Anonymous traffic and action counts
The site automatically records daily pageviews, referring website names (without their paths or queries), recognized campaign-source categories, page loads with 30 seconds of foreground time, and 50% and 90% scroll thresholds. It also records public actions, such as starting a tool, completing a Tail Factor round, voting for a photograph, downloading public readings, sharing a planner link, or following an external link. Each total contains the UTC date, event type, public page path without its query string, and a short category label. No analytics cookies or visitor identifiers are used. Signed-in owner traffic and recognized automated clients are excluded from these first-party counts. It does not contain submitted tool values, names, email addresses, IP addresses, or a persistent visitor identifier.
These counts are stored with the site's private application database and backups. A short-lived, one-way value derived from a network address may be used separately to limit automated abuse. It is not included in analytics reports.
Cloudflare Web Analytics
GrowActuary may use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure aggregate page traffic, referral sources, general device and browser categories, approximate country, and page performance. Cloudflare states that this service does not collect or use visitors' personal data. Its dashboard retains six months of Web Analytics data.
Functional browser storage
The age confirmation uses a cookie so returning visitors are not asked on every page. Owner sign-in uses a secure session cookie. Best Shots uses a random session value to remember votes in the current browser, and Tail Factor can store a best score locally. Studio also saves a local browser preference to exclude the owner's browsing from first-party analytics and Cloudflare after sign-in expires. This preference is an on/off value, not an identifier. These values are used for the feature that created them, not for traffic profiling.
Public interactions and external services
Best Shots votes are stored under a one-way pseudonymous value. A Tail Factor leaderboard name is public when a visitor chooses to submit one. When a visitor uses the optional Grow Planner city lookup, the browser sends the entered city or postal code to Open-Meteo and requests historical weather for the matched coordinates. GrowActuary does not store the query or result. Links and some product images come from external sites; visiting or loading those resources is subject to the external site's own practices. Affiliate links are labeled.
Your choices
Both browser analytics collectors respect supported Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals. Disabling JavaScript also prevents browser-based analytics and interactive-event reporting, although essential server and security logs may still be created by the hosting platform.