Privacy Notice

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. No session cookies, no tracking cookies, no advertising cookies. One small setting is kept in your browser and is never sent anywhere: your light or dark theme choice, saved when you use the theme toggle. The one exception sits with Cloudflare, not this site: if you use the newsletter signup form, its security check may store strictly necessary data, described under Fonts and external resources below.

Analytics

This site does not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other user-tracking analytics service. There are no third-party scripts that identify you, build a profile of your behaviour, or share data with advertisers.

Aggregate, anonymous visit counts are provided by Cloudflare's infrastructure-level Web Analytics, which collects no personal data and sets no cookies. Cloudflare's privacy policy is available at cloudflare.com.

Page-view counts are also measured with Plausible Analytics, a privacy-focused service hosted in the European Union. Plausible sets no cookies, stores no IP addresses, and reports only aggregate figures such as page views, referring sites and country. Plausible's data policy is available at plausible.io/data-policy.

Server logs

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare's servers automatically record standard HTTP request logs: your IP address, the page you requested, the time of the request, and your browser's User-Agent string. These logs are retained by Cloudflare for approximately 30 days in accordance with their standard data retention policy and are not accessible to or processed by me.

Fonts and external resources

All fonts are self-hosted. No requests are made to Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, or any other third-party font provider. All typefaces load from this domain.

There are no embedded social widgets, share buttons, or comment systems that load third-party scripts on page load.

The newsletter signup form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which checks that a signup comes from a person and not an automated script. Turnstile is not loaded when a page opens: it loads from challenges.cloudflare.com only once you click or tab into the signup form. It then processes your IP address, your browser's User-Agent string and technical connection details, and it may keep strictly necessary challenge data in your browser. Cloudflare uses these signals for two purposes: to tell people from bots on this form, on my behalf, and to improve Turnstile's bot detection, for which Cloudflare decides how the data is used and is responsible for it. Cloudflare states that it does not use them to identify, profile or target individuals. Its Turnstile privacy addendum, available at cloudflare.com, governs that processing. If you never use the form, Turnstile is never loaded.

One teaching post on this site includes an embedded YouTube video, served via YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Loading that page fetches the player from youtube-nocookie.com, and YouTube's privacy policy governs any data collected.

Email contact

If you write to me by email, your message and email address are retained in my inbox for as long as is necessary to respond or keep a record of the correspondence. Email is on your terms: you initiate it, you control what you share, and you can ask me to delete it at any time by writing to info@farhaanahmed.com.

Newsletter

The site offers an optional email newsletter signup, run on this site's own infrastructure. If you subscribe, your email address is stored in the site's database on Cloudflare (whose role is described above) and used solely to deliver the letters. Both the confirmation email and the letters themselves are sent by Resend, which processes the address at sending time.

Subscription is double opt-in: until you confirm from your own inbox, the address is held as unconfirmed and receives nothing beyond the confirmation email. An unconfirmed request expires after thirty days: it can no longer be confirmed, and the address is removed in routine housekeeping. To limit abuse of the form, a salted, non-reversible fingerprint of your network address is kept while a subscription is unconfirmed and discarded when you confirm. Every letter carries a one-click unsubscribe, and you can ask for your address to be deleted at any time, confirmed or not, by writing to info@farhaanahmed.com.

Your rights

If you are based in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have rights under the GDPR and the UK GDPR respectively, including the right to access, correct, or erase personal data held about you. Given that this site collects almost no personal data, the practical scope of these rights is narrow, but they apply nonetheless. Write to info@farhaanahmed.com for any data-related requests.

Changes to this notice

If this site adds further features that affect privacy (a contact form, say), this notice will be updated to reflect that before the feature goes live. The site's source code is available for inspection on request.