Privacy

Privacy is not a major issue when visiting this website, but there are two things you ought to know.

Matomo Analytics

I have begun using Matomo Analytics, instead of Google Analytics, because I think it better preserves both your privacy and mine. I use analytics to record what pages are most visited, to help me provide content that is most helpful to readers. Matomo asks that I put the following statement here.

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

The tracking opt-out feature requires cookies to be enabled.

Google analytics

This website will be using Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, for only a few more weeks until I am satisifed Matomo Analytics is properly set up. Google requires, as a condition of use, that a statement such as what follows is included.

Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. This may possibly mean that you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website, but I don’t know of anything that will be affected. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

You can read Google’s full privacy policy here.

Discussion and comments

You are free to visit and make comments on the Is there a God? comment pages, or on the blog, but I ask for a name and email address. This email address does not go anywhere else, and I will remove it from the site database if you request.