Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 23, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Offline And Onsite (“Offline And Onsite,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and protects information about the people who visit our site at offlineandonsite.com. Offline And Onsite is a U.S.-based personal blog operated from Spokane, Washington, and written for tradespeople, field workers, mobile-service providers, and busy families who work and parent on the move. Because our readers often use mobile data in a van, on a job site, or between school runs, we try to keep our data practices as lightweight and transparent as the guidance we publish.
By using offlineandonsite.com, you agree to the practices described below. If you do not agree with any part of this policy, please discontinue use of the site. We encourage you to read this page in full and to contact us if anything is unclear.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide Directly
Most of Offline And Onsite can be read without giving us anything at all. However, you may choose to share information with us in the following situations:
Newsletter or email updates — your email address and, optionally, a first name or the trade/industry you work in, so we can tailor what we send.
Contact forms and direct email — your name, email address, and the content of your message, including any details you volunteer about your devices, workflow, or situation.
Comments and community submissions — a display name, email address (not published), and the text of your comment or tip.
Surveys and reader research — answers you choose to give, which may include general information about your occupation, household, or the tools you use on the job.
Please do not send us sensitive personal information — client records, financial account numbers, licence or certification numbers, health information, or photographs of documents — through our contact channels. We do not need it and we do not want to hold it.
1.2 Information Collected Automatically
Like virtually every website, offlineandonsite.com records certain technical information automatically when your browser requests a page. This may include:
IP address (often truncated or anonymised before storage)
Browser type, version, and language settings
Operating system and device category (desktop, tablet, phone)
The page you requested, the referring page, and the date and time of the request
Approximate geographic region derived from IP address, usually no more precise than city or country
Screen size and connection type, which help us test whether pages load acceptably on poor rural signal
This information is used for security, troubleshooting, and understanding aggregate readership. It is not used to build a detailed personal profile of you.
1.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser. Offline And Onsite uses a limited number of them:
Strictly necessary cookies — these keep the site functioning, remember your cookie preferences, and protect forms against abuse. They cannot be switched off through our site.
Preference cookies — these remember choices such as dark mode, text size, or whether you have dismissed a notice, so you are not asked again on every visit.
Analytics cookies — these help us count visits and understand which articles are useful. Where required by law, these are only set after you give consent.
Advertising or affiliate cookies — if we run affiliate links or display advertising, a third party may set a cookie to attribute a referral or limit how often you see the same message.
You can delete or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. Blocking all cookies may cause parts of offlineandonsite.com to behave unpredictably, though the articles themselves will remain readable.
1.4 Analytics
We use web analytics to understand readership in aggregate: how many people read a guide, how they arrived, and whether they left immediately because the page was too slow. Wherever the option exists, we enable IP anonymisation, disable cross-site tracking features, and shorten data retention windows. Our interest is in patterns across thousands of readers, not in the behaviour of any individual.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information described above for the following purposes, and no others:
To deliver the pages, images, and files that make up Offline And Onsite.
To respond to questions, corrections, and feedback you send us.
To send newsletters or updates you have explicitly subscribed to.
To measure which topics genuinely help tradespeople and field workers, so we can write more of what is useful and less of what is not.
To diagnose errors, monitor performance, and keep the site available on weak mobile connections.
To detect and prevent spam, scraping, fraud, and attempted attacks on our infrastructure.
To comply with legal obligations and to establish or defend legal claims where necessary.
We do not sell your personal information. We do not trade reader lists. We do not use your data to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
3. Legal Bases for Processing
Where data protection law such as the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:
Consent — for newsletter subscriptions, non-essential cookies, and optional survey participation. You may withdraw consent at any time.
Legitimate interests — for site security, abuse prevention, aggregate analytics, and basic server logging, balanced against your rights and expectations.
Legal obligation — where we must retain or disclose information to comply with applicable law.
4. Sharing With Third Parties
We share information only where it is necessary to run offlineandonsite.com, and only with providers bound by contractual confidentiality and security obligations. These may include:
Hosting and content delivery providers, which process server logs in order to serve pages to you.
Email service providers, which store subscriber addresses and deliver newsletters.
Analytics providers, which process pseudonymised usage data.
