Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how SoothglAss (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information about visitors (“you”) to https://sg.shps.co.za (the “Site”). The Site is a collection of free informational tools operated from Texas, United States. It has no user accounts, no contact forms, and no chat features — there is very little to collect, and that is by design.
By using the Site, you agree to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.
Who is responsible for your data
The operator responsible for the Site is:
SoothglAss
Texas, United States
Although the Site uses a .co.za domain name, it is operated from the United
States and is not established in, or operated from, South Africa.
Information we collect
We collect only the minimal technical information needed to run the Site and protect it from abuse. The Site has no accounts, forms, chat features, or other ways for you to submit personal information to us, and we do not sell personal information or use it for advertising or behavioral tracking.
2.1 Information collected automatically
To operate the Site securely, detect abuse, and rate-limit requests, we automatically collect limited technical information when you use the Site's interactive features (such as pages that load live data):
- A truncated IP address (only the network portion — the first three
octets, i.e. a
/24prefix). Your full IP address is not stored by us. - Timestamps of the request
- Signals used to detect automated or abusive traffic
When you visit the Site's homepage, our infrastructure derives your approximate region from your network connection, solely to send you to the page most relevant to your location. This routing happens in the moment of the request and the region is not stored by us.
Some non-essential assets — such as brand icons, logos, and script libraries — may be loaded by your browser from third-party content delivery or asset providers. When your browser requests those assets, those providers may receive technical request data such as IP address, user-agent, referrer, request URL, and request time. These assets are used to display content and provide page functionality, not for targeted advertising or behavioral tracking.
2.2 Cookies and similar technologies
The Site is designed to operate without cookies:
- We do not set advertising, analytics, or behavioral-tracking cookies.
- Our infrastructure provider may set strictly necessary security cookies to protect the Site from automated abuse. These are functional in nature and are not used to track you across other websites.
The Site does not permit third parties to collect personally identifiable information about your online activities across different websites, and it does not respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals.
If analytics or other non-essential cookies are added in the future, a consent banner will be shown where required, and this Policy will be updated.
How we use your information
We use the information described above to:
- Operate, maintain, and secure the Site
- Route you to the page most relevant to your location
- Prevent, detect, and investigate spam, scraping, fraud, and other abuse
- Apply rate limits to keep the Site available for everyone
- Comply with legal obligations
Service providers we share data with
We do not sell your personal information and we share it only with the limited service providers that make the Site function:
- A cloud infrastructure provider — provides hosting, serverless functions, database and key-value storage, and anti-abuse protection. This provider processes data on globally distributed infrastructure.
This provider processes data on our behalf and is not permitted to use it for its own purposes. We may also disclose information if required by law, to enforce the Site's terms, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of ourselves or others.
How we protect your information
We take reasonable technical measures to protect your information, including storing only a truncated IP prefix rather than your full IP address, validating and rate-limiting requests, and restricting any administrative access behind authentication. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Selling, advertising, and profiling
We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for targeted advertising or profiling.
Children's privacy
The Site is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction). The Site's informational content concerns products that are restricted to adults.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected on this page. Your continued use of the Site after an update means you accept the revised Policy.