Who we are
This is the personal blog of Jonathan Tarud. The website address is https://www.jonathant.com.
The site is a static one: there are no user accounts, no comments, no logins, and nothing you can upload. The only place it collects anything from you is the contact form, and the only ongoing collection is anonymous traffic measurement. The specifics are below.
Hosting
The site is served as static files from Fastmail file storage. Like any web server, Fastmail’s receives your IP address and browser user agent as part of serving a request, and may log it for operational and security purposes.
Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which posts get read. This sets cookies in your browser and sends Google your IP address (which Google truncates), page URL, referrer, and general device and browser information. It is used only in aggregate — to know that a post was read some number of times, not to identify you.
No advertising or remarketing features are enabled, and the data is not sold or shared with third parties for advertising.
If you would rather not be counted, any content blocker or the Google Analytics opt-out add-on will prevent it, and the site works exactly the same with it blocked.
Contact form
The contact form on the About page is handled by Web3Forms, which receives the name, email address, and message you type in and forwards them to me by email. That data is used to read and reply to your message. It is not added to a mailing list and not used for anything else.
The form is protected against automated abuse by hCaptcha, which collects information about your browser and interaction with the challenge in order to tell people from bots.
Both are third parties with their own privacy policies, linked above.
Cookies
The site itself sets no cookies. The only cookies come from Google Analytics and, on the About page, hCaptcha — both described above.
Embedded content
Posts occasionally embed content from other sites, such as YouTube videos. Embedded content behaves as though you had visited that site directly: the provider can see your request and may set its own cookies or tracking. Those providers’ policies apply to that content, not this one.
Outbound links in posts are just links. Following one takes you to a site with its own policies.
How long data is kept
Messages sent through the contact form stay in my email until I no longer need them. Analytics data is retained according to the retention period configured in Google Analytics.
There is nothing else — no accounts, no profiles, no comment history.
Your rights
You can ask me what personal data I hold about you, ask for a copy of it, or ask me to delete it. In practice that means any email you have sent me. Get in touch through the About page.