Acreage Guide Practical guides for rural homeowners.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026.

Acreage Guide is a simple reading site. We collect as little as possible, and only what you hand us on purpose.

What we collect

Only what you hand us on purpose:

  • Checklist signup (Annual Rural Home Maintenance Checklist page): your email address. We use it to send you the checklist and occasional rural-homeowner tips — nothing else. To stop, reply to any email and you're off the list.
  • “Email me my results” (Well Water Test Interpreter): your email address, plus the results summary shown on the page (parameter names, the values you entered, and their verdicts). Your raw lab PDF and its filename never leave your browser — they are never uploaded or emailed. We send the summary to you and keep a copy as the subscriber record.
  • “Email me my triage summary” (No-Water Triage): your email address, plus the triage summary shown on the page (the steps you took and where you landed). We send the summary to you and keep a copy as the subscriber record.
  • The Rural Homeowner Brief (newsletter signup on the homepage): your email address. We use it to send the monthly brief and nothing else. To stop, reply to any email and you're off the list.
  • “Find a vetted local pro” (demand-test form on select cost and buying guides): your state, county, what you need, and rough timeline — plus your email address only if you choose to leave it. We use this solely to measure demand and, if you left an address, to notify you when vetted pros become available in your area. We never sell or share it, and we never add you to anything else. Ask us to delete your record anytime and we will.

How long we keep email records. Subscriber addresses are kept until you ask us to remove them — reply to any email or use the contact page and you're off the list. Results and triage summaries are kept with the subscriber record; ask us to delete yours anytime and we will.

Signup, results, and triage emails are delivered through Resend, our email sending provider, which processes the addresses and message content needed to deliver them. We don't sell addresses, share them with advertisers, or add you to anything you didn't ask for.

Cookies & analytics

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure traffic in aggregate — page views, referrers, and general device and browser breakdowns. Its beacon sets no cookies and uses no browser storage; we run no other analytics. Cloudflare may set strictly-necessary security cookies when it needs to stop abuse, but we don't use those for tracking.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we'll note the new "last updated" date here. Questions: contact us.