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title: Privacy
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# Privacy

_Last updated August 22, 2026_

> What carltonaikins.com collects, what it does not, and which third-party services a page load touches.

This site is a personal website. It runs no analytics, no advertising, and no cross-site tracking, and it does not build a profile of you. This page describes the small amount of data the site does handle and the third parties a page load touches.

## What the site does not do

There is no analytics script, no advertising network, no tag manager, and no tracking pixel on any page. No cookies are set for tracking or advertising. Fonts are served from this domain rather than a font CDN, so loading a page does not tell a third party who you are.

## The visitor map

The home page shows the approximate location of the most recent visitor. When you load the page, the hosting platform passes the site an approximate city, country, latitude, and longitude derived from your IP address. The coordinates are rounded to roughly 11 kilometers before anything is stored.

Only a single record is kept: the rounded coordinates, city, country, and timestamp of the most recent visitor. The next visitor overwrites it. Your IP address itself is never written to storage, and there is no history, no visitor log, and no way to tie a record back to a person. The record lives in a hosted Redis database (Upstash).

## Third-party requests a page load makes

- Favicons for linked projects are fetched from Google’s public favicon service, so your browser makes a request to [google.com](https://google.com) when a page lists external links.
- Map tiles for the visitor map are fetched from CARTO’s public basemap CDN, and only after you scroll the map into view.
- Link previews shown on hover are fetched by this site’s server, not by your browser — the linked site sees a request from the server, never from you.
- The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps short-lived operational request logs as part of serving traffic.

## Local storage on your device

The site may store a theme preference in your browser’s local storage. That value stays on your device, is never sent to the server, and is cleared when you clear site data.

## Your choices and contact

Because the site stores no identifiers tied to you, there is nothing to export or delete on request. For any privacy question, email [carlton@charmtechnologies.co](mailto:carlton@charmtechnologies.co).