Visiting this site without leaving traces

1. What this site collects

Nothing. Specifically:

• No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Plausible, no pixels, no tracking of any kind.
• No cookies. The site sets none.
• No accounts, no sign-in, no newsletter, no comments.
• No third-party requests. No hosted fonts, no embedded video, no social widgets, no content delivery networks. Every file the site loads comes from the site itself, which means no other company learns that you visited.
• No questionnaire submission. The questionnaire is scored by code running inside your own browser. Your answers are held in the page’s memory and vanish the moment you close or reload the tab. They are never transmitted, and they are deliberately not saved — so that nothing is waiting on the device for someone else to find.

The one exception, stated for completeness: if you use the light/dark theme button, your browser stores a single value — the word light or dark — locally on your device. It contains nothing about you, it is never sent anywhere, and clearing your browser data removes it.

The honest caveat

Like every website, this one is served by a web host, and web hosts typically keep short-term server logs that include visitors’ IP addresses. We do not read them, analyse them or connect them to anything, but we would be lying if we said no record exists anywhere. More importantly, your internet provider, your employer’s network, and anyone with access to your device can potentially see which sites you visit regardless of what any website promises. That is the risk worth planning around, and the rest of this page is about it.

2. What the quick-exit button does

The Quick exit button at the top of every page opens a neutral site in a new tab and replaces this page with another neutral site, so that pressing Back does not return here. Pressing Esc twice in quick succession does the same thing.

It also cannot help if the page is already visible on a shared screen, and it does nothing about a printed page or a copied summary. If you print or copy your questionnaire results, think about where that ends up.

3. Browsing without leaving a record

Ranked roughly from most to least protective.

Use a device the group cannot reach

The strongest option by a wide margin. A public library computer, a phone belonging to a friend outside the group, a work machine if your employer is unconnected. If you have any reason to think your own devices are monitored, this is not paranoia and it is the option to take.

Use private or incognito browsing

A private window does not save history, cookies or form entries on the device once you close it. Open one with Ctrl+Shift+N (Chrome and Edge) or Ctrl+Shift+P (Firefox); on a Mac use ⌘ in place of Ctrl. On mobile, look for “New private tab” or “New incognito tab” in the browser menu. Note that this hides your visit from other users of the device — it does not hide it from your network or your internet provider.

Clear your history afterwards

Every browser has a history menu from which individual entries can be deleted. Two cautions. Clearing everything can itself be conspicuous if someone expects to find a history there, so deleting only the relevant entries is often wiser. And if the browser is signed in to an account with sync switched on, history may already have been copied to other devices — and to a family or organisation account.

Check what else is signed in

Browser sync, shared cloud accounts, a family plan, and mobile devices set up by someone else can all replicate activity to places you did not intend. If a group or a partner set up your phone or laptop, treat it as theirs.

If you suspect monitoring software

Some devices carry software that records activity regardless of history settings — installed for legitimate reasons, or not. If you suspect it, do not go looking for it on that device: searching for it is itself recorded, and removing it can alert whoever installed it. Use a different device instead, and consider talking to a domestic-abuse or digital-safety service, which will have current, practical guidance.

4. Contacting anyone safely

• Use an email address the group does not know about, created on a device it does not control. Free providers take a couple of minutes.
• Be careful with shared devices and shared accounts. Email drafts, sent items and notifications on a linked phone or tablet are all visible.
• Notifications are the common failure. A message preview on a lock screen, or a helpline’s name appearing on a shared smartwatch, undoes every other precaution. Turn previews off before you start.
• Many helplines offer text or web chat, which is safer than a call if you cannot speak freely — and often does not appear on a phone bill.

5. Physical traces

Digital caution is undone by a printout in a bin, a book on a shelf, a leaflet in a bag, or a written note. If you are keeping a record of what is happening to you — which is worth doing — keep it somewhere the group cannot reach: with a trusted person outside, or in an account created on a device the group does not control.

6. Why this site is built the way it is

The technical choices here follow from the subject. A site about coercive control that tracked its readers, or that quietly handed a record of their visit to an advertising network, would be contradicting itself in a way we are not willing to accept.

So this is a plain static website. There is no database, no server-side code, no third-party service, and nothing that could later be subpoenaed, breached or sold, because nothing about you is ever collected in the first place. It is also the reason the questionnaire deliberately does not save your progress: the convenience is not worth what it would leave behind on a shared machine.