Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how SilentShadow.org (the "Site") collects, uses, and shares information when you visit the Site or contact us.

Information We Collect

Information you provide: If you contact us, you may provide your name, email address, and message content. Please do not send sensitive personal or medical information.
Log and device information: Our hosting and security providers may automatically record information such as IP address, browser type, device information, referring pages, and timestamps.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the Site, improve content, and support advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling cookies may affect functionality.

For details, see our Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-0Q0HEJ2MZV) to count visits and see which pages are read. It runs on every page of the Site except the Google site-verification file, and it sets its own cookies to tell one visit from another. We do not use it to identify you, and we do not upload contact details to it. Analytics storage is governed by the same regional consent defaults described below as advertising storage.

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on the Site. Advertising partners (including Google) may use cookies and similar identifiers to (a) serve and render ads, (b) measure performance and prevent fraud, (c) limit ad frequency, and (d) personalize ads depending on your settings and (where required) your consent.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use Google services, and how ad personalization works, in Google's own documentation. See also our Advertising Disclosure.

The Site sets Google consent defaults by region before any Google script runs. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland the four consent signals, analytics storage, ad storage, ad user data and ad personalization, all default to denied, and stay denied unless a consent tool grants them. Everywhere else they default to granted. Where consent is withheld, ads may be served non-personalized, limited or not at all, depending on Google's own configuration and policy.

We do not run a cookie banner of our own. Where a consent message is shown to you it comes from Google's privacy and messaging tools, which are configured in the AdSense account rather than in this Site's code.

We may share information with service providers who help us operate the Site (hosting, security, analytics, email delivery) and with advertising partners in order to display and measure ads. These third parties may process data under their own policies. The Site's own code loads two third-party scripts and no others: Google Analytics and Google AdSense. It stores nothing in your browser itself, and it has no login, no account and no saved preferences.

Data Retention

We retain contact messages and logs only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above, legal compliance, and security.

Your Choices

Cookies: manage them in your browser settings. You can delete cookies already set and block future ones; the Site has no login and no saved settings, so blocking them does not lock you out of anything.
Ad personalization: you may be able to manage ad personalization through Google's ad settings (if Google ads are served).
Messages: you may request access, correction, or deletion of messages you sent to us by emailing hello@silentshadow.org. We may need to verify your request.

Children's Privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Security

We use reasonable safeguards to protect information, but no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email: hello@silentshadow.org or visit our contact page.