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Privacy policy

Last updated: October 16, 2026

Who we are

Delidded (delidded.com) is a hobbyist site about CPU mods, cooling, BIOS work and keeping older PCs useful. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean the people who run and write the site. If you have a question about your information, write to bench@delidded.com or use the contact page.

This policy is written for readers in the United States, in plain English. It describes what the site actually does today, and it changes when the site does.

What we collect

Reading the site

You do not need an account to read Delidded, and there is no reader sign-up of any kind. We run no analytics service and no advertising trackers of our own: no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting scripts, no third-party visitor statistics. The site's fonts are served from our own server, so opening a page does not contact a font service.

Server logs

Like nearly every website, our server keeps standard logs of the requests it receives. A log line usually holds the IP address the request came from, the date and time, the page or file requested, the referring page if your browser sends one, and your browser's user agent string. We use these logs to keep the site running, find errors and spot abuse such as floods of automated requests. They are kept for a short period and then deleted, and we do not use them to build profiles of readers.

To slow down bots, parts of the site keep short-lived counters per address in the server's memory (for example, a limit on how many contact messages one address can send in a minute). These counters are never written to disk and disappear on their own.

The staff dashboard has a sign-in page. Attempts to sign in there are recorded with the IP address so that repeated password guessing can be blocked, and those records are cleared out after about a week. Readers never need that page.

The contact form and email

The contact form asks for your name (optional), your email address and your message. We store those three things in our database until we have answered you and no longer need the message, and then we delete it. We use your email address only to reply. It never goes on a mailing list and we do not pass it to anyone. Mail you send directly to bench@delidded.com is handled the same way.

Calculators and the HTML editor

The four Modkit calculators and the online HTML editor run entirely in your browser. The numbers and code you type stay on your device and are not sent to us.

Affiliate links and partner cookies

Delidded earns money through two affiliate programs: Amazon Associates and CJ Affiliate. Some pages carry links to Amazon or to shops in the CJ network, and some may show banners supplied through CJ.

When you click one of these partner links, you leave Delidded. Amazon, or CJ and the merchant, may then set cookies or use similar technology in your browser so they can credit the referral to us and record a qualifying purchase. That happens on their side, under their privacy policies. The reports we receive show which links earned a commission; they do not tell us your name, address or payment details.

Banners from CJ load their images from CJ's servers. Loading one sends a normal web request to CJ, which can log details such as your IP address and browser, and CJ may read or set a cookie at that moment.

You can read their policies here:

Our cookie policy lists these cookies in a short table and explains how to block them.

How we count partner clicks

We want to know which kinds of links readers find useful, without watching anyone. So when you click a partner link, your browser sends our server a small note naming two things: where the link sat on the page (for example, inline in an article or in a sidebar) and which network it belongs to (Amazon or CJ). The server adds one to that day's total for that combination. The link itself goes straight to the shop.

We do not store your IP address, set a cookie or keep any identifier for this. What ends up in our database is a table of daily totals (a date, a link position, a network and a number) and nothing that could point back to you.

Content delivery and security through Cloudflare

Delidded is delivered through Cloudflare, which sits between your browser and our server. Cloudflare speeds up delivery and protects the site from attacks and abusive traffic. To do that it processes the IP address and request details of every visit, and it may set a short-lived security cookie when it needs to check that traffic is coming from a real browser. Cloudflare handles that data under its own policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/.

Children

Delidded is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us information through the contact form or by email, write to bench@delidded.com and we will delete it.

Your privacy rights in US states

California and a number of other states give their residents rights over personal information that businesses hold about them. Those rights generally include asking what personal information a business has collected, asking for it to be corrected or deleted, and opting out of its sale or of sharing for targeted advertising.

Whether or not a given state law applies to a site our size, we will honor these requests from any reader. In practice the only personal information we might hold about you is a contact message and the email address it came from. To ask what we have, or to have it deleted, write to bench@delidded.com. We may ask you to confirm the request from the same address, so we do not delete or disclose someone else's message by mistake. Asking will not change how the site works for you.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Keeping data to a minimum

The information we keep is small on purpose: contact messages until they are answered, brief server logs, sign-in records for the staff page, and anonymous daily click totals. No method of storing data is perfectly secure, but keeping very little is the best protection we can offer.

Changes to this policy

If the site starts doing something new with information, such as adding a feature that stores data, we will update this page first and change the "Last updated" date at the top.

Contact

Questions or requests about this policy go to bench@delidded.com, or through the contact page.