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Analytics & Privacy Notice

Last updated: June 2026

This is a personal author website run by Jonah Baird. It uses analytics tools to understand how people find and use the site. This page explains what those tools collect, why, and what they do not collect.

What this site collects

When you visit a page, the analytics tools listed below may record:

Which page you visited and when
What country or region you are in (city-level location is not used)
What device type, browser, and operating system you are using
How you arrived — search engine, direct link, referral site, or social media
Whether you clicked an outbound link (e.g. to Amazon, AO3, or GitHub) and which one
How far down a page you scrolled

What this site does not collect

Your name, email address, or any personally identifying information
Any data about what you type into the newsletter form
Data that is sold to advertisers or used to build a profile of you
Cross-site tracking or retargeting data

Analytics tools in use

Google Analytics 4 Tracks page views, traffic sources, outbound link clicks, scroll depth, and general device/location information. GA4 uses cookies and sends data to Google's servers. IP addresses are anonymised before storage. Google may use aggregated data in accordance with their own privacy policies. Google Privacy Policy • GA4 opt-out browser add-on

Cloudflare Web Analytics Tracks page views, referrers, countries, and performance metrics. Cloudflare's analytics tool is designed without cookies and without cross-site tracking. It does not fingerprint individual visitors. Cloudflare Privacy Policy

Cloudflare Turnstile Used on the newsletter form to verify that visitors are human (bot protection). Turnstile does not track you across sites and does not use an advertising cookie. Cloudflare Privacy Policy

If you sign up for the newsletter, your email address is handled separately by MailerLite. Analytics tools on this site do not receive or store your email address. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email.

How to opt out of Google Analytics

Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can also block analytics scripts using a browser extension such as uBlock Origin.

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