Full disclosure
Last updated October 12, 2026. What we collect, what we don’t, and the things most sites bury. If anything here is unclear, tell us and we’ll fix the page.
The short version. We don’t track you. There are no analytics, no ads, and nothing on this site comes from anyone else’s server — not even fonts. The only cookie we set remembers if you picked light or dark mode, and only if you click the button. The Mix lab runs in your browser and sends nothing. If you use the contact form, we do collect some technical details along with your message. That part is worth reading.
1. What the contact form collects
When you press send, two sets of details go along with your message. Nothing is collected when the page just loads. We think you should know exactly what they are, because most contact forms do this quietly and never say so.
Read from your connection (dependable)
Our host tells us these about the message itself. They can’t be faked from your end, and we never read them out of what you typed:
| What | Why it’s there |
|---|---|
| IP address | Shows roughly where a message came from, and lets us block a source if we get flooded with spam. |
| City, state, country, ZIP area | A rough guess based on the IP, not your device’s location. It’s often off by quite a bit. |
| Timezone | So we don’t reply at three in the morning your time. |
| Internet provider | Which provider or company network the message came through. |
| Data center | Which of our host’s data centers handled it. Only useful for fixing problems. |
| Timestamp | When it arrived, in UTC. |
Reported by your browser (take with salt)
Your browser offers these up on its own. You can change or turn off any of them, and nothing breaks if you do:
| What | Why it’s there |
|---|---|
| Device type, platform, browser | If you tell us something looks broken, this saves a round of “what are you using?” |
| Screen and window size | Same reason. Most “it looks wrong” reports get solved by this one line. |
| Timezone and UTC offset | Double-checks the one above. |
| Languages | So we reply in one you read. |
| CPU cores, memory, touch support | Context if you’re telling us something is slow. |
| Referring page | How you found us. Blank if you typed the address. |
| User agent string | The long version of the browser line. |
Being straight with you
Put together, that’s a fairly clear picture of your computer. We collect it because it helps us answer faster, and because it helps us tell a real person from the steady drip of spam. We’re not going to pretend it’s nothing.
Your message arrives as an email in one inbox. A copy is also saved as one row in a private Google Sheet owned by that same account, so messages are easy to find later. You get an automatic “we got it” email from that account too. We don’t build a profile from any of it. We don’t sell it or share it. Ask us to delete your message and we will, and we’ll tell you when it’s done.
If you’d rather not send any of that, email us directly instead. The address is on the front page, next to the form. A regular email carries only what your own mail app sends, which is a lot less.
2. Cookies and storage
- Light or dark mode. Click the button and we save your choice in your browser, plus a cookie that lasts a year. Never touch the button and we never save it.
- The opening animation. We remember, for this visit only, that you already saw it, so it doesn’t play again on every page. That uses your browser’s session storage. It isn’t a cookie, it never leaves your computer, and it’s gone when you close the tab.
That’s the whole list. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, no session recording.
3. The Mix lab
The Mix lab runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you pick is sent anywhere or saved. If you press “Pitch this mix,” it only copies your idea into the contact form. Nothing is sent until you press send yourself.
4. How we use AI
An AI helper wrote most of the first draft of this website. A person reviewed every line. The “How we built this” section on the front page says who did what, and where the AI got it wrong.
Your messages are read by a person. We don’t paste them into outside AI tools.
5. Things worth saying
- No brands. Everything named on this site is a general kind of thing, like “the smartwatch,” not anyone’s product. There are no sponsors, no ads and no affiliate links.
- “Already a thing” is our best guess. The Mix lab labels are what we knew in October 2026. New things come out all the time, so some “not a thing yet” answers will go out of date. Tell us when one does.
- The blue and pink are a wink. They poke fun at an old rule. They aren’t a statement about anyone. Anybody can like any color, and anybody can mix anything.
- The numbers on the front page describe the idea, not measured results. “Two things in every mix” is just how a mix works.
- Who runs this. MixYZ is a small project run by John G.
6. Getting in touch about this page
Corrections, deletion requests, or a question about anything above — use the contact form or email us directly. A person will answer.