The short version
Site Stumble is built to help people find websites, not to build invasive profiles about them. Anonymous visitors can browse without creating an account. A small amount of technical and activity data keeps the stumble experience working, prevents repeats and abuse, and tells us which parts of the product are useful.
Information we handle
Information you provide
- Account information: email address, password hash, optional display name, and account timestamps. We never store your plain-text password.
- Google sign-in: if you choose Google, we receive your Google account identifier, verified email address, name, and profile image. Site Stumble does not receive your Google password.
- Saved activity: signed-in stumble history, favorites, and related timestamps.
- Site suggestions: the URL and notes you choose to send for editorial review.
- Contact messages: your name, email address, selected topic, optional related URL, message, and the time it was received.
Information created through use
We record events needed to select and improve stumbles, such as which listed site was selected, the chosen category, feedback actions, a random session identifier, and event time. Our servers and protective infrastructure also process ordinary request data such as IP address, browser and device details, requested URL, referrer, and timestamps.
Why we use it
We use this information to deliver the directory and stumble browser; authenticate accounts; synchronize history and favorites; review suggestions and reports; answer messages; diagnose failures; prevent fraud and abuse; understand aggregate usage; comply with law; and establish or defend legal claims.
Fluxly real-time analytics
We use Fluxly (fluxly.net) for real-time website analytics. Its tracking script measures how visitors use Site Stumble, including:
- Page activity: page paths and titles, pageviews, visit times, and periodic activity signals that help count currently active visitors.
- Traffic sources: referring pages and campaign tags (UTM source, medium, campaign, term, and content) when present.
- Device and location details: approximate country, browser, device type, and screen and browser-window dimensions.
- Visitor and session identifiers: randomly generated identifiers saved in your browser’s local storage and session storage to distinguish returning visitors and active sessions.
Fluxly also receives your IP address and browser user-agent information when your browser sends analytics requests. These help estimate location and device details and detect bots or abuse. We use the resulting reports to understand traffic trends, see which pages are useful, and improve the service.
We do not send account email addresses, passwords, or contact-form contents to Fluxly. Our Fluxly integration does not track what you do inside independent destination websites. See Fluxly’s privacy policy for its data-handling and retention practices.
What happens at destination websites
Directory links and the Stumble frame load websites operated by other people and organizations. When a destination loads—even inside the Site Stumble frame—your browser connects to that destination. Its operator can receive your IP address, browser details, referrer information, cookies it has previously set, and anything you choose to provide there.
Site Stumble does not control a destination’s cookies, analytics, advertising, accounts, purchases, or privacy policy. Review that site’s policy before sharing information. If you leave the Stumble frame or interact with a destination, that activity is between you and the destination operator.
Who helps operate Site Stumble
We disclose information only as needed to run and protect the service, complete a user-requested action, comply with law, or handle a business transition. The principal categories are:
These providers may process information in countries other than yours. Where applicable, their terms, data-transfer mechanisms, and legal obligations govern their processing.
Advertising and Google AdSense
When AdSense is enabled, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve, limit, personalize, and measure ads, prevent fraud, and report performance. Google’s use of advertising cookies can enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to Site Stumble and other sites.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Visitors may also use AboutAds choices for participating providers. Before personalized ads are shown where consent is required, Site Stumble will deploy an appropriate consent mechanism and honor the choices it collects.
Advertising does not buy a place in the directory. Any sponsored or paid placement will be labeled so it cannot be confused with an editorial selection.
Retention and security
We keep information for only as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose described here, including service operation, editorial records, security, dispute resolution, and legal obligations. Account records, saved history, and favorites generally remain until you delete them or ask us to remove the account. Suggestions remain as an editorial record; contact messages remain while they are handled and for a reasonable follow-up period. Backup copies may persist for a limited time after deletion.
We use measures appropriate to a small production web service, including encrypted transport, hashed passwords and session tokens, restricted administrative access, separated production services, request validation, and security monitoring. No internet service can promise absolute security. Please do not send passwords, payment details, government identifiers, health records, or other sensitive information through suggestions or the contact form.
Your choices and privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of personal information; object to or opt out of certain processing; withdraw consent; or appeal a decision. Site Stumble does not sell personal information and does not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising today.
- Delete signed-in history from your account and remove anonymous history with your browser controls.
- Unfavorite sites at any time and sign out to end the current browser session.
- Use Google’s controls to disconnect Site Stumble from your Google account.
- Send an account or privacy request through the contact page. We may need to verify that the email or account is yours.
- Complain to your local data-protection authority where that right applies.
We do not discriminate against people for exercising applicable privacy rights.
Children, international visitors, and policy changes
Site Stumble is a general-audience discovery service and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13. A parent or guardian who believes a child supplied information should contact us so we can investigate and delete it.
The service is operated from the United States, so information may be processed there and wherever our providers operate. We may update this policy as the product, providers, or law changes. Material changes will be highlighted on this page and the “last updated” date will move. Continued use after an update is subject to the revised policy, to the extent permitted by law.
Contact us about privacy
Use the privacy route on our contact page for questions, access or deletion requests, objections, or concerns. Include the account email involved and enough detail to identify the request, but do not include a password or sensitive documents in the first message.