Privacy
This is a personal site. It collects as little as it can. Here is exactly what, and how to have it removed.
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The short version
- You can read everything here without an account.
- I measure visits so I know what is worth writing more of.
- If you join the email list, I keep your email address until you ask me to remove it.
- I do not sell data and there are no ads.
Analytics
The site uses three tools to understand how it is used:
- Google Analytics counts page views and shows roughly where visitors come from.
- Microsoft Clarity records how pages are scrolled and clicked, so I can find parts that are confusing. Text you type into forms is masked.
- Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits without cookies. Cloudflare also serves the site, so it processes your IP address to deliver pages, as any host does.
Google Analytics and Clarity set cookies, and you decide whether they run:
- The first time you visit, a small notice lets you allow or turn off analytics. Your answer is remembered on this device.
- If you are visiting from Europe or the UK, neither tool loads until you say yes.
- If your browser sends the Global Privacy Control signal, neither tool loads at all and you are not asked.
- The 3D worlds only ever load Google Analytics, never Clarity.
The email list
When you subscribe with the form on this site, I store your email address, the page you signed up from and the time. It is kept in a private Google Sheet and used for one thing: sending you the updates you asked for. You get a short thank-you email straight away.
To leave the list, reply to any email or write to say@hibhavishya.in and I will delete your address.
AI This Week is separate. It is published on LinkedIn, and LinkedIn handles its subscriptions under its own privacy policy.
The contact form
When you send a message from the contact page, I receive your name, your email address, the topic you picked and what you wrote. It arrives in my inbox and a copy is kept in the same private Google Sheet, so nothing gets lost. I use it to reply to you and for nothing else. You are not added to the email list.
Stored on your device
The site saves two things in your browser’s local storage: whether you picked the light or the dark theme, and your analytics choice. Neither leaves your device.
Other services
- YouTube. Videos in articles load only when you press play, and they use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player.
- Links to my projects. Ring Ping, Rank Kiwi and LinkedInRank are separate sites with their own privacy pages.
- Email. If you write to me, I keep the conversation in my inbox like anyone would.
Your choices
You can ask what I hold about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it. Write to say@hibhavishya.in. You can also block cookies in your browser and the site will keep working.
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.