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Privacy policy
Last updated: October 29, 2026
Who we are
This policy covers https://openguitarchords.com. We are a free reference site for guitar chords, song sheets and lessons.
What we collect
Practically nothing. Open Guitar Chords is a static website: it has no user accounts, no comment database and no form that stores personal data. Your browser makes normal HTTP requests, which any web server logs at a technical level (IP address, user agent, page requested) for security and diagnostics. The page-view counter described below is provided to us by a third-party service and only produces aggregate counts; we do not build user profiles of our own.
Cookies
The site's own pages set no cookies. The analytics script described below does set first-party cookies on this domain; their names and lifetimes are listed there. Some tools keep practice progress or preferences in local storage on this device, and you can remove that by clearing site data in your browser. Your browser may also cache pages and audio files for offline use. Microphone audio is processed in short memory buffers on your device; it is never recorded, saved or uploaded.
Analytics (pvuv.ai, same-origin proxy)
We use pvuv.ai, a third-party analytics service, for page-view counting and bot filtering. The browser loads its script from /pvuv/f.js on this domain and reports to /pvuv/in and /pvuv/v on this domain; our Cloudflare Worker forwards those requests to pvuv.ai, so no third-party domain appears in the page. Each page view sends the page address (we strip the #fragment before forwarding, so settings carried in a tool link stay out), the page that referred you here (kept as your first-touch source), your screen size, your browser language and a random visitor ID. It also records how long a page stayed open, and treats outbound link clicks and file downloads as events (target address only). The service also reads device and browser signals — user agent, screen, time zone, language settings, font and canvas rendering checks, automation flags — to tell bots apart from people; we switched off its motion-sensor sampling and exit-intent tracking. It sets the first-party cookies _pv_id (about 13 months), _pv_sid (one day), _pv_ft (about 13 months) and _pv_v (seven days), and keeps _pv_id in local storage. There is no cross-site advertising profile and we do not enable its ad option. The service does not honour Do Not Track; to opt out, block /pvuv/* with a content blocker or clear this site's cookies and storage. Data is held by pvuv.ai on our behalf and we see aggregate counts only. If we change provider or add advertising, this policy will be updated first.
Your rights
Wherever you are, you have rights over your personal data under laws such as the GDPR and CCPA. We hold no profiles ourselves; the only visitor-level records are the analytics cookies and events described above, held by our analytics provider on our behalf. Contact us through the site's public channels and we will help you exercise those rights.
Contact
Questions about this policy: the contact page lists every channel that reaches us — email and the public issue tracker.