---
title: "privacy"
description: "the personal website for alex laughnan, a software engineer based in the san francisco bay area."
url: "https://alexlaughnan.com/privacy/"
---

# privacy

this site uses [posthog](https://posthog.com/) to collect anonymous analytics about traffic. that helps me understand which pages people read, where they come from, and whether anything is broken.

## what gets collected

things like the pages you visit, the links you click, the site that referred you, your browser and device type, and a rough location (country or city) derived from your ip address. posthog stores a random identifier in your browser so repeat visits can be counted as the same visitor. if a page throws a javascript error, the error message and stack trace are sent too, so i can fix it.

## what doesn't

there are no accounts on this site, so nothing is tied to a user account, your name, or your email. i don’t do any user-specific tracking, build profiles of individual visitors, sell data, or share it with advertisers. i look at the numbers in aggregate.

## opting out

clearing this site’s cookies and local storage resets the random identifier. the site works the same if you block the analytics script.

questions? feel free to [reach out](https://form.asana.com/?k=Ax6yqD3GX-0fZmjsq8ESCA&d=523376155844622).

last updated october 15, 2026.