Privacy Policy

Summary: This is my personal website. I don’t use cookies, analytics, tracking scripts, or advertising, and I don’t collect, sell, or share your personal information. The only data collected while using this site is standard technical information my hosting provider logs automatically to deliver and secure the site.

Who runs this site

This website mehrtens.com is operated by Matthew Mehrtens as a personal, non-commercial project. If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach me at privacy@mehrtens.com.

Information I collect directly

None. There are no accounts to create, no forms to fill out, and no newsletter or comment system. I do not ask for or store your name, email address, or any other personal details through this site.

Information collected automatically

This is a static website hosted on Cloudflare. Like nearly all web hosting and content-delivery networks (CDN), Cloudflare automatically records some standard technical request data to deliver pages, serve assets, and protect my site from abuse. This may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
• Browser type and user-agent string
• The pages or files requested, and the date and time of the request
• Approximate, country-level location derived from the IP address

This logging is done by Cloudflare as my hosting and CDN provider. I do not add any tracking of my own and I only see aggregate traffic statistics from Cloudflare’s built-in dashboard analytics, which is server-side and cookieless. I do not use any of this information to identify you or to build a profile of you. See the Third-party services section for more information.

Cookies

I don’t set any cookies of my own. My hosting provider, Cloudflare, may set strictly-necessary cookies for security and bot protection.

Analytics and advertising

I do not use Google Analytics or any other analytics service, and I do not run advertising or third-party tracking scripts of any kind.

Third-party services

The only third party involved in operating this site is my hosting and content-delivery provider, Cloudflare (including Cloudflare’s static hosting and object storage for assets). Cloudflare processes the technical request data described above on my behalf as part of serving the site. You can read how Cloudflare handles that data in its privacy policy.

If you email me

If you choose to contact me by email, I’ll receive whatever information you include in that message, and I’ll keep it as ordinary correspondence so I can reply. I won’t use it for anything else or share it without permission, except where I’m required to by law.

Your choices and rights

Because I don’t collect personal information through this site, there’s very little data for you to access, correct, or delete. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). If you’d like to exercise any such right or simply ask what, if anything, I hold, email me at privacy@mehrtens.com and I’ll help.

Children’s privacy

This site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If my website changes—for example, if I ever add analytics, a contact form, or another service—I’ll update this page, revise the “last updated” date above, and add to the running changelog below.