Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-28

This page explains what information Voltery collects when you visit the site, why, how long it is retained, and the rights you have under Canadian and applicable foreign privacy law.

Who we are

Voltery is independent product research and recommendations for consumer electrical gear, written for a Canadian audience. The site is operated by Nathan Sandum.

What we collect, and why

We deliberately keep collection minimal.

When you visit the site, your browser is given one cookie:

  • Name: _s
  • Type: HTTP-only (not readable by JavaScript on this site or any other)
  • Value: a randomly generated UUID with no link to your identity
  • Lifetime: 30 minutes from your last action, then it expires
  • Purpose: lets us count one visit as one visit, rather than treating each page you load as a different person, so we can understand which articles are useful

The session cookie does not persist between visits. It cannot be used to identify you across days, devices, or browsers.

Server access logs

The web server records each request, including:

  • The path you requested
  • The HTTP status code
  • Your IP address
  • Your browser’s User-Agent string
  • The Referer header your browser sent

These are kept for 30 days for security monitoring (rate limiting, abuse detection) and then discarded.

Aggregate event data

If you click an outbound product link, or as you navigate between pages, we record a row in our events table with:

  • The session UUID described above
  • The type of event (page view, outbound click)
  • The page path
  • The referring page
  • The User-Agent
  • For outbound clicks: which vendor and product the click went to

This data is used only in aggregate — for example, “the Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 page got 412 visits this week and 31 outbound clicks to vendor X.” We do not combine it with anything that could identify you.

What we do not collect

  • No accounts, names, email addresses, phone numbers, or payment information. We have no signup or login.
  • No persistent identifiers across sessions. Each visit starts fresh.
  • No fingerprinting, no canvas tracking, no audio tracking, no browser-version stitching.
  • No third-party advertising or social-media trackers on our pages.
  • No cross-device or cross-browser tracking.

Voltery earns a commission when you click an outbound product link and complete a purchase on the vendor’s site (see “Affiliate disclosure” below).

Clicking such a link sends you through voltery.ca/go/<id>, which records the click in our events table as described above and then redirects you to the vendor.

On the vendor’s site, the vendor and their affiliate network typically set their own cookies on the vendor’s domain to attribute the sale. Those cookies are not under our control. Their privacy practices are governed by the vendor’s and the network’s own policies, not this one. The current affiliate networks we work with are:

If you would prefer no affiliate attribution at all, you can copy the vendor name from the page and search for the product directly on the vendor’s site instead of clicking the link.

Affiliate disclosure

Voltery participates in affiliate programs that pay us a commission when readers click our outbound product links and make a purchase. The price you pay is not affected by whether you arrive through our link. We only feature products we would recommend on the same merits without the commission, and we do not accept paid placement, paid reviews, or vendor-supplied copy.

How long we keep things

  • Session cookie: 30 minutes from last activity, then expired
  • Server access logs: 30 days, then discarded
  • Aggregate event rows: kept indefinitely for traffic analysis. Because no row contains identifying information, retention is low-risk.

Where the data is stored

The site runs on infrastructure located in Canada. The database is not exposed to the public internet.

Your rights

Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and if you are a Quebec resident, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Quebec Law 25), you have the right to:

  • Ask what personal information about you we hold
  • Ask to correct it
  • Ask to delete it
  • Withdraw consent at any time
  • File a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), or, in Quebec, the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec (CAI)

Because we collect no information that ties to you as an individual, an access or deletion request is generally limited to: clearing your session cookie (close your browser, or use private/incognito mode), and asking us to drop any access-log entries that contain your IP. Reach us at the contact address above to make such a request.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive apply in addition. Your rights include access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and lodging a complaint with your local data protection authority. We have no separate consent banner because the session cookie above is the only cookie we set, and we do not set persistent or cross-site identifiers.

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) applies. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when our practices change. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the latest revision. For material changes (new third-party processors, new categories of data collected), we will note the change at the top of the page for at least 30 days.