Privacy
What this site collects, and what happens to it.
Short, because the site does little. There is a contact form, there are visit statistics from Google Analytics, and there is no advertising.
The contact form
If you use the contact form, it collects your name, your email address, your message, whether you would like a call, and which page you started from. That last one is so a reply knows what you were reading. If you ask for a call, you get an automatic email with a link to book a time on my Google calendar.
Alongside your message the site stores a hashed version of your IP address (not the address itself), the page you came from and your browser type, used only to spot spam.
Two fields exist that you never see: a hidden field a person leaves empty and a robot fills in, and the time the page was drawn. Both are there to refuse automated spam, and neither is about you.
The contact page also uses Google reCAPTCHA to tell people from robots. There is no puzzle to solve; it runs in the background. To do that, Google collects information about your device and how you use the page, such as your IP address, browser details and cookies it sets, and when you send the form this site passes Google the result and your IP address to check it. reCAPTCHA loads on the contact page only, not on the rest of the site. Its use is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
What happens to it: it is stored on this site's own hosting and emailed to me. It is not sent to a marketing platform, added to a mailing list, or shared with anyone. I reply, and that is the whole of it.
Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics 4 on every page to count visits and see which pages get read. It sets cookies in your browser so it can recognize a returning visit, and reports things like page views, approximate region, the site that sent you and your device type. I do not use it to identify anyone or build a profile of anyone. Google's handling of this data is described in Google's privacy policy.
If you would rather not be counted, blocking cookies or using a tracker-blocking extension stops it, and nothing on the site behaves differently as a result.
What this site does not do
- No advertising. No ad network, no ad cookies, nothing sold on this site at all. The build refuses to ship if that changes without this page changing with it.
- No other cookies. The only cookies here are Google Analytics' and, on the contact page only, Google reCAPTCHA's, both described above.
- No newsletter and no tracking pixels. Nothing here is trying to follow you off the page.
Videos are embedded from YouTube and load only when you click one, so YouTube learns nothing about you unless you choose to play something. At that point their terms apply rather than mine.
Asking me about your data
Ask, and I will tell you what I hold or delete it. There is not much: if you have never used the contact form, I hold nothing that identifies you.