Privacy
This site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand visitor traffic. It loads on every page, but analytics storage is denied unless you accept the cookie banner. Until you accept — and permanently, if you reject — it runs in a cookieless mode: the page view is counted, but no cookie is written and no identifier is kept, so you cannot be recognised on a later visit or on any other site. Accepting allows a single analytics cookie, which is what makes returning visits countable.
What GA4 collects when you accept
- Anonymized IP-region (city/country level), device type, browser
- Pages you visit on this site
- Referrer (the link that brought you here)
- A session-scoped cookie used to count returning visitors
GA4 does not link this data to a personal identity. Samir does not use this data for marketing or sell it to third parties.
What it collects when you do not accept
A count that the page was viewed, with the approximate region, device type and browser, and no cookie or identifier of any kind. Nothing is stored on your device and nothing links one page view to another, so there is no way to tell a returning visitor from a new one.
Opting out after accepting
Click "Cookie settings" in the footer and choose Reject. The page reloads and the analytics cookie is no longer permitted; GA4 reverts to the cookieless mode described above and stays there.
Contact
Privacy questions: samir@thevarmas.com