Privacy

Privacy

How this portfolio handles analytics, contact details, email subscriptions, Lab data, and third-party services.

Effective July 17, 2026. This portfolio collects as little data as practical. Public pages work without an account or personalized advertising.

Contact

The contact form sends your selected intent, message, name, and email address to a server-managed email provider so Ryan can receive and reply to your note. The server may send the selected intent and message to Google's Gemini service to check for unsolicited advertising before delivery. Name and email are not included in that classifier request. The site does not publish your email address. Do not include secrets, customer data, or other sensitive information in the message.

Email list

The subscribe form sends your email address to Resend so Ryan can send occasional updates about new essays, talks, and Ryan’s Lab. Resend retains the contact, subscription status, and delivery history. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing changes your delivery preference; it does not necessarily delete the contact record. Only addresses that directly opt in, or that can be traced to a prior explicit opt-in, belong on this list.

Comments

Comments on field notes, where enabled, are GitHub Discussions rendered by the open-source giscus widget. Posting requires signing in to GitHub inside the widget; comments are public and stored by GitHub under its own privacy practices. This site never sees your GitHub credentials.

Portfolio analytics

Google Analytics is on by default on the production portfolio and the Ryan’s Lab applications hosted with it. It measures page paths, a sanitized internal referrer, approved campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, and utm_content), and low-cardinality actions such as selecting a content item, subscribing, or completing the contact form. Advertising storage and personalization signals are disabled.

Arbitrary query parameters are excluded. Analytics events must not contain names, email addresses, form text, OAuth values, activity IDs, place names, coordinates, route geometry, photos, or raw errors. Google may still receive normal request and device information, including an IP address and browser details, under Google’s privacy policy. Browser privacy controls and content blockers may limit this collection. Experiments hosted outside this portfolio follow their own analytics and privacy practices.

Ryan’s Lab

Same-origin Lab applications can call third-party services to provide their core functionality. Strava 3D Explorer can process account and activity data after you choose to connect Strava. Air Quality Map and Isochrones can send a selected location to their supporting APIs. Do not submit a location or connect an account unless you accept the relevant provider terms and privacy practices.

Ryan’s Lab also links to experiments hosted outside this portfolio. Those destinations run separately and are governed by their own privacy notices and providers.

Third-party links

Links to GitHub, LinkedIn, Substack, X, YouTube, Google, npm, and other sites take you to services with their own privacy practices. This policy covers the portfolio and same-origin Lab applications, not external sites.

Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact form.