Privacy, in plain language

Automation Notes is a static reading website with no accounts, comments, contact forms, newsletter forms, advertising profiles or cookie-based personalization.

Information handled to deliver a page

As with ordinary web hosting, the hosting and network providers process technical request data needed to deliver and protect the site. This can include an IP address, requested URL, time, browser or device information and security logs. Automation Notes does not use this data for behavioral advertising.

Cookie-free first-party analytics

Starting 26 July 2026, the site uses a limited first-party analytics service operated at x-app.eu. On each page view, the browser sends the site hostname, requested path and, when the browser supplies it, the referring hostname and path without query parameters. The site does not set analytics cookies or load Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager or advertising pixels. The only script served from another origin is the Google preferred sources control described below, which this site does not use for measurement.

A random session identifier is kept in sessionStorage and remains valid for 30 minutes of inactivity. It is replaced after that interval and is removed when the browser tab session ends. The analytics endpoint processes the IP address transiently with a rotating daily salt to create a one-way daily anonymized visitor hash; the raw IP address is not stored. The user agent is reduced to a device category, and the hosting edge may add a country code for aggregated reporting. The daily hash is not designed to recognize a reader across days.

Reports contain aggregated counts by date, site hostname, page path, referrer, device category and country. The random session identifier supports session totals; it is not connected to a name, account, email address or advertising identifier. The purpose is to understand which guides are useful, compare traffic over time and maintain the x-app.eu network.

Cookies and browser storage

The public site does not intentionally set analytics, advertising or preference cookies. Apart from the short-lived analytics session identifier described above, small interface features such as the copy button, the automation-mode selector and the planning calculators run entirely in the browser. The values you type into a calculator are never transmitted, never stored and are gone when the page is closed.

Google preferred sources control

The footer carries an Add Automation Notes to your Google preferred sources control. It is an ordinary link to Google’s own source settings and works with JavaScript turned off. When JavaScript is available, a script served by Google at news.google.com upgrades it so the confirmation appears in a Google dialog on this page instead of on a separate Google page. That script is requested from Google on every page of this site, so Google receives the technical request data described above, and Google’s terms apply to that request and to any choice you confirm. Automation Notes is not told whether you used the control, receives no identifier from it and sets no cookie for it. Blocking third-party scripts leaves the control working as a plain link.

External links

Source desks link to Home Assistant documentation and other external pages. Following a link sends a request to that provider, whose privacy terms apply. Apart from the preferred sources control described above, we embed no external scripts, videos, fonts or tracking pixels on this site.

Questions and changes

The publisher is the x-app.eu domain holder. For privacy questions, use the contact route provided through the official EURid domain-holder lookup. This policy will be updated before any material change to forms, advertising or other processing is enabled.

Last updated: 26 August 2026. Cookie-free first-party analytics collection began on 26 July 2026; the Google preferred sources control was added on 26 August 2026.