Your privacy
Cookies
This website does not use any JavaScript or Cookies to track you.
I don't use Google Analytics, Facebook or any other third party tracking scripts.
Some pages on the website may use cookies to save information about a specific
activity on that page. Whenever that happens, the page will tell you clearly what the
cookie is for and give you a chance to reject it.
If you have accepted a cookie and no longer want it, you'll have to manually delete
it from your browser.
Browser information
Some of my pages (like Shining Star) have forms that let you send information to the server.
Some of these forms combine your IP address and your browser's User Agent to generate an ID that
uniquely identifies you. The ID is usually there to stop you from repeatly sending information
to the server, but it can be used for other things.
Whenever that happens, it will be displayed explicitly in the form before you submit it.
Update 16-12-2020: I recently discovered that, as part of their service,
my hosting provider keeps a log of each request made to the server. A request happens when
your browser loads a page, an image file or some other data.
For each request, the following information is stored:
- Your IP address.
- Your browser's user agent.
- The URL of the item requested.
- The request method ("GET" for normal pages, "POST" when sending form data).
- The response code (200 on a good day)
Sorry if this makes you uncomfortable, but I can't really turn this feature off.
Pretty much every single website on the internet does this and the log doesn't contain
any personal information.
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Google Search Console
I use Google Search Console to measure how many people reach my page through Google searches.
Search Console also gives me information about what search terms were used
and which pages might be linking to my website.
I don't get any of your personal browsing activity from there.
Federated Learning of Cohorts
Recently, Google has implemented a system known as "Federated Learning of Cohorts" (FLoC) into some
versions of Google Chrome. This system uses your browser history to learn about your browsing behaviour
so that they can send you targeted ads. Learn more about it here:
https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc.
My website sends browsers an explicit header indicating that I do not want them to track you while you
are on my website. Whether they honor that request or not is anyone's guess.
These days companies are tracking you more than ever. Do whatever you can to prevent them from doing it.