What is collected
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits. It records which pages were opened,
which site or search you arrived from, your browser and device type, and an approximate
region. IP addresses are anonymised before they are stored, so the full address is not
kept.
Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser to tell one visit from the next. They are
named _ga and _ga_ followed by a property identifier.
The site also loads the Meta Pixel, a script from Meta, the company behind Facebook and
Instagram. It reports which pages you open here, and when the contact form is used it
reports that a message was sent, though not what it said. It sets a cookie named
_fbp. Meta can connect this to a Facebook or Instagram account if you are
signed in, and uses it to measure and target advertising under
its own privacy policy.
Clicks on buttons and email links are counted in Google Analytics by which button was
clicked. Nothing you type into a form is sent to either tool.
Who else can see it
Google processes the analytics data, and Google also hosts the site through Firebase
Hosting, which keeps ordinary server logs of requests. Meta receives the pixel data
described above. Nobody else receives anything.
If you get in touch
The contact page links out to a form hosted by Google. Nothing is embedded here, so that
form only receives anything if you choose to open it and submit it. What you write there
goes to Google and to me. Emailing directly is the alternative, and that reaches only me.
Either way, what you send is kept so I can reply to it, and used for nothing else.
What does not happen
Your information is not sold or rented, and what you send through the contact form or
by email is never passed on. There are no embedded third-party players on any page, and
no profile is built about you here. What Meta does with pixel data on its own platforms
is governed by Meta's policy, not this one.
Turning measurement off
Blocking cookies for this site in your browser settings stops both sets of cookies.
Most content blockers and privacy-focused browsers already block Google Analytics and
the Meta Pixel outright. Google also publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of
Google Analytics everywhere, at
tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
If you use Facebook or Instagram, the activity from other websites and apps that Meta
uses for ads can be reviewed and disconnected in your Meta account settings.
The site works exactly the same either way. Nothing here depends on being measured.
Asking about your data
You can email me to ask what is held about you, to have it deleted, or to ask anything
else about this page. Write to
joey.caughey@gmail.com and I will answer.
Changes
If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is
updated.