Privacy
No cookies. No analytics. No server to send anything to.
This notice describes what this website actually does, which is very little. It was written against the code rather than from a template, and every claim on it can be checked by opening the developer tools and watching nothing happen.
A static site · Plinth Home Lending · a demonstration
The short version
- No cookies are set by this site, of any kind, for any purpose.
- There is no analytics, no tag manager, no advertising pixel and no session recording.
- There is no third-party script on any page. The fonts, the icons and the charts are all served from this domain.
- There is no server, no database and no API. Every page is a static file.
- No form on this site transmits anything. The calculators run entirely in your browser.
- The only thing that can be stored is a short list of appearance and reading preferences, in this browser, and only if you accept in the storage sheet.
This is a demonstration
Plinth Home Lending is invented. The company, the street address, the telephone number and the email domain do not belong to a real business, and the site is a design demonstration built by a studio called Quarry. There is no lender here to hold your information, which is the most complete privacy guarantee available and also the least impressive one.
Because there is no business behind the site, there is also no marketing list, no lead buyer, no partner network and nobody to sell anything to. The programme rules quoted across the site are real; the company is not.
What is not collected
Rather than describe categories of data in the abstract, here is the list of things a lending site normally does that this one does not do at all.
- No cookies. Not first-party, not third-party, not for consent, not for sessions. The storage sheet at the bottom of the page is not a cookie banner; it is asking about browser storage, which is a different thing, and it says so.
- No analytics. No page-view counting, no heat maps, no scroll tracking, no funnel measurement, no A/B testing.
- No tags or pixels. No tag manager, no advertising pixel, no conversion tracking, no remarketing audience.
- No third-party requests. Typefaces are self-hosted from this domain, icons are one inline sprite, and the charts are drawn in the page. Nothing loads from a content delivery network you did not ask for.
- No fingerprinting. Nothing on the site reads your fonts, your canvas, your battery, your devices or your network to identify the browser.
- No account. There is nothing to sign into, so there is no password, no email verification and no profile.
The share buttons on the calculator pages are ordinary links. They carry no script and load nothing. If you click one, your browser goes to that company’s website with the page address attached, exactly as if you had pasted it there yourself. If you do not click, nothing at all is exchanged.
What is stored in your browser
The site has a theme switch, four text sizes, a high contrast mode, a reduce-motion switch, a link-underlining switch and four colour palettes. Those choices have to be remembered somewhere or the site forgets you on every page. They are kept in this browser’s localStorage, on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere and none of it identifies you.
They are written only if you accept in the storage sheet. If you decline, every key already written is deleted, the refusal itself is recorded, and every further write becomes a no-op for as long as that refusal stands. That is not a promise about intentions; it is a branch in the code, insrc/lib/client.ts.
| Key | What it remembers | Values |
|---|---|---|
plinth:cookie | Your answer to the storage sheet | all, or essential-only |
plinth:theme | Light, dark or follow the system | light, dark, system |
plinth:pal | Which of the four strata palettes is painted | strata, kiln, tidewater, oxide |
plinth:text | Your text-size choice | md, lg, xl, xxl |
plinth:contrast | The high-contrast switch | normal, high |
plinth:motion | The reduce-motion switch | full, reduce |
plinth:links | Whether links are underlined everywhere | default, underline |
plinth:font | The type pairing | quarry, plain, book |
plinth:kit and the identity keys | The design kit, which only opens on a ?kit=1 address, can recolour the site and rename the demo business for a screenshot | short strings you typed yourself |
There is no expiry on these, because browser storage has none. They stay until you clear them, and the next two sections say how.
The address bar
Two kinds of thing are written into the query string of the page you are on: your appearance choices, so that a link reproduces the site as you are seeing it, and the numbers you type into a calculator, so that a link reproduces the result. This is deliberate, it is why the calculators are shareable, and it happens entirely in your browser using the history API.
It also means the numbers are visible in the address bar, in your own browser history, and to anybody you send the link to. If you would rather they were not, delete the query string before sharing, or share the bare page address.
The forms
There are two form-shaped things on the site and neither of them submits. The question form validates what you type, shows you the errors a real form would show you, and then stops; it says so above the fields. The share bar can open a message in your own email client through a mailto: link with no recipient filled in, which means your email client, not this site, decides what happens next.
There is no endpoint anywhere in this project to receive a submission. If a real lender built on this design, that is exactly where their privacy notice would need to become much longer than this one.
Hosting and server logs
The site is a set of static files served by a hosting provider. Like every web host, that provider will see the ordinary technical information any request carries: an IP address, a user agent, the file requested, the time. That is a function of how the internet works rather than something this site collects, and nothing on these pages reads, augments or stores it. There is no code here that could.
Removing everything
- Decline in the storage sheet. Choosing Do not store anything deletes the keys already written and stops any further ones.
- Use the reading controls. The access panel on the left edge has a Back to the defaults button that clears every preference key it manages.
- Clear site data in your browser. Any browser can delete local storage for a single site, and doing so returns this one to its defaults completely.
- Or do nothing. If you never answer the storage sheet, nothing beyond that unanswered state is written at all.
Changes and contact
If the behaviour of the site changes, this page changes with it, because it describes the code rather than an intention. There is no version history to publish and no notification list to join, since there is nobody to notify.
Questions about this page can go to [email protected], which is an invented address on an invented domain, or to(816) 555-0147, which is a number inside the block reserved for fiction. Both are here because a real site would have them, and neither will reach anybody.
Plinth Home Lending is a design demonstration. The company, the address, the phone number and the email domain are invented. No licence, NMLS identifier, rate, approval or timeline on this site is real, and no form on it transmits or stores anything.