Privacy and cookies

If you click Allow, Google Analytics records which pages you open, how long you stay on them, roughly where you are (country and city, from your IP address), your device, browser and screen size, and the site that sent you here.

It also counts a few actions that tell us which features are useful: using a free tool (chord finder, metronome, capo), playing a chord on the circle of fifths, and copying the embed code. These events carry no personal details.

Until you choose, GuitStart loads nothing from Google and sets no cookie. If you click Allow, Google Analytics sets its own cookies (named _ga) to tell one visit from the next. If you click No thanks, nothing is loaded.

Your choice is kept in your browser for twelve months, then we ask again.

If you switch to the dark theme, GuitStart keeps that choice in a cookie named theme so the next visit opens dark. It stays in your browser, is not sent to Google and is not used for analytics.

We have turned on Google signals. For visitors who are signed in to Google and have allowed ad personalisation in their Google account, Google adds estimated age group, gender and interests to our reports, as totals only. We never see who you are, and we do not show ads.

You can switch this off for every site in your Google account settings, under Data and privacy, then Personalised ads.

GuitStart has no accounts, no forms and no ads. Every sound is synthesised in your browser; nothing you play leaves your device. We do not sell data or share it with anyone except Google, which processes it for us.

Click Cookie settings at the bottom of any page to see the question again. Choosing No thanks after allowing removes the Google Analytics cookies GuitStart set and stops further counting.