Privacy is part
of the design.

Optional analytics

Google Analytics is configured only for HTTPS pages on rikki.kiwi and www.rikki.kiwi. Its tag is blocked until you choose “Allow analytics”. Declining sends no analytics requests, including consent-mode pings. Local previews and other hostnames never load the tag. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals keep analytics off.

If you allow it, Google receives page-view and basic visit information, such as a session identifier, browser/device information, approximate location and normal connection information. Advertising features and Google signals are disabled. There are no custom identity fields, user IDs, automatic form or search tracking, or recorded message contents.

User-level and event-level retention is set to two months, with resets on new activity turned off. Google’s aggregated reports are subject to different retention rules and may remain available longer.

Only known public page paths and fixed titles are supplied to analytics. Query strings, fragments, unknown paths and referring URLs are excluded. This limits what is sent; it does not make a consented visit anonymous to Google. See Google’s privacy policy.

Your choice and browser storage

On the published site, your allow/decline choice is kept in session storage for this tab. If analytics is allowed, its first-party cookies expire with the browser session. Browser session-restore behaviour can extend a session. No analytics choice or cookies are written by the local preview.

Use “Analytics choices” in the footer to change your decision. Declining again disables collection and removes this site’s prefixed analytics cookies. Previously collected information is not erased by withdrawing consent.

What your browser loads

Pages, images, fonts and framework scripts are served from the same host. The Google tag is the sole optional third-party script, loaded only after consent on the published domain. There are no remote fonts, social embeds, forms, comments, visitor accounts or mailing lists.

Browser security rules restrict which scripts and services these pages can load. Embedded pages and form submissions are blocked.

Public content only

This site includes my public name and portraits. It does not include private contact details, my résumé, family names, family photographs or private family stories. Teaching examples are labelled, and do not identify employers, clients or colleagues.

The animated tree does not collect or transmit data. The optional cardboard portrait is an AI-assisted image, with suggested print dimensions.

External links and hosting

External links open their respective services when you follow them, with referrer information suppressed. Those services apply their own privacy practices. GitHub Pages receives normal connection information and logs IP addresses for security, independently of your analytics choice. See the host’s explanation of data collection.

Search visibility

These pages currently ask search engines not to index them. They remain publicly accessible. Analytics is available only on rikki.kiwi and www.rikki.kiwi, and starts only after you allow it.