Privacy Policy

The Dallas Compass is a static publication: its pages are plain files served as they are, with no database and no account system behind them. There is nowhere on the site for a reader to register, log in, or build a profile, because no such system exists. At launch, the site runs no analytics software and places no tracking pixel, tracking script, or third-party advertising script of any kind. It sets no cookies of its own, and it does not read or write any browser storage to identify a returning visitor.

There is no form anywhere on the site: no newsletter signup, no comment box, no survey. The only way to reach the editorial desk is the mailto link on the contact page, which opens the reader's own email program rather than a page on this site. Anything written in that message travels directly to the desk's inbox the same way any other email would; the site itself never sees, stores, or logs the contents of that message.

Like any site reachable on the open web, this one is served through a hosting provider, and that provider may keep its own standard request logs: the kind of record most web servers generate automatically, typically an IP address, a timestamp, the page requested, and basic browser information. That logging happens at the hosting level, not inside the site's own code, and this publication does not direct it beyond what the hosting provider does by default. The Compass does not combine that log data with any other record, and does not sell, rent, or share visitor information with anyone.

This notice describes the site as it runs today, plainly and without qualification. If what the site collects ever changes, whether that means adding analytics or any other form of data collection, this page will be updated first to describe the change in the same plain terms used above. The rest of the front page carries no separate privacy terms of its own; this notice covers the whole site.