Privacy policy
What we collect, why, and who else sees it. Written in plain English. Last updated November 13, 2026.
The short version
- You can read Orange Wire without an account and without giving us your email. We don't set tracking cookies ourselves.
- We only collect your email address if you sign up for the newsletter.
- We never sell or rent your information to anyone.
Visitor statistics
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and see which stories people read. It does not use cookies, does not build a profile of you and does not follow you across other websites. We only see totals, such as how many people visited a page and roughly which country they came from.
Our website is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes basic technical information such as your IP address so it can deliver pages and block attacks.
The newsletter
If you subscribe to Orange Wire Weekly, we collect your email address. Our newsletter service, beehiiv, stores it and sends the emails for us. beehiiv also records whether emails are delivered, opened and clicked, which helps us see what readers find useful. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect right away. You can also email us to have your address deleted.
The signup form on our pages is loaded from beehiiv. When it loads, beehiiv and the services it uses to block spam may set cookies and see technical details such as your IP address. The form itself loads fonts from Google Fonts and a Google Tag Manager script, so Google can see your IP address when it loads. beehiiv's own handling of your data is described in beehiiv's privacy policy.
Things stored only in your browser
The spend log on the Live on Bitcoin page is saved in your own browser's storage, on your device. It is never sent to us.
Site search runs in your browser. The search index comes from our site, and your search words are never sent to us or anyone else. The inheritance kit works the same way: what you type stays in that browser tab and is gone when you close it. If you hide the "New to Bitcoin?" strip on the home page, your browser remembers that choice; nothing is sent to us.
You can clear the spend log and the strip setting any time by clearing your browser's site data.
Live prices and data
The price ticker and tools load live data straight from public sources: bitcoin prices from Coinbase, network data from mempool.space (also on the Mining, Fees and Halving pages), the Fear & Greed index from alternative.me, and company bitcoin holdings from CoinGecko (on the Treasuries page). When your browser loads that data, those services see your IP address, as with any website. We don't send them anything else about you.
If you add Orange Wire to your home screen, your device keeps copies of pages you've opened so they still load on a weak signal. Those copies stay on your device; nothing about them is sent to us.
The fonts on our pages are stored on our own site, not loaded from Google.
Some Learn pages and the Events pages include YouTube videos. Until you press play, we show only a still image from YouTube's image server. Loading that image lets YouTube (Google) see your IP address. When you press play, the video loads in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). From then on, YouTube may store cookies or similar data on your device. YouTube's own privacy policy applies to what it collects.
Links to other sites
We link to news sources, our social accounts (X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Telegram and Nostr) and other websites. Once you leave Orange Wire, that site's own privacy policy applies.
Widgets on other sites. Our free widgets (/embed/) set no cookies. When another site shows one, Cloudflare, our host, sees the reader's IP address and our cookie-free Cloudflare Web Analytics counts the view. The widget's live price comes from Coinbase and the block height from mempool.space, which also see the reader's IP address.
Affiliate links and tips. Any link that pays us is labeled “Affiliate link”. When you click one, the company or its affiliate network may set a cookie that credits us if you buy. We see that a sale was made and its amount, never your name or contact details. If you tip us over Lightning, the payment goes through our wallet provider. We see the amount, any note you add and any name your wallet chooses to share. A Nostr zap also shows us, and anyone on Nostr, which account sent it. See Disclosures.
The shop
Shop orders are made and shipped by Printful. When you tap Buy now, you check out on our store hosted by Printful (orangewire.printful.me), not on this website. Printful collects what it needs to make and deliver your order: your name, email address, shipping address and order details. Payments are processed by Stripe, and we never see your full card number.
We can see your order details, such as the items, your name and shipping address, in our Printful account so we can help with questions, problems and returns. We don't use them for anything else and never sell them.
Printful's handling of your data is described in Printful's privacy policy.
Children
Orange Wire is not aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.
Your choices and contact
To ask what we hold about you, correct it or delete it, email hello@orangewirebtc.com. If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.