Privacy

This site is a personal blog run by Ozzy Rodriguez. It does not use tracking cookies, advertising networks, or third-party analytics. What follows is a complete description of what data is collected, why, and how long it is kept.

What is collected

When you load a page, the web server logs the request. Each record includes:

• The URL path you requested
• The HTTP method (usually GET)
• Your IP address
• Your User-Agent string (browser and operating system identifier)
• The Referer header, with any query strings and fragments removed before storage
• A timestamp

These logs exist for two purposes: debugging broken links on the site, and detecting automated scanning and abuse.

Where the logs are kept

Logs are stored in two places:

1. On the web server itself, in rotating files that are deleted after 14 days.
2. In Axiom, a third-party logging service used for searchable access. The dataset is configured with a 30-day retention window, after which events are deleted automatically.

Logs are not sold, shared with advertisers, or used for any purpose other than operating this site.

Ask Ozzy

The Ask Ozzy chat box on this site sends your question to Anthropic's Claude API to generate a response. Anthropic's privacy policy applies to that data. Questions and responses are not stored on this site after the response is returned, and the content of your question is never written to the request log. Your IP address may still appear in logs if the Turnstile challenge fails or Cloudflare's verification service is unreachable.

Before submitting, the page loads Cloudflare Turnstile to verify you are a human. Turnstile receives your IP address and browser fingerprinting signals as part of that check; Cloudflare's privacy policy applies to that data.

What is not collected

• No tracking, advertising, or analytics cookies. The site does set two first-party cookies used by the Laravel framework for session handling and CSRF protection. Your cookie banner preference is stored separately in your browser's localStorage.
• No third-party analytics. No Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, or equivalent.
• No advertising identifiers.
• No account system, so no email addresses, names, or passwords are stored.

Questions

If you have a question about this policy or want your IP address removed from the logs before the retention window expires, get in touch via the LinkedIn link in the footer.