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title: "Privacy"
url: "https://www.akshaymaurya.com/privacy"
description: "What this site collects, which is very little, and exactly where it goes."
---

# Privacy

What this site collects, which is very little, and exactly where it goes.

This is a personal portfolio. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no contact form and no advertising. Nothing you do here is used to build a profile of you, and nothing is sold or shared with a data broker.

## Analytics

The site uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It is cookieless: instead of storing an identifier on your device, Vercel derives a hash from the incoming request, and that hash is reset every day, so you cannot be followed from one day to the next or from this site to another. What I see is aggregate — how many people read a page, which pages, roughly where in the world. I cannot see who you are.

Because no cookie or persistent identifier is set for analytics, there is no consent banner asking you to accept one.

## What is stored on your device

One thing: if you use the light and dark toggle, your choice is saved in your browser under the key "portfolio:theme" so the site does not flash the wrong theme on your next visit. It never leaves your browser. Clearing site data removes it.

## Requests to other services

Some numbers on this site are fetched live by your browser rather than typed in by me, which means your browser talks to those services directly and they will see the request. They are: the GitHub API and a public GitHub contributions API, for repository stars and the contribution calendar; and pub.dev, for package likes and monthly installs. Video thumbnails in the Videos chapter are loaded from YouTube, and the interaction clips are served from this site.

Fonts are self-hosted, so no font provider is contacted. Links out to GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Medium, YouTube, Instagram, Product Hunt, Telegram and Reddit are ordinary links — those sites apply their own policies once you arrive.

## Your options

If you would rather not appear in the aggregate counts at all, a content blocker or a browser that blocks analytics will stop the Vercel script loading, and the rest of the site works exactly the same. To have anything removed, or to ask what is held, email akshaymaurya3006@gmail.com — although in practice there is no record tied to you to remove.

If this policy changes, the change ships in the same commit as the behaviour it describes, and the repository history is public.