Privacy

This is my personal site — writing, projects, and a small comment corner. I've tried to collect as little as possible and to keep this page in plain language. If anything here is unclear, just email me.

The short version

• You can read everything here without signing in.
• Every visit is logged for my own analytics — including your IP address and some details about your device and browser. More on that below.
• If you comment, leave a note, or react, that content is stored and shown publicly.
• Signing in is optional and only used to put your name on what you post.
• No ads, no third-party ad-tracking that follows you across other sites, no selling data. The analytics are just for me.

What gets collected

Every visit (my analytics)

When you arrive, the site records one entry per browser session so I can see how the site is doing and where readers come from. That entry includes:

• your IP address, and the approximate location (country, region, city, and rough coordinates) and timezone derived from it;
• your browser, operating system and device type, plus technical details your browser reports — screen and window size, language, connection type, and similar;
• the page you landed on, the site or link that referred you (including any campaign tags in the URL), and whether you've visited before;
• and, per page, how long you actively spend on it and how far down you scroll — so I can see which writing actually gets read.
• which outbound links, downloads and email/phone links you click, so I can see what people find useful — not what you do once you leave.

This is kept private to me, used only to understand my own traffic, and never sold or shared with advertisers. If you'd like your logged visits removed, email me.

Just reading

Your reading preferences — theme, text size, bionic reading, sound on/off — live in your browser's local storage, on your device. I never see them. Each essay also keeps a simple view counter, which is an aggregate number and isn't tied to you.

An anonymous device ID

If you post a comment, note, or reaction without signing in, the site generates a soft device fingerprint (via FingerprintJS, computed in your browser and cached locally). It exists so the same device keeps a consistent display handle and can't spam — not to track you across other websites, and it's never sold or shared.

If you sign in

Signing in is optional and uses GitHub or Google. When you do, the site receives your name or username, your avatar image, and your email address. These are used to attribute your comments and notes and to let you upvote. Your email is not shown publicly and isn't used to market anything to you.

What you post

Comments, inline notes (including the passage you highlighted), and reactions are stored and displayed publicly, alongside your display name and the date. Drawings you make on the shared canvas are also stored and shown publicly, tied to your signed-in account; your display name is shown when someone inspects a stroke, and I can moderate it. Anything you post here is meant to be seen by other readers.

Where it lives

Saved content and accounts are stored in the site's database — the “brain” — hosted by Supabase, which handles the database and sign-in. As with any web service, the database and the platform serving this site keep standard technical logs (such as IP address and browser type) for security and to keep things running. The companies involved act as processors for this data:

• Supabase — database, authentication, and storage of posted content, account data, and the visit logs described above.
• Vercel — hosting and the edge network that serves the site and resolves the approximate location from your IP.
• FingerprintJS — the anonymous device ID, generated in your browser.
• GitHub / Google — only if you choose to sign in with them.

Cookies & local storage

There are no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies here. The site uses your browser's local storage for reading preferences and the anonymous ID, and — if you sign in — to keep your login session active.

Your choices

• You can delete your own comments and notes at any time using the delete control on each one.
• Clearing your browser's local storage for this site removes your preferences and the anonymous ID.
• To request access to, correction of, or deletion of account data and anything tied to it, email me and I'll take care of it.

Children

This site isn't directed at children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “last updated” date above changes with it. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or removal requests: udaysinhsapate19@gmail.com.

This is a plain-language policy for a personal site, not formal legal advice. See also the Terms of Use.