Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 25, 2025

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

Information We Collect

We collect information in various ways to provide and improve our services.

Information You Provide to Us

Direct Collection

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Guestbook: When you sign our guestbook, we collect your name and email address from your authentication provider (Google or GitHub), along with your message. Anonymous sign-ins use a unique anonymous ID.
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Contact: If you contact us directly, we receive your email address and any information you provide.

Information We Collect Automatically

Automatic Collection

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Log and Usage Data: Our servers automatically collect IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and timestamps for security and operational purposes.
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Analytics Data: We use Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics to understand visitor engagement, including device, location, and browsing behavior data.
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Cookies and Tracking: We use cookies and similar technologies to operate and personalize the website. See our Cookie Policy for details.

How We Use Your Information

We use collected information to provide, improve, and protect our services.

•Provide, operate, and maintain our website
•Improve, personalize, and expand functionality and user experience
•Understand and analyze website usage through analytics
•Enable interactive features like Guestbook and real-time cursors
•Protect security and integrity, including rate limiting and blocking malicious IPs
•Respond to your comments or inquiries

Sharing of Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information in certain situations.

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With Third-Party Service Providers: We share data with vendors performing services for us, including Vercel (hosting), Firebase (authentication), Firestore (database), Google and Vercel (analytics), Sentry (error monitoring), and Upstash (rate limiting)
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By Law or to Protect Rights: We may share information if necessary to respond to legal process, investigate policy violations, or protect rights, property, and safety of others.

Note: Any information you post in the public guestbook will be visible to anyone who visits the site.

Third-Party Services

This site integrates with several third-party services governed by their own privacy policies.

Google(Firebase and Analytics)

Vercel(Hosting and Analytics)

Sentry(Error Monitoring)

Upstash(Rate Limiting)

Data Security and Retention

We implement security measures to protect your personal information.

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure your data, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

We retain your information only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. For example, guestbook messages are stored indefinitely unless a deletion is requested.

Your Data Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data.

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Right to Access: Request copies of your personal data
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Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate information
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Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data under certain conditions

To exercise any of these rights, such as requesting deletion of a guestbook message, please contact us using the information below.

Children's Privacy

This website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

Questions or comments about this Privacy Policy?

mike@mikeodnis.dev