any error or sanitization flags, so we can review answer quality and improve the system.

The static parts of the site (model pages, comparisons, guides, methodology, etc.) do not log anything to a database — Cloudflare serves them as static HTML.

What we don't collect

No third-party analytics (Google Analytics, Segment, Mixpanel, etc.). No tracking pixels.
No advertising trackers. The site has no ads.
No cookies are set by our application code. Cloudflare may set operational cookies (e.g. for bot detection) under its standard policies.
No accounts, no logins, no profiles, no personalization.
No email collection. There is no newsletter or list.

Third-party services we use

Cloudflare Pages hosts the site and provides the edge-level metadata described above.
Cloudflare Workers, Vectorize, KV, D1 power the /ask interface. Question logs are stored in Cloudflare D1 in the United States.
Anthropic Claude (Haiku) generates answers to user questions on the /ask surface. Question text is sent to Anthropic's API per their data-handling terms; no IP or personal identifier is transmitted alongside the query.

Retention

Question logs are retained indefinitely for diagnostic purposes, but they contain no direct identifier — only the salted IP hash, which cannot be reversed without the server secret. We may purge older entries periodically.

Contact

Questions about how data is handled? Reach out via the contact link in the site footer or open an issue in the project's public repository.