Privacy and analytics choices

Updated November 8, 2026.

Website services

Cloudflare delivers this website. Newsletter signup uses AWeber; contact and partnership messages use the existing form handlers. Analytics choices do not subscribe you or block site access, forms or links. See the affiliate disclosure.

Google Analytics and your choices

Google Analytics runs by default only for eligible visits from the United States unless you turn it off or send Global Privacy Control, as described below. There are no automatic consent or signup popups. You can record a refusal using the footer's Turn off optional analytics button, whether or not analytics is running for your visit.

Regional behavior

Optional Google Analytics runs by default only for eligible United States visits unless you turn it off or send Global Privacy Control. The EEA, United Kingdom, Switzerland and every other non-US, unknown or separately coded territory remain off, with no automatic prompt anywhere. The country on the incoming Cloudflare request is an estimate, not proof of residence or legal rights. Missing, failed, invalid or cached policy results and unavailable storage leave this integration off.

Footer and privacy choices remain available without a popup. A saved refusal and browser or request Global Privacy Control override the US default. Allow optional analytics lets an eligible visitor change an earlier refusal; it cannot override a non-US or failed policy. Closing or ignoring a page is not a recorded acceptance. Preferences use local storage named tc-analytics-v2. Explicit grants last 90 days; refusals have no automatic expiry. An expired grant returns to an unset choice; under the US default an unset choice permits measurement. These are preference durations, not cookie or provider-retention guarantees. Older refusals remain honored; older grants are not treated as new explicit consent. If saving a refusal fails, the current document stays suppressed but later-visit persistence cannot be promised.

What Google Analytics can measure

After a fresh US eligibility check, the tag could send a page view and native Google session and engagement measurement on approved public content pages. Dedicated forms, confirmation pages and this privacy page are excluded, as are URLs with a query string or fragment. Application events use a reviewed static path and blank title and referrer. No click, affiliate, form, signup, purchase, advertising event, full affiliate URL, form value or User-ID is deliberately supplied by this code. Google can receive connection information including an IP address, browser/device information, analytics cookies and Google-generated identifiers.

Advertising storage, advertising user data and personalization consent remain denied, with Google Signals and ad personalization requested off. This is not a promise that the account's Enhanced Measurement is disabled or that all native events/destinations are verified. A native stream setting could still cause additional collection; actual behavior and account-controlled features remain unverified. You can turn off optional analytics at any time using the footer controls.

Refusal, withdrawal and limits

Turn off optional analytics first sets Google's destination opt-out flag, stops application events and pending startup, saves refusal and attempts to delete accessible first-party _ga cookies at the current path and ancestors. It does not remove inaccessible, HttpOnly, unrelated-path or other-provider cookies, recall in-flight data or erase data already held by Google. A loaded Google library may require one safety refresh to a clean approved path; a session pause prevents automatic restart. Failed pause storage leaves the document disabled without that refresh.