What this site counts, and what it keeps
Short version: no cookies, no advertising, no third-party trackers or scripts. The site counts a few things on its own server so I can tell which pages help, and forgets them after 90 days. Questions to the chat assistant go to an AI service to be answered, and are not kept here.
What is counted
- Which page of the book you turn to, and which edition you choose.
- The result of the five questions (for example "2 of 5"), never your individual answers.
- Whether you opened your email with a request (and which review it names), copied it, copied my address, or opened a sample report. Not what you wrote: the request goes only from your own email, if you send it.
- Which rule of the field guide you open from the book.
- A short tag from the link you followed, when the link carries one (for example a link I shared in a proposal).
Nothing is counted if your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.
The server log
Like every web server, this one notes each request: the time, the page, the link you came from, your browser's name, and your network address with its last part blanked, so it points to a neighbourhood of addresses, not to you. The log is kept for 90 days and then deleted. It is not sold, shared or joined with anything else.
The chat assistant
If you ask the assistant a question, your question and the chat so far are sent to an AI service I pay for, to write the answer. Email addresses and phone numbers are removed first. The service does not use them to train its models. This site keeps no copy of what you wrote: it counts only that a question was asked and what the answer cost. Answers come from this site's pages and can be wrong. Please don't share private details in the chat. Ask me for details at info@johnkaranja.com.
What stays in your browser
If you choose light or dark, that choice is remembered in your browser. A link's tag, and your chat, are held only until you close the tab. Your answers to the five questions are never stored.
When you write to me
Your email, and anything you share for a review, is used only to reply and to do the work we agree, and is kept as correspondence. Ask me what I hold about you, or to delete it, at info@johnkaranja.com.
John Wainaina Karanja · UTC+3 · Back to the book