Terms and Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The privacy of my visitors is extremely important. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used.

First and foremost, I will never share your email address or any other personal information to anyone without your direct consent.

Log Files

Like many other websites, this site uses log files to help learn about when, from where, and how often traffic flows to this site. The information in these log files include:

• Internet Protocol addresses (IP)
• Types of browser
• Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Date and time stamp
• Referring and exit pages
• Number of clicks

All of this information is not linked to anything that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

When you visit this site “convenience” cookies are stored on your computer when you submit a comment to help you log in faster to Disqus the next time you leave a comment.

Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. This site has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your web browser options. Instructions for doing so can be found on the specific web browsers’ websites.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool I use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Visitor Map

This site displays a small visitor map showing an aggregate page-view count, a unique-visitor count, and approximate visitor locations. It is self-hosted — a Cloudflare Worker with a database that I control — and it works as follows:

• Your approximate location (city level, derived from your IP address by Cloudflare’s edge network) is recorded so it can appear as a dot on the map. Locations are rounded to roughly an 11 km grid; exact coordinates are never stored or shown.
• Your raw IP address is never stored. To count unique visitors without identifying you, only a one-way salted hash of your IP address and browser user-agent is kept; it cannot be reversed back into your IP address.
• The visitor map sets no cookies, and its data is not shared with any third party.