Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Claudeheads is an independent, non-commercial, fan-run directory of educational resources about Claude and AI tools generally. It is operated by the individual or small team reachable at [email protected]. For the purposes of the UK GDPR and EU GDPR, that operator is the data controller for the very limited processing described here.

We are not Anthropic and we are not connected to Anthropic. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by or officially connected to Anthropic PBC, nor to any of the creators, channels, companies or tools it links to. If you have a privacy question about Claude itself, or about a site we link to, that question belongs to them and not to us — this policy only covers claudeheads.com.

2. What we do not do

To be specific, this site does not:

• ask you to create an account or log in;
• contain any contact, comment or search form — the guestbook in section 6 is the one form on the site, and using it is entirely optional;
• set any cookies of its own;
• run any analytics package — there is no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no Meta pixel and no equivalent;
• run advertising or serve ads from any network;
• use affiliate, referral or commission links — every outbound link points directly at the destination with no tracking parameters attached;
• embed comment widgets, social buttons or share trackers;
• load a video player, or anything else from a third party, before you ask for it — see section 3;
• build a profile of you, or sell, rent or share data about you.

3. Video thumbnails, channel art and the video player

Two things on this site are served by Google rather than by us, and both are worth being plain about.

Thumbnails and channel artwork. Video tiles and some creator cards show images loaded directly from YouTube's image servers (i.ytimg.com and yt3.googleusercontent.com). Loading an image sends your IP address and browser user-agent to Google. It does not set a cookie, and we receive nothing from it. Requests are sent with a “no-referrer” policy where we can set one, so Google is not told which page you were on.

The video player. Clicking a video tile opens a player in a window on this page instead of sending you to YouTube. The player is only loaded at that moment — nothing from YouTube's player is requested until you deliberately click one — and it is removed again when you close the window. We use theyoutube-nocookie.com variant, which does not set YouTube's tracking cookies simply on load. Once you press play, YouTube may store data on your device under its own privacy policy, the same as it would on youtube.com. If you would rather not have that at all, every player has an “Open on YouTube instead” link, and holding cmd or ctrl while clicking any tile skips the embedded player entirely.

4. Information stored on your own device

The site remembers three display preferences using your browser's local storage. These are not cookies, they are never transmitted to us or to anyone else, and they never leave your device:

• claudeheads-colorway — which of the two visual themes you last chose (Classic or '98).
• claudeheads-sound — whether you switched the retro music player on or off.
• claudeheads-motion — whether you asked us to reduce animation.

Because this storage exists solely to deliver a preference you explicitly asked for, it falls within the “strictly necessary” exemption in the ePrivacy Directive and does not require a consent banner. You can erase all three at any time by clearing site data for this domain in your browser settings; the site will simply return to its default appearance.

5. Server logs and hosting

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like essentially every web server on the internet, the hosting infrastructure automatically records standard technical request data — including your IP address, the page requested, a timestamp, and your browser's user-agent string — for the purposes of delivering the page, diagnosing faults and protecting against abuse and denial-of-service attacks.

We do not use these logs to identify or track individual visitors, we do not combine them with any other data, and we do not use them for analytics or marketing. The lawful basis for this processing under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and functioning website. Retention is governed by the hosting provider's own standard practice.

6. The guestbook

The guestbook is the only place on this site where you can send us anything, and only if you choose to. If you sign it, we store what you typed: the handle, location, homepage link and message you entered. Please treat all four as public — that is the point of a guestbook — and do not put anything in them you would not want a stranger to read.

Nothing appears until a human approves it. Entries are held for review and published, rejected or edited for typos by us; nothing a visitor types goes live automatically.

Two anti-abuse measures apply to that form. Your IP address is never stored. We keep only a salted SHA-256 hash of it, which lets us apply a rate limit and block a repeat abuser, and is of no use to anyone who obtains a copy of the database. The form is also protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-preserving alternative to a CAPTCHA that does not profile you across sites; loading it discloses your IP address to Cloudflare, who are also our host, and it runs only on the guestbook page.

Want an entry gone? Ask, and it goes — see submissions and takedowns.

7. If you email us

If you choose to email us — to suggest a resource, correct a listing, ask for something to be taken down, or be told when the newsletter launches — we receive your email address and whatever you put in the message, and we keep it for as long as needed to deal with your request and to keep a record of it. We will not add you to any mailing list without you asking, and we will not use your address for anything other than replying to you. What to send, and what happens next, is set out in section 5 of the terms.

8. Links to other websites

Claudeheads is, by design, mostly a set of links to other people's websites, YouTube channels and tools — none of whom we are affiliated with. Once you follow one of those links you are on someone else's property and this policy no longer applies. Those destinations will have their own privacy practices, and many of them absolutely do use cookies, analytics and advertising. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for what they do with your data. We encourage you to read their policies.

9. Your rights

If you are in the UK, the European Economic Area, or a jurisdiction with comparable law, you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to and port your personal data, and to complain to your national supervisory authority. If you are a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA gives you rights to know, delete, correct and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.

In practice, exercising most of these rights against Claudeheads will be a short conversation: aside from server logs held by our host, anything you typed into the guestbook, and any email you have voluntarily sent us, we do not hold personal data about you. We have never sold or shared personal information, and we do not do so now. If you would like to make a request anyway, write to [email protected] and we will respond within one month.

10. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

We honour these signals by default, in the sense that there is no tracking on this site to switch off. No behaviour changes because none needs to.

11. Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Since we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, this is largely a formality, but if you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

If we ever add something that changes the picture above — analytics, a contact form, a newsletter platform — we will update this page and change the “last updated” date before that feature goes live, not after. If a future change involves collecting personal data in a way that requires your consent, we will ask for it properly rather than burying it here.