Privacy notice

The short version

This site is served as static files. On a normal visit it:

• sets no first-party tracking cookies and uses no local storage of its own for tracking;
• loads Google Analytics 4 (gtag.js), which does set its own cookies and measures the visit — described in full below;
• runs no ads and no other third-party trackers — ad slots exist in the layout but are disabled;
• has no account system and asks for no personal details;
• stores no form submissions, because it has no server to store them on.

The rest of this notice describes what a visit does involve, so the picture is accurate rather than empty.

Measurement: Google Analytics 4

Every production page loads Google's gtag.js script (www.googletagmanager.com) to measure aggregate traffic. Through it, Google receives, per visit: the pages you view and referring site, your device and browser details (user agent, screen, etc.), your IP address — from which GA4 derives approximate location (country/city level; full IPs are not stored by GA4 for reporting), and usage events. The events MotoSutra explicitly asks it to record are:

• search — when you submit a search, the query text you typed is sent as the event's search_term parameter; typing itself is not tracked;
• click — when you click a link that leaves this site, the destination URL and its link text are sent; internal links, email and phone links are not.

The data is used to understand which content is read. It is not sold, and MotoSutra does not receive personally identifying information from it. Google handles the data under its own privacy policy. This site ships no cookie-consent prompt: GA4 runs here without one, which is a disclosure choice, not a claim of compliance with any particular consent regime — if you visit under laws that require opt-in consent (for example the EU/EEA), that mechanism is not currently implemented on this site.

What loading a page sends

Pages are pre-rendered HTML, CSS and a small amount of JavaScript, fetched directly from the static host. Serving them means your browser sends standard request data (IP address, user agent, the page requested) to that host, which typically keeps ordinary request logs; those logs are governed by the hosting provider, not by anything on this site. The search page loads its index from a same-origin file — search matching happens in your browser; only submitted searches reach Google, as described above.

Third-party requests

Loading a page makes exactly two kinds of third-party request: Google Fonts stylesheets (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com) and the Google Analytics tag (www.googletagmanager.com). Each shows those Google services your IP address and browser details. Pages render fine even if either request is blocked — and in local development or preview builds the analytics tag is not present at all.

Forms and email

The site has no forms. Every email route — the desk address on the contact page and the "Email" share link on article pages — is a mailto: link that opens your own mail client pre-addressed and stores nothing here. Anything you then send is a message you chose to write, travelling through your mail provider — not through this site.

Sharing buttons

Article pages carry share links (WhatsApp, X, Facebook, email). They are plain links: no third-party script loads until you click one, and clicking opens that service's own site, which then handles you under its own privacy policy.

Advertising: reserved, disabled

Ad slots are reserved in the page layout but unmounted — the build flag that would enable them is off, and no ad network is wired up. If ads or any additional tracking were ever added, this notice would have to be updated to describe them first, and the page you are reading is the record of what is true today.

Children, accounts and data requests

There is no account system, no comments and no user-submitted content, so this site itself holds no personal data about any visitor, of any age. What measurement exists runs through Google Analytics, as described above; requests about that data go to Google, and the only other party holding visit data is the host serving the static files.

Changes to this notice

This page describes the site as deployed. If its behaviour changes, the changed page is the updated notice — check back here, or read the terms of use for how unverified catalogue figures should be interpreted.