Privacy.

Who runs this site

This is the personal website of Gabriel Mongefranco, based in Michigan, USA. He is responsible for how the site handles your information. For anything on this page, use the contact form.

What the site collects

Server logs. The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare records basic technical details for each request, such as your IP address, the page you asked for, and the time. Cloudflare uses these logs to run and protect the service. Cloudflare's own privacy policy describes how it handles them.

Analytics, unless you opt out. The site uses Google Analytics to learn which pages people read and roughly where visitors come from. It runs by default, so the first page you open is counted. A bar at the bottom of the page lets you choose Opt out. After that, the site sends nothing more to Google and removes the analytics cookies. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, the site treats that as an opt-out and does not ask.

The contact form. The contact page embeds a Google Form. When you send a message, Google stores your answers in a form owned by Gabriel and handles them under Google's privacy policy. Gabriel uses your name, reply address, and message only to answer you.

Nothing else. The site has no accounts, no comments, and no newsletter. Site search runs in your browser, so your search terms stay on your device. Fonts and images are served from this site.

What analytics records

Unless you opt out, Google Analytics sets cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by an identifier. They give your browser a random ID, so Google can tell repeat visits from new ones. Google receives the pages you view, the time, the type of device and browser, the approximate region based on your IP address, and the site that referred you. Google truncates IP addresses before storing analytics data. Advertising features are turned off, so this data is not used to show you ads.

Google Analytics keeps this data for no more than 14 months and then deletes it. Google describes how it handles this data in its privacy policy and its Analytics data practices.

Why this data is used

Gabriel uses analytics to see which pages people find useful. Cloudflare uses server logs to keep the site running and secure. Gabriel uses contact form messages only to reply to you.

Your choices and rights

You can opt out of analytics, or opt back in, at any time with the button below. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser, or install Google's opt-out browser add-on. The site works the same way after you opt out.

To ask what information is held about you, or to have it corrected or deleted, use the contact form. Google Analytics data is held under a random identifier, so Gabriel cannot link it to you by name. Clearing your browser's cookies for this site ends the link to past visits.

Children

This site is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect information about them.

Changes

When this page changes, Gabriel updates the date below. Larger changes, such as a new tool that collects information, are also described here.