Privacy

This site has no accounts and asks you for nothing. It counts visits with Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which Google runs for the site's author. This page says what that sends, and when it sends nothing.

What Google Analytics receives

For each page you open, GA4 receives:

• the page's address, without anything after a # or ?. On this site the address names the institution, state or report you are reading, so Google learns which ones were looked at
• the address of the page that linked you here, if your browser sends it
• your browser, operating system, screen size and language, and a rough location that Google works out from your IP address (GA4 does not store the IP address itself)
• when you scroll to the bottom of a page, follow a link to another site, or download a file
• a random ID kept in two first-party cookies, _ga and _ga_5SE0M4LS60, for up to two years, so that a return visit can be told apart from a new one. _ga is shared by every site under chelseakr.github.io

Google signals and ad personalization are off, and the advertising consent signals are denied, so nothing here is used for advertising. No name, email address or account is involved.

In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, analytics cookies are off by default, so GA4 does not set its cookies there. Google still receives a cookieless ping for each page view, with no ID that links one visit to another.

Google keeps this data for 14 months and then deletes it. Google processes it in the United States, as described in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

When nothing is sent

No request goes to Google, and no Google cookie is set, when your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, when you have opted out on this device, or when JavaScript is off.

Opting out on this device

The "Opt out of analytics" button at the foot of every page stores disclosed:analytics-opt-out in this browser's local storage. That is not a cookie, and it is never sent anywhere. "Opt back in" removes it, and so does clearing this site's data. Opting out does not delete _ga cookies you already have, because other chelseakr.github.io sites share them. They expire on their own, and this site sends nothing to Google while you are opted out. Google also offers a browser add-on that turns Google Analytics off everywhere.

Hosting

GitHub Pages hosts this site, and GitHub may log visitors' IP addresses; see the GitHub General Privacy Statement.