What this site knows about you.
Almost nothing, and this page says exactly what that means. No cookies, no analytics, no advertising trackers. The only thing I learn about you is what you decide to type into the contact form.
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The short version.
- This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
- Nothing reaches me unless you send it — through the contact form, by email, or by booking a call.
- What you send is used to answer you, and for nothing else. I don't sell it, rent it, or add it to a mailing list.
What the pages themselves collect.
Nothing. Every page here is static HTML, and it loads no analytics script, no advertising pixel, no social widget, and no font from someone else's server. The typeface is served from this domain precisely so that no third party learns which pages you read. The contact page is the single exception, and it is described below.
Cloudflare serves the site, and like any web host their network records ordinary request data — IP address, time, page, browser — for security and network operations, under their own privacy policy. What I see of that is a count of requests the site has served. It doesn't identify anyone, and I have no way to look you up in it.
When you use the contact form.
The form asks for your name, your email address, an optional rough budget, and your message. All four are sent to my inbox as an email, and a copy of your own message is sent back to you as an acknowledgement so you have a record of what you wrote. Nothing is written to a database, because there isn't one.
I use what you send to answer you and, if we end up working together, to do the work. It doesn't go on a mailing list — there is no mailing list — and it is never passed to anyone else.
Spam protection and rate limiting.
A contact form that emails an acknowledgement is a tempting thing for a spammer, so two protections sit in front of it.
The first is Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check that runs on the contact page and nowhere else on the site. It is the only script on any page loaded from another domain, and it's there because the form cannot safely exist without it. Cloudflare receives your IP address and some browser information to make that judgement; Turnstile is not an advertising product and does not follow you around the web.
The second is a limit on how many messages one visitor can send in an hour. To count them, your IP address is hashed and the hash is used as a counter, which expires by itself within the hour. Being straight about what that buys: hashing an IP address reduces incidental exposure, it does not make it anonymous. It's worth doing because the counter is the only thing this site stores about a visitor at all, and it deletes itself.
Booking a call.
The links to book a call go to Cal.com. Once you're there you are on their site,and the name, email address, and time you give them are held under their privacy policy. I get the booking details by email.
Cookies.
This site sets none, which is why you weren't shown a consent banner — there is nothing to consent to. The bot check on the contact page may keep a short-lived token in your browser to remember that you passed it. That is a security measure, not a tracker, and it appears on no other page.
Who else can see your information.
Three companies, and this is the whole list. No advertising network, no data broker, no CRM.
- Cloudflare
- Hosts the site and runs the bot check on the contact page.
- Postmark
- Delivers the two emails a contact form submission sends.
- Cal.com
- Handles call bookings — only if you follow a booking link.
How long I keep it.
Your message stays in my mailbox as long as the enquiry or the working relationship is live, and I delete it when it stops being useful. The rate-limit counter expires within an hour, automatically. Beyond those two, there is nothing to keep.
Your choices.
Ask me what I hold about you and I'll tell you. Ask me to delete it and I will, unless I need it for a contract we've both signed or the law requires me to keep it. There's no account to close and no list to unsubscribe from. This applies to everyone who writes to me, wherever you live — I'm not going to ask you to prove your jurisdiction has a statute first.
Changes to this page.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. I'm not going to quietly widen what I collect and leave you to spot the difference.
Questions.
Write to erik@ascentwebs.com, or use the contact page. I reply to every message within one business day.