The modern web is a privacy nightmare, so I'll keep this simple; this site is not tracking you. There are no cookies, no ads, no Javascript, and no other tracking "features" on this website.
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Logging
To ensure the site is functioning correctly for all users we do collect server side usage logs. The hosting provider (AWS CloudFront) provides this logging functionality that records the following kinds of personal information about your usage of this site:
- The date & time of your access and what content you accessed.
- Which edge location you connected to.
- The IP address of your connection.
- Your
User-Agentstring. - Additional, non-personally identifying information such as the HTTP version your browser is using.
For a more detailed explanations of all the fields CloudWatch provides please see the AWS CloudFront Documentation on this topic.
What is an edge location?
An edge location is one of many servers operated by AWS, spread all across the world. Each edge location caches a copy of this website and by serving the website to you from an edge location physically closer to you, this website loads faster.
By knowing which edge location you connect to, it is possible to approximate your physical location. However, this approximation is only accurate to the nearest big city or national region. Because you are just one in millions of people within range of the same edge location, it is impossible to identify your location from this information alone.