Privacy

I’m Karl Dinkler, and this is my own site, run from Lake Nona, Florida. There is nothing to sign up for and no advertising, and I don’t sell or pass on anything about the people who read it. It does count visits, so I can see which pages get read.

Google Analytics records which pages are opened, whether they are read to the end and which outside links are followed. With each visit it notes the city or region, the kind of device and browser, and the site that sent the visitor here. To tell one visit from the next it sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_8GG9R4Q391, which last up to two years. Its advertising features are turned off. Google describes its side in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

The site is built and hosted on Base44, which keeps its own count of visits and page views. For that it stores a random ID in the browser, and a cookie that remembers for 30 days which site the visitor came from. Like any host, it also receives what a browser sends with every request, including the IP address.

If your device is set to a European time zone, or your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, none of that runs. Google Analytics is not loaded, Base44’s count is off and no cookies are kept. The one thing left in the browser is a short note telling the site not to count you.

Anywhere else, turning on Global Privacy Control in your browser stops the counting here.

If you write to me, I use your message and your address to reply. I don’t add anyone to a mailing list.

If what the site records changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. For questions about any of it, write to me and I’ll answer.