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This policy describes how information is handled on allencoin.com,
Allen Coin's personal website.
Analytics and cookies
I use Google Analytics 4, delivered through Google Tag Manager, to
understand how people find and use this website. Analytics can
collect pages viewed, interactions, referral information, browser
and device information, and approximate location. It uses cookies
and similar technologies to distinguish visits and measure usage.
Google processes information through these services. You can read
about
how Google uses information from sites that use its services
and
Google's Privacy Policy.
Privacy settings and regional defaults
Open Privacy from the Start menu or use Privacy settings on this
page to control analytics and embedded videos separately. Analytics
stays off while the site checks an approximate connection region.
Connections classified as EEA (including its covered territories),
UK, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Jersey, or Guernsey are
asked first; other recognized regions default to analytics and
embedded videos on. If the check fails, analytics stays off unless
you enable it. Region is not a statement of nationality.
When either service has no saved choice, a Cloudflare service checks
the connection region. Cloudflare receives your IP address and other
connection information. The service returns only a regional policy
classification; this website does not save your IP address or
country. Cloudflare's own processing is described in its
Privacy Policy.
Explicit privacy choices are stored in this browser for up to 180
days. They take precedence over regional defaults. A Global Privacy
Control signal keeps analytics off even if you previously allowed
it. Privacy choices and accessibility settings are not sent to
analytics. Ad blockers can independently block optional services.
Turning off a service that has already loaded reloads the page to
stop its code. Turning off analytics also removes accessible
first-party Google Analytics cookies. This does not undo requests
already sent or delete historical records held by Google. It cannot
remove third-party cookies belonging to other sites. If preferences
cannot be saved, the panel explains the limited persistence.
Embedded videos
YouTube presentations load when opened if videos are enabled by your
choice or regional default. Otherwise, they wait for permission,
either for that video or as a saved preference. The player uses
YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed mode. Loading it connects your
browser to Google and YouTube, which receive technical information
such as your IP address and information about the video request.
Privacy-enhanced mode does not make viewing anonymous. Google's
privacy policy applies to its processing of this information.
Website hosting
This website is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub logs visitors' IP
addresses for security purposes. See the
GitHub Privacy Statement
for details.
Email
If you email me, I receive your email address and whatever
information you include in your message. I use that information to
respond and manage our correspondence. Please avoid sending
sensitive information you do not need to share.
Saved preferences
If you apply a wallpaper, this site saves your selection in your
browser's local storage so it can use your choice across the site
and on future visits. Error screens keep their own background. The
saved preference stays in your browser.
When enabled, Analytics may also record which wallpaper you preview
or select, along with interactions such as opening, minimizing, or
closing windows, restarting or shutting down the desktop, and
opening a video. You can remove it by clearing this site's stored
data in your browser settings.
Accessibility settings are also saved in your browser's local
storage. Your selected accessibility settings are not sent to Google
Analytics. Use Restore defaults in the Accessibility panel, then
Apply, to reset them, or clear this site's stored data in your
browser settings.
Your choices
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings and
use browser privacy controls to limit tracking. Google also provides
a
Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on
for supported desktop browsers. That add-on does not stop all data
collection by other services, including YouTube or the hosting
provider. Optional services remain off when JavaScript is disabled.
Hosting connections are still necessary to serve the website.
Clearing site data also clears your privacy choices, so regional
defaults will be checked again on a later visit.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your
personal information. To ask a privacy question or make a request
about information I hold, email
privacy@allencoin.com.
Business card exchange
I use your submitted name, email and optional details to review card
requests and save contacts. They are stored in a private Neon
database and may be emailed to me through Resend; Vercel runs the
card service. There is no mailing list.
Public card requests use Cloudflare Turnstile to check for spam
before submission. This check does not send your form contents or
private card link to Cloudflare.
I keep pending and approved requests and saved contacts until I
delete them. Declined requests are removed after 30 days. Private
card links expire, and a link can be forwarded by anyone who has it.
The contact page keeps its access token in this tab's session
storage. Private card views and sample previews do not load
analytics. Public card requests may measure form starts and
submissions, but not what you type, subject to your privacy
settings. A measured submission does not confirm the request was
saved. Contact details you download remain in your address book.
Email
privacy@allencoin.com to
ask me to delete your submitted details.
Changes
I may update this policy as the website changes. The date above
identifies the latest revision.