The short version: Forge & Bridle does not run analytics, does not run a newsletter, and does not put you behind any kind of account or login. What follows is the honest long version, including the two things this site genuinely cannot avoid sharing.
There is no visitor tracking of any kind - no Google Analytics, no Facebook pixel, no heatmapping, no A/B testing scripts. There is no newsletter signup, so no email address is ever collected or stored. There are no user accounts, no comments section and nothing to log in to, so there is no password or profile data to protect in the first place.
This site's headings and body text are loaded from Google Fonts (Arvo and PT Sans). Loading a font this way means your browser makes a request directly to Google's servers, and that request carries your IP address the same way any web request does. This is the single most common privacy detail static sites get wrong by omission, so it is named here plainly rather than glossed over.
Separately, this site is served through Cloudflare, which keeps standard server access logs (the kind almost every website on the internet generates) for security and performance reasons. Cloudflare's own privacy policy governs that data, not this site's.
The contact page lists a plain email address rather than a web form. Nothing you send is stored anywhere beyond an ordinary email inbox, and nothing is added to any list or shared with anyone else.
This site does not set any cookies of its own. Cloudflare may set a small number of technical cookies as part of serving the site securely; these are not used for tracking or advertising.
If what this site collects or shares ever changes, this page will be updated to say so plainly, in the same style as the rest of it - no legal boilerplate, just what actually happens.