The legal bits

Terms of use

Emberstacks Blog is a personal blog. Everything here is provided as-is, for reading and enjoyment. Stories describe real trips but are not advice; conditions change, tracks close, rivers rise. If you follow a route described here, you do so at your own risk and your own judgement.

The words and photos on this site belong to the author unless credited otherwise. You are welcome to share links anywhere. Please do not republish whole stories or photos without asking first; the contact page exists for exactly that kind of question.

Comments are open to everyone and appear straight away. Keep them civil. I remove comments that are spam, abusive, or plainly there to sell something, and I do not have to explain each removal. What you post in a comment is your responsibility.

Privacy

Here is everything this site stores, and why:

• Comments. The name you type (or none), your message, and the time. No account, no profile.
• Likes and dislikes. A one-way scrambled fingerprint of your connection and browser, kept up to a year. It exists only so votes cannot be stacked, and it cannot be turned back into anything that identifies you.
• Newsletter. Your name and email address, only if you sign up, only to send you new stories. Every email includes an unsubscribe link.
• Spam checks. The comment form, newsletter and contact reveal use Cloudflare Turnstile, which does its own checking under Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Nothing here is sold, traded or handed to advertisers. This site runs on Cloudflare, which processes requests to serve the pages, like any host does.

Want a comment removed or your email gone from the list? Get in touch and it will happen.

Cookies and local storage

No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no analytics that follow you around. The site remembers your dark or light mode choice in your own browser, and that is it. Embedded videos only load when you press play, and the video provider may set its own cookies at that point.

Changes

If any of this changes, the date above changes with it. No silent edits that matter.