Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 April 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected and used when you visit verty.gay and related links operated through its short-link system (l.verty.gay).

1. Who runs this site

This site is operated by the owner of verty.gay.

2. What this site is

verty.gay is a personal website. It may include personal pages, a blog, and more.

This site does not currently offer user accounts, comments, newsletters, contact forms, or other features where visitors directly submit information through the website.

3. Information collected automatically

When you visit this site, some information may be collected automatically for analytics, performance, and link-tracking purposes.

a) Website analytics

This site uses:

• Google Analytics - Privacy
• Microsoft Clarity - Privacy

These services may collect information such as:

• pages visited
• approximate location information
• browser type
• device information
• operating system
• referring pages
• how visitors interact with pages on the site
• technical information used to measure traffic and improve the site

These tools may use cookies or similar technologies to help understand how visitors use the site.

4. Short-link tracking

Links leading to and from this website may pass through a custom URL shortener operated in connection with this site through the l.verty.gay domain.

When a short link is used, the following information may be logged:

• full IP address
• referrer
• user agent
• operating system
• timestamp
• the short URL or visited URL that was clicked
• the destination URL
• city and country derived from the IP address using a third-party geolocation service

This information is used for purposes such as:

• understanding link traffic
• measuring usage
• preventing abuse
• diagnosing technical issues
• maintaining and improving the short-link system

5. How location data is obtained

The short-link system uses a third-party geolocation service to look up approximate city and country information based on a visitor's IP address. The resulting city and country information is then stored alongside the link log.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

This site uses third-party analytics tools that may place cookies or use similar technologies.

These may be used to:

• remember browser sessions
• distinguish visitors
• measure traffic and engagement
• understand how pages and links are used

At present, this site does not provide its own built-in cookie preference tool.

You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings and through third-party opt-out tools offered by analytics providers.

7. How information is used

Information collected through this site may be used to:

• operate the website
• understand traffic and site usage
• improve content, layout, and performance
• analyse how visitors use pages and links
• monitor the reliability and abuse of the short-link system
• maintain security and technical integrity

8. Sharing of information

Information may be shared with service providers involved in operating the site and its analytics, including:

• Google, for Google Analytics
• Microsoft, for Microsoft Clarity
• the provider of the geolocation lookup service used by the short-link system
• hosting or infrastructure providers where logs are stored or processed

This site does not sell personal information.

9. Data retention

Short-link tracking data described above is currently retained indefinitely, unless this policy is updated or deletion is required for legal, technical, or operational reasons.

Retention periods for data processed by third-party services such as Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity may be governed by those services' own settings and policies.

10. Third-party links

This site may contain links to third-party websites or services. Once you leave verty.gay, their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this one.

11. Data security

Reasonable steps are taken to protect stored information, but no method of transmission or storage over the internet is completely secure. Because of that, absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

12. Children

This site is intended for a general audience and is not specifically directed at children.

13. Your choices

Depending on how you access the site and where you are located, you may be able to:

• block or delete cookies through your browser settings
• use privacy tools or browser extensions that limit tracking
• use opt-out options provided by analytics services
• stop using short links connected to this site if you do not want that tracking to occur

14. Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.