Privacy Policy

By Haverlane Editorial Team · Published Aug 24, 2026 · Reviewed per our editorial policy

Effective August 24, 2026.

Haverlane writes about plumbing in mobile and manufactured homes, and writing is the entire job here. No wrenches, no service truck, no license number. The phone line printed across the site hands a caller to a licensed plumbing partner who works on manufactured housing, and a booked job can earn Haverlane a referral fee that never lands in the price you are quoted. A publication built that way holds very little about anybody. The list below is all of it.

Every record, in one table

Opening an article

Loading a page writes a single line into an ordinary server log: the address that asked, the clock time, the file path handed back, the response code, and the browser identification string that rode along. Hosting works this way everywhere. Those lines keep the site upright and make abusive traffic visible. Nothing attaches a name to them, because nothing on the site ever asks for one.

Someone can read three articles about a 30 gallon versus 40 gallon mobile home water heater, compare heat tape wattage, and study a crossover line diagram for an hour. The whole visit leaves behind those log lines and not one thing more.

Four things this site simply does not have

• Cookies. Nothing here plants one. No ad network, social widget or third party measurement tag gets loaded next to the writing.
• Accounts. There is no sign in, so no profile and no stored reading history exist either.
• Forms. No quote box, no name field, no email capture, no comment thread. You are never invited to type anything.
• A newsletter. There is no list to join, which means no pile of addresses sits anywhere waiting to leak.

Why the call button can name your town

A single small script runs on each page. Once the page has loaded, it asks a tiny endpoint on this same domain for the rough location that the content delivery edge already derived from your network connection: city, state, country, and nothing finer. Coarse is the honest word for it. That is the town your connection appears to leave from, which is regularly the next town over from where your home is parked. It is not GPS, not a lot number, not a street.

The answer does exactly one job. Wording such as "licensed mobile home plumbers in your area" becomes a line that names a real place, so you can see at a glance whether calling is worth your time. The result parks in the browser tab's session storage, it vanishes when the tab is closed, the endpoint is instructed never to be cached anywhere, and no copy of it travels back for storage.

Counting, and where the counting stops

Measurement stops at page views. On the date this policy takes effect, no analytics tool loads on the site whatsoever. Should one be added later, its job is limited to tallying visits through Google Analytics 4: which articles were opened, phone or laptop, and a state sized region. Google places cookies of its own under Google's terms, and the reports coming back describe traffic totals rather than a reader with a name and a history. The date at the top of this page moves on the day that changes.

What a privacy signal from your browser does

Global Privacy Control counts. A GPC header riding along with a request that can be linked to an identifiable person is treated as an opt out already filed, covering sale and sharing both, and you are not asked for anything further. Do Not Track meets a quieter situation: no cookie lives on this domain to switch off, and no code here trails a reader onto the next website, so the site was already doing what the header asks.

The moment you dial

That number routes calls. Dialing hands the routing service, and then the plumbing company that picks up, three facts: the line you called from, when the call started and how long it ran, and the destination it reached, marked as a qualified referral or not. Recording or live monitoring for billing and quality checks can happen where state law allows it, done by the routing service or by the company answering. If your state calls for an announcement first, you hear one before anybody starts talking.

The plumber's file belongs to the plumber

After the connection is made, the conversation is yours and theirs. The year and brand of the home, whether the heater sits behind an exterior door or in a hall closet, the community and space where the home is set, the schedule, the deposit, the card: all of that is collected by that licensed company under its own privacy practices. None of it reaches Haverlane, and nobody here will ask you for a payment method. The page called how we make money names who pays the referral fee and marks its limit: the fee buys a phone connection, never a recommendation and never a markup on your invoice.

The word "sale" as California uses it

California writes "sale" and "sharing" wide. Passing a caller's number along to a partner that compensates Haverlane for a booked job can land inside those definitions, even where nothing resembling a mailing list ever changes hands. Reading an article does not. Two doors lead out of it: leave the phone number alone, or file an opt out at the email address below. Reader data reaches no data broker, and this domain carries no advertising network of any kind.

How long any of it lives

Server log lines age out of the hosting platform on a quick rotation, archived nowhere else. The city string never outlives the browser tab that fetched it. Referral records last as long as billing, a dispute window, and tax or audit duties require, then they go. Nothing is held on to because it might be interesting one day.

Sending a request

Email is the only road in. Write to hello@haverlane.com with the words "privacy request" near the top of the message. The phone line belongs to partner plumbers, not to anyone handling this site, so nothing said on a call becomes a privacy request; put it in writing and it lands where it is actually handled.

Confirming a request really comes from you usually means checking the number you supply against what sits in the call log, because it is frequently the only identifier on hand. An agent acting for you needs your written authorization. Replies leave inside whatever deadline your state's statute names. Asking costs you nothing: the articles, the routing and the price a plumber quotes stay exactly as they were.

What a California resident can demand

California's privacy law, the CCPA with its CPRA amendments, gives residents six moves:

1. Ask which categories of personal information exist about you, and receive a copy.
2. Order that information erased, within the exceptions the law keeps in place.
3. Get a wrong entry corrected.
4. Opt out of the sale or sharing described two sections above.
5. Cap what may be done with sensitive personal information, an easy promise here, since no such category is gathered.
6. Face no penalty for having asked.

The state Attorney General publishes the statute in full for anyone who wants the original language.

Readers in other states

Comprehensive privacy statutes now cover a growing share of the country, and several of them hand residents extra moves, including an appeal when a request gets turned down. Working out which statute is yours is not your problem. Write in, mention where you live, describe what you want done, and whatever your state grants is honored through the same address.

Nobody under 16

The audience here is adults who own, rent, buy or repair manufactured homes. Information about a reader under 16 is not knowingly collected at any point. Should a call have left a minor's details in the referral records, write in and they come out.

When this page is edited

Material edits appear here in plain sentences, with the effective date at the top reset to match. Nothing gets rewritten on the quiet. Rules for using the site live in the terms of use, reporting a barrier is covered by the accessibility statement, and the way articles are sourced, reviewed and corrected sits in the editorial policy.