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Privacy This site barely wants to know who you are
Plenty of sites work hard to remember you and follow you around, the better to aim ads. We go the other way: this site barely wants to know who you are. You come, you read, you leave, and we neither need nor intend to piece together a profile of "you". This page spells out what the site does with your data, and what it doesn't.
This is a static education site
Wayfare is a static education site. At heart it's a stack of finished pages sitting there for you to read. There's no login, no account, no comment box, and no form that asks you to submit any personal details. You don't need to register, and there's nothing to register for; we haven't built an account or a profile for you.
We don't collect your sensitive information
Keep this one in mind and relax: the site does not collect your passwords, 2FA codes, private keys, seed phrases, or anything else of that kind. No page of ours will ever ask you for them. If a page claiming to be this site ever asks you to enter a password or a seed phrase, that is not us, so close it at once. Anything that genuinely touches your account happens only on the other company's official page, which you reach on your own.
No ad-tracking cookies
This site sets no third-party cookies for ad tracking, doesn't sell your browsing to ad networks, and takes no part in cross-site tracking. We don't make money by "knowing you better", so we have no reason to watch what you read or how long you linger.
Visitor analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to see how it's being read: which pages are opened, where visitors arrive from, roughly which country or region, and whether it's a phone or a computer. GA4 stores its own cookies in your browser (their names start with _ga) so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one. We look at the totals to decide which guides are useful and which need work; we don't use it for advertising or to identify anyone.
This analytics data also goes to Google. According to Google's own explanation, Google uses information it receives from sites that use its services to deliver and improve its own services, measure how well ads work, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalise content and ads depending on your Google settings. In other words, we don't use the data for advertising ourselves, but what happens on Google's side is governed by Google's rules and your Google settings. If you don't want Google to use this kind of information for personalised ads, you can turn personalised ads off in Google's Ad Settings.
If you'd rather not be counted, the simplest way is the button below: click it once and this browser stops sending analytics on every page of the site from then on, and any _ga cookies already set are deleted. Click it again to turn counting back on. If you switch browser or device, or clear your browsing data, you'll need to click it again. You can also block cookies in your browser or install Google's Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
Separately from GA4, the site is delivered through a content delivery network, and at that step the provider attaches a page-view counter of its own. It sets no cookies, and what it records is how often a page is opened and roughly which country or region the visit came from. It arrives with the delivery layer, and we don't use it to work out who anyone is. It's written down here because you would see it in the page source, and a privacy note that leaves it out isn't a complete one.
The fonts on these pages are loaded from Google Fonts. When a page opens, your browser requests the font files from Google's servers, so Google receives your IP address and browser details; how Google treats those requests is set out in the Google Fonts privacy FAQ.
If you have questions about how data is handled, or want to exercise any related right, email wayfare@wayfaremoney.com.
After you head off to a third party
Once you click a referral sign-up link in our text and head, in a new tab, to the official page of a third party such as an exchange, your activity on their site is governed by their privacy policy, no longer covered by this note. What they collect and how they use it is set by the privacy terms on their own page. Those external links open in a new tab and are labelled in the text as referral links, so it's clear you're leaving this site.
Update note: Rewritten 2026-09-25 when Google Analytics 4 was added back; 2026-10-02 added the note on Google Fonts; 2026-10-13 added a one-click button in the analytics section to stop being counted, and set out how Google uses this analytics data.