Privacy
This is a simple personal site, and I don't want to have to deal with data protection! I care a lot about privacy myself, and have a high standard of privacy. This website is hopefully an extension of that, with little in the ways of third-parties or privacy risks.
That said, a few things need mentioned! If you have any questions or concerns about privacy on this website, email me at alistair@accudio.com.
Analytics
I use basic analytics on my website powered by the relatively privacy-friendly Goatcounter. I use it to get aggregate and anonymised stats on how many people are using my website, what pages they are visiting and general details about devices to help me best operate my site.
Goatcounter is configured to collect:
- Visited URL
- Timestamp
- Referrer — from the Referer HTTP header
- Unique sessions — unique visits from the same browser within an 8hr period
- Browser and system name — derived from user-agent header
- Viewport size
- Country — derived from anonymised IP address
No individual page views are stored, only aggregate statistics.
I use the Goatcounter public instance, hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland and Germany, and operated by Martin Tournoij. You can find more about the privacy of that instance and the database architecture at Goatcounter's privacy policy.
You can disable analytics by clicking the button below, or alternatively by enabling Do Not Track or the Global Privacy Control in your browser.
Other
I do not store or collect personal data and there are no other third-party JavaScript or client resources used on this website.
alistairshepherd.uk is hosted by Cloudflare and Netlify, they may collect data for performance and security purposes. I'd love to change that in future, but right now that's what I'm using.