greg.ruthenbeck.io

Privacy

Short version: this site collects nothing, sets nothing, and calls nobody.

This is a static website — pages, images and files generated ahead of time and served from a plain web server. There is no backend, no database, no login and no comments.

  • No cookies. One thing is stored, and only if you choose a theme: the preference — light, dark or system — is kept under the key ruthy:theme in localStorage. Nothing else is stored, no session storage is used, and no value is sent anywhere.
  • No analytics. No tracking script, no tag manager, no fingerprinting, no profiling by me.
  • Almost no third-party requests. Everything the page needs — HTML, CSS, images, files, the icon — comes from this domain. Fonts are the ones already on your system, so no font service is contacted, and nothing is embedded from YouTube or any other site except the demonstration videos on the thesis page. Those are played by YouTube's own player, from youtube-nocookie.com, and the frame only loads once it is near the screen: a page you never scroll to the videos on requests nothing from YouTube. When the player does load, YouTube sees the request. Links to other sites are ordinary links: following one is your choice, and that site's privacy policy applies from then on.
  • No forms, no accounts. I do not ask for your name or email address. If you email me, I keep the email, as anyone would.
  • Server logs. Whoever hosts this site may keep standard access logs — IP address, path, timestamp — as any web server does. I do not use them to profile visitors.
Why this page is short The previous version of the site loaded three CDNs, Google Analytics and a cookie-consent popup, so it needed a policy to explain them. This one has none of that. The RSS feed, sitemap and llms.txt are files you can fetch; fetching them tells me nothing.