Privacy policy
What we do not collect
No accounts. Nothing you type into a tool is collected, transmitted, or stored, so there is nothing to breach.
Email list
If you join the email list or request the cheat sheet, your address is collected by a form on this site and stored in a database run by Maineblock. The cheat sheet itself is delivered by email through Resend. The newsletter is published through Substack: to send it, subscriber addresses are transferred to Substack. No Substack forms or embeds run on this site. Unsubscribe anytime; your address is never sold.
Cookies
Maineblock sets no cookies of its own.
Analytics
Maineblock uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited, and in what numbers. The service reports aggregate visit statistics, and it does not use cookies to collect them.
Advertising
Advertising keeps Maineblock free. Some pages include ad units from Google AdSense. Google may use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other sites. Maineblock does not control the ads Google serves.
If you use the language selector, the page is translated by Google Translate. The text of the page is sent to Google for translation, and Google stores your language choice in a cookie so it carries from page to page. Names of people and Maineblock brand names are marked on the page so they are not translated.
Stock Valuation Studio assistant
If you use MIA, the assistant in Stock Valuation Studio, your question and the text of the workup on your screen are transmitted to Anthropic, whose Claude service generates the response. Anthropic processes that data under its own privacy policy. Do not enter personal or sensitive information into the chat.
Survey
The Maine Mood survey collects answers anonymously. To keep results trustworthy, the survey runs a Cloudflare security check before accepting a response, and stores a salted one-way hash of the network address (never the address itself) to limit duplicate responses. A small flag in the local storage of your browser notes that you already voted this month. Survey answers are never connected to your identity.
Comments
If you leave a comment on a guide, the name and comment you enter are published on that page after review. Approval is not permanent: an approved comment can be deleted later. You may ask for your own comment to be removed at any time through the contact details on the about page, and Maineblock may remove a comment after approval. Deleting a comment also removes its replies. To prevent abuse, comments run a Cloudflare security check before they are accepted, and we store a one-way hash of your network address (never the address itself) to limit spam. Comment information is never sold or shared.
Last updated: October 2026.