Privacy

I value your privacy—a lot of companies say this, but what they really mean is usually “We value your privacy, but not as much as we value the money we make from violating it”.

However, I have zero interest in collecting personal information about website visitors, much less monetizing it. Personal information should be treated as a liability, not an asset.

Tracking

To get some kind of idea whether people like my content or not (because I’m vain like that) I use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service. It doesn’t leave cookies (see Cookie Policy), save IP addresses or use any other means of tracking—every visit is completely anonymous. It’s basically a Geocities hit counter on steroids.

If you want to know more, here’s an introductory post about Cloudflare Web Analytics: https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-first-web-analytics/

Here’s an overview of Cloudflare Web Analytics: https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/

Cookie Policy

You might have noticed that this website doesn’t have any cookie consent pop-ups. This is not due to any omission on my part—it’s because this website doesn’t use cookies.

Email Newsletter

I have an email newsletter where I send out updates from this blog and other things I think my readers might find interesting (if you like the content on this site you should consider subscribing!). Out of necessity, this means collecting e-mail addresses, which counts as personal information.

If you want to sign up for my newsletter here are a couple things you should know:

• I use MailChimp for collecting email addresses and sending emails, which means your email will be stored and processed on their servers. Please see MailChimp’s Privacy Policy if you want more information about how they store your email address.
• Your email address will be stored exclusively for the purpose of sending you news, offers and other relevant content. Except for being processed by MailChimp (as per above) it will not be shared by any other third party.
• You can opt out of the newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in the email footer.