Security and anti-spam services, which inspect request metadata to filter malicious traffic.
Affiliate networks, where a purchase made through a link on our site is attributed to us. We may learn that a sale occurred; we do not receive your payment details.
We may also disclose information where legally compelled by a valid court order, subpoena, or comparable lawful request, or where disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of our readers or the public. If Offline And Onsite were ever transferred to a new owner, reader data would pass to the successor under the terms of this policy, and we would give notice before any material change.
5. External Links
Our guides frequently link to tool vendors, app stores, manufacturers, government resources, and other publications. Once you follow a link away from offlineandonsite.com, that destination’s own privacy policy governs your data. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for third-party practices, and we encourage you to review their policies before submitting information to them.
6. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as it serves the purpose for which it was collected:
Newsletter subscriptions — until you unsubscribe, or after a prolonged period of inactivity, after which we remove dormant addresses.
Contact correspondence — typically up to twenty-four months, so we can follow up and track recurring issues, then deleted.
Server and security logs — generally a short rolling window measured in weeks, unless a log is retained longer to investigate a specific incident.
Analytics data — retained in aggregate form; individual-level records are shortened or discarded according to the minimum retention setting our provider allows.
Published comments — retained while the associated article remains online, or until you ask us to remove them.
7. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights:
Access — to ask what personal information we hold about you and obtain a copy.
Correction — to have inaccurate or incomplete information fixed.
Deletion — to ask us to erase your information where we have no overriding obligation to keep it.
Restriction and objection — to limit or object to certain processing, including processing based on legitimate interests.
Portability — to receive information you provided to us in a structured, machine-readable format.
Withdrawal of consent — at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.
Opt-out of sale or sharing — we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of, but we will honour any such request as confirmation of that position.
Non-discrimination — exercising your rights will never result in degraded access to Offline And Onsite.
7.1 California Residents
If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These may include the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to delete, the right to correct, the right to limit use of sensitive personal information, and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
To exercise a right, contact us using the details in the final section. We aim to respond within thirty days and may need to verify your identity before acting. Every newsletter also includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and most browsers offer a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal, which we honour where technically feasible. If you are unsatisfied with our response, you may lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
8. Children’s Privacy
Although a great deal of our writing is aimed at parents — screen-time routines, family location sharing, keeping kids reachable during long shifts — offlineandonsite.com is written for and directed at adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or under 16 where local law sets a higher threshold). If you believe a child has submitted information to us, please contact us and we will delete it promptly. Parents and guardians are encouraged to supervise their children’s online activity and to use the family-safety guidance we publish.
9. International Data Transfers
Our readers work across many countries, and our hosting, email, and analytics providers may process data in jurisdictions other than your own — including countries whose data protection laws differ from those where you live. Where personal information is transferred internationally, we rely on recognised safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions, or equivalent mechanisms, and we choose providers with credible security and privacy commitments. By using Offline And Onsite, you understand that such transfers may occur.
10. Security Measures
We take reasonable and proportionate steps to protect the information we hold, including:
Encryption of traffic between your browser and offlineandonsite.com using HTTPS/TLS.
Restricting administrative access to the smallest possible number of people, protected by strong, unique credentials and multi-factor authentication.
Applying software and dependency updates promptly.
Collecting the minimum data necessary — the most reliable protection is not holding information in the first place.
Regular backups and monitoring for unusual activity.
No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach occurs that is likely to result in a risk to your rights, we will notify affected individuals and the relevant authorities as required by applicable law.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as our tools, providers, or legal obligations change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date. Material changes — for example, a new category of data collection — will be highlighted on the site and, where you are a subscriber and the law requires it, communicated by email. Continued use of Offline And Onsite after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
12. Contact Us
Questions, corrections, data requests, or concerns about how Offline And Onsite handles your information are genuinely welcome. You can reach us through the contact page at offlineandonsite.com/contact, or by writing to [email protected] or the privacy contact address published there. Please include enough detail for us to understand your request — for example, the email address you subscribed with, or the page a comment appeared on — so we can act on it quickly.
This Privacy Policy is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. If you require advice about your own obligations or rights, please consult a qualified professional in your jurisdiction.