Privacy and cookies

Little Collie takes your privacy as seriously as our own.

Last updated 24 September 2026.

Scope. This notice is about visitors to littlecollie.com. Shepherd is covered by its own Shepherd Privacy Policy.

At a glance.

  • There is nothing to type into here: no accounts, no sign-in, no forms.
  • No cookies of our own. Cloudflare's security layer may set two, both strictly necessary; they are listed under Cookies.
  • Visits are counted without a cookie and without keeping your IP address.
  • No advertising, no profiling, no cross-site tracking, and the fonts come from this site.

Who is responsible

The controller for this site is Little Collie LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Oregon, United States. Its address for service and published contact addresses are on the contact page; for anything about data, write to [email protected].

What this site collects

Nothing you type, because there is nothing to type into. This site has no accounts, no sign-in, no forms, no search, no comments and no newsletter. Every page is a flat document served the same way to everybody.

What is unavoidably processed is what any web server sees when a browser asks it for a page: your IP address, the page requested, the time, your user agent and the referring page, if your browser sends one.

Who processes it, and why

Cloudflare, Inc.
CDN and security in front of this site. Cloudflare terminates the connection, serves cached pages, and filters malicious traffic. It sees the request data above. It also counts page visits for us with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it sets no cookie, writes nothing to your browser's storage, does not fingerprint your device and does not keep your IP address. What we see is how many visits each page had and roughly where from, in aggregate — nothing about you individually. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK extension for data it processes in the United States.
Render Services, Inc.
Static hosting of the origin files. Render sees only the requests Cloudflare cannot answer from its cache.

That is the whole list. The typefaces on these pages are served from this site, so no request for a font goes to anybody else.

The lawful basis for all of this is legitimate interest in serving the site, keeping it available and knowing whether anybody reads it. There is no profiling, no advertising, no analytics cookie and no cross-site tracking.

How long it is kept

Little Collie keeps no visitor logs of its own for this site. Access and security logs held by Cloudflare and Render are retained under those providers' own schedules and are used only for operating and defending the site.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies of its own. There is no advertising pixel, no embedded video and no social widget. The one script that runs is Cloudflare's analytics beacon, added by Cloudflare rather than by these pages, and it stores nothing on your device — which is why there is nothing to consent to, and why you are not being asked.

The security layer in front of the site may set the following, and only these:

Cookies that may be set on littlecollie.com
Name Set by Purpose Lifetime
__cf_bm Cloudflare Distinguishes automated traffic from people. Strictly necessary; not used to identify anyone. 30 minutes
cf_clearance Cloudflare Records that a security challenge was passed, so it is not shown again. Set only if you are challenged. Up to 1 year

Both are strictly necessary security cookies and neither is used for analytics or advertising. Shepherd's own cookies are a separate set, listed in the Shepherd Cookie Policy.

Your rights, and how to use them

Depending on where you live you may have rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection and portability. In practice there is very little here to exercise them against — this site holds no record that identifies you.

Write to [email protected] and you will get an answer. Contact details, and the registered entity's address for service, are on the contact page.

Changes

If this site starts doing something that collects data — a form, an analytics tool, an embed — this notice changes first, and the change is described here rather than announced by a banner appearing one day.