Privacy

I use a small first-party analytics system to understand which pages are useful and how people read them. The results are available only in my private admin dashboard.

What is measured

The system records public page visits, the referring website's domain, approximate country, broad browser, operating system and device categories, and campaign labels such as utm_source. It also measures active reading time, the furthest point reached in an article, outbound-link domains and clicks on this website's download links.

IP addresses and storage

The server receives an IP address as part of a normal web request. Before analytics data is stored, that address is converted to a keyed hash. Raw IP addresses, precise locations, full referring URLs and full browser identification strings are not retained in this analytics system. It uses no analytics cookies, local storage or persistent browser identifiers.

Analytics is stored privately with this website's hosting provider, Vercel. Daily records expire 365 days after their last update. Vercel also processes ordinary hosting and security logs under its own policies.

Your choices

The analytics script respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals from your browser. Visits from signed-in administrators, known bots, private admin pages and unpublished drafts are excluded. No third-party advertising trackers are included.

IP-based counts are approximate: people may share an IP, and one person's IP can change. These statistics are used to understand readership, not to identify individual readers.

For questions, please use the contact links on my homepage.