Privacy

This site has no accounts, no sign-up or contact forms and no advertising. Its fonts load from Google Fonts, which sees your IP address when your browser fetches them.

We count visits with DataFast, an analytics service. Its script records the pages you view, the site that sent you, your browser and device type and your approximate location, and DataFast receives your IP address to do that. It sets two cookies on this site, datafast_visitor_id and datafast_session_id, so a return visit or a visit to several pages counts once. When you click a phone number, the click is recorded with the page's state and service. We use these counts to see which pages people read and how many visitors call. They don't tell us who you are.

We also run UserProof's script, which shows us where readers get stuck. It records clicks and taps with the first 50 characters of the clicked text, scrolling, text you select (up to 200 characters), moves between pages and script errors, and UserProof receives your IP address when your browser sends these. It keeps a random visitor ID in your browser's local storage and a session ID in its session storage, not in cookies. It skips password fields and the parts of a page marked to be left out, including the address lookup's form and result.

The soil type by address lookup sends the address you type from your browser to the Census Bureau's geocoder, and the point it returns to USDA's Soil Data Access. Neither request goes through this site.

Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested, for security and operations.

If a page shows a phone number and you call it, the call goes to the company named next to the number, which handles the call under its own terms. We don't receive your recordings, and we don't sell or share information about you.

Updated October 31, 2026. If this page changes, the date changes with it.