Privacy & Disclosure

The short version

Dad Who Runs is a one-person blog. I’m Jae. I write about marathon training, gear, and being a dad. I don’t run ads, I don’t sell email lists, and I don’t sell anyone’s data. There’s no email signup form on the site, no comments section, and no login.

What the site does do is host content, link to a few affiliate programs, run a small print-on-demand shop, and sit behind a CDN that handles standard web traffic logs. The rest of this page explains what that actually means.

What gets collected

Server-side traffic logs (Cloudflare + host).Like every website, visits are logged at the network layer. That includes your IP address, the page you requested, the time, your browser’s user-agent string, and the page you came from. These logs are used to keep the site online, block abuse, and see roughly how many people read each post. They’re kept for a short window (typically 30 days) and then rotated out.

No analytics tracker. The site does not currently use Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, or any other third-party analytics. If that changes, this page will be updated and the tracker will be a privacy-respecting one (no cookies, no cross-site).

No cookies set by me. Dad Who Runs does not set any first-party cookies. Cloudflare may set a small, anonymous cookie (__cf_bm) for bot management; that’s standard for any Cloudflare-fronted site and does not identify you.

No email collection.There’s no newsletter signup. If that changes one day, signups will be opt-in only, stored with a single mailing provider, and you’ll be able to unsubscribe with one click.

Affiliate links

Some posts and the gear page contain affiliate links — most often to Amazon, sometimes to a brand’s direct site (ASICS, 1st Phorm, etc.). When you click one of those links and buy something, the retailer pays Dad Who Runs a small commission. It costs you nothing extra.

Affiliate links are individually marked on every post that contains them, and the same disclosure runs in the site footer. Posts that contain affiliate links are also tagged with an affiliate flag in the post header and show the full disclosure block at the top.

Clicking an affiliate link takes you to a third-party site (Amazon, ASICS, etc.) that sets its own cookies and runs under its own privacy policy. Dad Who Runs does not receive your purchase history, credit card details, or personal information — only an aggregated count of clicks and commissions.

The shop

Checkout is handled by Stripe; fulfillment by Printful. I never see your card details — Stripe does. Your shipping address goes to Printful only to get the order to your door. Neither your payment nor your address is stored on this site.

Third-party services on the site

The site loads a small number of third-party resources:

• Cloudflare— CDN and bot mitigation. Sees every request. Privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
• Google Fonts— serves the Fraunces and Outfit typefaces. May log your IP at font-fetch time. Privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
• Stripe— payment processing at checkout. Handles your card details directly. Privacy policy: stripe.com/privacy
• Printful— print-on-demand fulfillment. Receives your shipping address to ship orders. Privacy policy: printful.com/policies/privacy
• Strava— some posts embed a small “sticker” with run stats pulled from my Strava account. The data shown is mine, not yours. Privacy policy: strava.com/legal/privacy
• Amazon Associates— affiliate links to Amazon use the tracking tag dadwhoruns-20. Amazon handles the click and any subsequent purchase under their own policy: amazon.com/privacy

Children

Dad Who Runs is not directed at children under 13. The site does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided information through the site (which would have to happen via an affiliate or third-party link), contact me and I’ll work to remove it.

Your rights

Because Dad Who Runs does not store personal data beyond short-lived server logs (and the order details Stripe and Printful need to ship your shirt), there is no account to delete and no profile to access. If you live somewhere that grants specific rights over your data (GDPR, CCPA), you can ask me directly and I’ll do what the law requires within a reasonable window.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or takedown requests: jae@dadwhoruns.com.

This policy may be updated as the site changes. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent material change.