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Privacy Policy

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ismaeltech.dev is a personal portfolio and blog. It has no accounts, forms, or ads, it counts visits without cookies, and nothing about you is sold.

What this site stores in your browser

The site sets no cookies of its own. It keeps one value in your browser's session storage, brand-intro, so the header animation plays only once per visit. It never leaves your browser and is cleared when you close the tab.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare receives your IP address and standard request details (such as the page you ask for and your browser type) to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. If Cloudflare needs to check that a visitor is not a bot, it may set its own security cookie.

Visitor statistics

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and see how fast pages load. On each page, a small Cloudflare script (static.cloudflareinsights.com) sends the page address, the site that linked you here, and load-time measurements back to this site, where Cloudflare adds them to totals by country, browser, operating system, and device type. Cloudflare states that it uses no cookies or other browser storage for this and does not follow individual visitors over time. I only see the totals in the Cloudflare dashboard.

Outside services your browser contacts

Some pages load content from other services. Each of them receives your IP address and request details.

  • Discord status (homepage): your browser asks Lanyard (api.lanyard.rest) for my own Discord status about every 30 seconds while the page is open and visible, and loads my avatar from Discord's image server (cdn.discordapp.com), which may set its own security cookie (__cf_bm). This shares nothing about your Discord account. See Discord's privacy policy.
  • YouTube video (SpeedISKey post): the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, as soon as the post opens, so your browser contacts YouTube and Google servers even if you never press play. YouTube may store data in your browser once you play the video. See Google's privacy policy.

Links to other sites, such as GitHub or YouTube, follow those sites' own privacy policies once you open them.

Email

If you email admin@ismaeltech.dev, I receive your address and your message so I can reply.

Questions

Ask anything about this policy at admin@ismaeltech.dev. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.