[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":188},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fprivacy":3,"author-mike":153},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"bare":7,"body":8,"dateModified":141,"datePublished":141,"description":142,"extension":143,"howToSteps":144,"kits":144,"layout":145,"meta":146,"navigation":7,"path":147,"schemaType":148,"seo":149,"sources":144,"stem":150,"targetKeywords":144,"titleTag":151,"translationOf":144,"__hash__":152},"content\u002Fprivacy.md","Privacy","mike",true,{"type":9,"value":10},"minimark",[11,18,23,30,36,42,45,51,73,76,80,94,98,101,105,114,118,121,125,128],[12,13,14],"answer-box",{},[15,16,17],"p",{},"We collect an email address if you give us one, and anonymous page statistics. We don't run ads, we don't sell anything to anyone, and we don't pass your details to solar installers.",[19,20,22],"h2",{"id":21},"what-we-collect","What we collect",[15,24,25,29],{},[26,27,28],"strong",{},"If you subscribe:"," your email address, and which page you subscribed from. We use it to send the newsletter. That's all.",[15,31,32,35],{},[26,33,34],{},"If you use the calculator:"," your answers, stored without your name or email unless you ask us to send you the result. We look at them in aggregate to see which questions confuse people.",[15,37,38,41],{},[26,39,40],{},"Everyone:"," we use Google Analytics. It sets a cookie so it can tell a returning visit from a new one, and records which pages you looked at, roughly where in the world you are, and which site you came from. Your IP address is truncated before it's stored.",[15,43,44],{},"We've turned off the advertising side of it: no ad personalisation, no sharing your data with Google's advertising products, no advertising cookies. So it isn't following you around other websites — but it is counting you here, and it's Google's software, not a privacy-first alternative.",[15,46,47,50],{},[26,48,49],{},"We also use PostHog",", which tells us which pages people actually use and where they give up — the calculator especially. It sets its own cookie. Three things we've deliberately switched off:",[52,53,54,61,67],"ul",{},[55,56,57,60],"li",{},[26,58,59],{},"No session recording."," We can't watch a replay of your visit.",[55,62,63,66],{},[26,64,65],{},"No form or input tracking."," It records clicks on links and buttons and nothing else. Whatever you type into the calculator, the outlet check, or the landlord letter is never sent to it.",[55,68,69,72],{},[26,70,71],{},"No profile of you"," unless you've given us your email. Anonymous readers are counted, not identified.",[15,74,75],{},"If any of this matters to you, a tracker blocker will stop both of them and nothing on this site will break.",[19,77,79],{"id":78},"what-we-dont-do","What we don't do",[52,81,82,85,88,91],{},[55,83,84],{},"Sell or rent our email list.",[55,86,87],{},"Pass your details to solar installers or lead buyers.",[55,89,90],{},"Run behavioural advertising.",[55,92,93],{},"Track you across other websites.",[19,95,97],{"id":96},"affiliate-links","Affiliate links",[15,99,100],{},"When you click a link to a seller, that seller may set a cookie so they know the visit came from us. That's how they know to pay us a commission. We don't see who you are, only that a sale happened.",[19,102,104],{"id":103},"getting-rid-of-your-data","Getting rid of your data",[15,106,107,108,113],{},"Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, which removes you immediately. To have anything else deleted, email ",[109,110,112],"a",{"href":111},"mailto:hello@smallsolarco.com","hello@smallsolarco.com"," and we'll do it.",[19,115,117],{"id":116},"california-privacy-rights","California privacy rights",[15,119,120],{},"California residents have rights under the CCPA to know what personal information is collected, to have it deleted, and not to be discriminated against for asking. Email us and we'll comply. We don't sell personal information as the CCPA defines it.",[19,122,124],{"id":123},"changes","Changes",[15,126,127],{},"If this policy changes we'll date the change at the top.",[15,129,130,133,134,137,138,140],{},[26,131,132],{},"Last updated:"," 1 September 2026. ",[26,135,136],{},"Contact:"," ",[109,139,112],{"href":111},".","2026-09-01","What we collect, what we don't, and how to get rid of it. Short version: an email address if you give us one, and nothing else.","md",null,"article",{},"\u002Fprivacy","WebPage",{"title":5,"description":142},"privacy","Privacy Policy | SmallSolarCo","9FdCYLd6A56kMYjMJk0pUxX3zcZV5evzKB-Vt94VgPc",{"id":154,"title":155,"body":156,"description":179,"email":112,"extension":143,"location":180,"meta":181,"name":162,"navigation":7,"path":182,"photo":183,"role":184,"sameAs":144,"seo":185,"stem":186,"__hash__":187},"authors\u002Fauthors\u002Fmike.md","Mike",{"type":9,"value":157},[158,164,167,171,174],[15,159,160,163],{},[26,161,162],{},"Mike Yu"," started SmallSolarCo after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own. He is not an electrician, a solar installer, or a lawyer, and the site says so wherever it matters. He has a background building web products, and built the savings model here himself, using NREL irradiance data and Southern California Edison's published rates.",[15,165,166],{},"Since September 2026 he has been running a plug-in kit on that balcony and logging what it actually produces. Every measured figure on this site comes from that kit. Everything else is labelled as an estimate.",[19,168,170],{"id":169},"editorial-independence","Editorial independence",[15,172,173],{},"We don't accept review units on terms that involve anyone approving the review first. If a manufacturer sends us a kit, we say so on the review, and we keep the right to publish a bad one.",[15,175,176,177,140],{},"Reach him at ",[109,178,112],{"href":111},"Mike Yu started SmallSolarCo after working out that a plug-in panel was the only kind of solar available to him — he rents in Irvine with a west-facing balcony and no roof of his own. 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