Privacy Policy
This is the privacy policy for my website.
TLDR: I don’t collect any personal information, but I do collect some site analytics via my Umami Analytics instance.
Why this exists
It seems the world, Big Tech, and everyone likes data — so much so that I’m afraid to even think about collecting it. Personal information gets leaked all the time for no good reason. Notably, where I’m from, Viet Nam, people’s personal info is literally a Google search away.
So I’d like to do my small part and be transparent about my practices with data.
The short version
I don’t collect your personal information. I can’t identify who you are from visiting this site.
Analytics
I use a self-hosted tool called Umami to see basic stats like how many people visit and which pages are popular. It works without cookies and never stores your IP address or anything that could identify you.
Per Umami’s FAQ:
Umami collects page views, referrer URLs, browsers, operating systems, device types, and country of origin. All data is anonymized and no personally identifiable information is stored.
My instance is at stats.itsrookienguyen.me, and the stats are public — you can see them here. I don’t use event tracking.
Comments
If you leave a comment, I store your name, email, and the comment itself. Your email isn’t shown publicly — it’s only used to pull in your Gravatar profile picture if you have one. I also log your IP address briefly to help with spam detection.
Want your comment removed? Email me at nhqthang@itsrookienguyen.me and I’ll take care of it.
Embedded content
Some pages include YouTube videos or Google Maps. When you interact with them, those services may collect data according to their own policies — that’s outside my control.
Some images and videos are served directly from my own self-hosted Immich and Nextcloud instances. These are under my control and do not involve any third-party data collection. These services do not have data collection at all.
Cookies
This site doesn’t set any analytics cookies. If you leave a comment, WordPress will save your name, email, and website in cookies so you don’t have to fill them in again next time. These last for one year.
There is also a temporary cookie set when visiting the login page to check if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and disappears when you close your browser. Since I’m the sole author of this site, you’ll never encounter this page.
Who I share your data with
Nobody. The only “public” data is the anonymized Umami stats linked above, which contain no personal information by design.