> How christopherabraham.com uses Google Analytics with consent mode, why visitors in Europe and the UK get no analytics cookies, and what happens to your email.
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> Source: https://christopherabraham.com/privacy/ · Updated 2026-10-06 · By Christopher Abraham

# Privacy

This site runs one script: Google Analytics 4, which tells me roughly how many people visit, which pages they read, and how they found the site. It runs no advertising, no remarketing, and no other tracking.

## Analytics, in detail
- **Advertising features are off for everyone.** Ad storage, ad user data, and ad personalization are all switched off in the site's consent settings, so visits here are never used to target ads.
- **Visitors in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom** get no analytics cookies at all. Google receives only cookieless, aggregate signals from those regions.
- **Visitors elsewhere** get first-party Google Analytics cookies, named `_ga` and `_ga_` followed by an ID, that tell repeat visits apart from new ones. They hold a random identifier, not your name or email.
- Google processes the data under its own privacy policy. I see aggregate reports: page views, rough location by country or city, device type, and referring sites, including AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity.

To opt out on every site that uses Google Analytics, install Google's opt-out browser add-on, or block cookies for this site in your browser settings. Everything here works the same with analytics blocked.

## What the host sees

GitHub Pages serves the site. GitHub's servers receive the connecting IP address and the requested page, as every web host does, and may retain those logs for security under GitHub's privacy statement. I can't see them.

## Everything else on the page

Pages, images, and styles all load from this domain. There are no embedded videos, social buttons, third-party fonts, or pixels. Outbound links, such as those to Upwork and Calendly, lead to sites with their own policies.

## Messages and calls

An email, call, or text gives me your address or number and whatever you write. I use it to answer you and, if you hire me, to do the work. It's never sold, shared for marketing, or added to a list. Logins and analytics access granted during an engagement serve that engagement only, and I give them up when it ends or whenever you ask.

## Crawlers

Search engines and AI crawlers may read and cite the public pages, as described in [robots.txt](https://christopherabraham.com/robots.txt). No visitor information goes to them.

## Questions

Write to [cja@well.com](mailto:cja@well.com) with any privacy question, or to have me delete your past emails with me.

Updated October 6, 2026