Privacy policy
Effective date: 6 November 2026
This policy covers Prep Timer (preptimer.com, "we"), run by OverProtect LLC. It explains what information we collect, why, and what control you have.
For readers
What we measure. To learn which articles are useful, this site counts page views, time spent reading, how far readers get through an article, which site or search engine sent them, and links they follow. With each visit we record the page, the referring site, the country and region, such as a state or province (from the network, not from precise location), and the type of device and browser.
What we do not collect. We do not use advertising cookies or third-party trackers, we do not build profiles, and we do not sell or share information about readers. We do not store IP addresses: to count unique visitors, the address and browser are combined into a one-way code that changes every day and cannot be reversed.
Returning readers. Outside the European Union, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, this site keeps a random identifier in your browser's local storage so that we can tell when a reader comes back. It contains nothing about you, is not a cookie, is not shared with anyone, and is discarded after 30 days without a visit. In the EU, EEA and UK we do not store it. You can delete it at any time by clearing your browser's data for this site.
Your signals are respected. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, we do not store the returning-reader identifier or a daily visitor code.
Ads. Some articles may be promoted with Google search ads. If you arrive from one, we record that the visit came from an ad campaign, so we can tell whether the ad brought readers who found the article useful. Google's handling of ad clicks is covered by Google's privacy policy.
Retention. Individual visit records are kept for up to 3 months in our analytics store (Cloudflare) and are reduced every day to totals that contain no information about individual readers; only the totals are kept after that.
Email updates
If this site offers updates by email and you subscribe, we store your email address, when and on which page you signed up, a one-way code made from your network address (as evidence of your consent, never the address itself), and your browser type. We send one email to confirm, and nothing more unless you confirm. After that we record which of our emails were sent to you and which links in them you followed, so we can tell which emails are useful.
No open tracking. Our emails contain no tracking pixels; we do not record whether or when you open them.
Who sends them. Our emails are sent through Amazon Web Services (Amazon Simple Email Service), which processes your address only to deliver them.
Stopping. Every email has an unsubscribe link that works in one click, without signing in, and takes effect at once. Thirty days after you unsubscribe (or if our emails to you bounce), we delete your address and keep only a one-way code of it, so that we never email it again by mistake. A sign-up that is never confirmed is deleted after 30 days. To have your details deleted sooner, contact us at the address below.
Google user data
Our publishing system is a private tool used only by us to manage our own websites and our own Google accounts. When the owner connects a Google account, our publishing system accesses the following Google user data, for these purposes only:
| Google service | Data accessed | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console | The owner's verified sites, sitemap status, and search performance for those sites (queries, clicks, impressions, positions) | To verify the owner's sites, submit their sitemaps, and see which articles people search for |
| Site Verification | Verification tokens for the owner's sites | To prove ownership of new sites in Search Console |
| Google Ads | The owner's ad account, and the campaigns, budgets, keywords, ads and results that our publishing system creates | To promote the owner's articles within limits the owner sets, and to judge each campaign by whether readers read the article |
How it is stored. Google sign-in tokens are stored encrypted. The data above is stored in our hosting provider's (Cloudflare) databases, and is used only to run and improve the owner's own websites.
Sharing. We do not sell Google user data and do not share it for advertising. We do not use it for advertising profiles, and we do not use it to train general-purpose AI or machine-learning models. Two uses involve automated systems, both only for the owner's own websites:
- AI agents that write and improve our articles (models from Anthropic and OpenAI, called through their APIs) may read
the owner's site performance figures through our publishing system, solely to decide what to write or improve on those sites.
- The figures are recorded with the changes made to the sites, so that our publishing system can learn which changes help readers and
make better decisions for the owner's sites.
Limited Use. Our publishing system's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Retention and deletion. Search and ad performance figures are kept while the owner uses our publishing system, so that results can be compared over time. Access can be revoked at any time from the Google account's third-party access page, after which no further Google data is accessed. To have stored data deleted, contact us at the address below.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your information: support@overprotect.co.
