Last updated Nov 13, 2026.
Page views
I count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, a privacy-friendly analytics service from the company that hosts this site. When you load a page, it receives the page address, the site you came from, your browser, operating system and device type, and your country (worked out from your IP address). It sets no cookies, does not store your IP address, and identifies visitors only by a hash that is discarded after a day, so it cannot track you across days or across other websites. I use it to see which posts people read.
Likes
The like button on blog posts is run by a small service I host on Cloudflare. To stop the same visitor liking a post twice, it stores a one-way hash of your IP address mixed with a secret value, alongside the post you liked. Your actual IP address is never stored. The hash stays until you unlike the post; clicking the button again deletes it.
Reading progress and saved posts
The blog remembers how far you got in each post and which posts you saved for later, so it can show your progress and let you pick up where you left off. This is kept in your browser's local storage and never sent to me or anyone else. Clearing your browser's site data removes it.
Hosting
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages and the like service runs on Cloudflare. Like any web host, they may keep standard server logs, including IP addresses, under their own privacy policies: GitHub and Cloudflare.
Contacting me
If you email or message me, I use your details only to reply. Questions about this page, or a request to delete anything, go to vibhavari.bellutagi@gmail.com.