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Privacy Policy

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This website values your privacy. This policy explains what information may be collected, how it is used, and how it is handled when you visit RogerEhmpke.com.

What Information Is Collected

Contact form: If you submit a message through the contact form, the information you provide—such as your name, email address, and message—is used to respond to your inquiry. Contact information is not sold or used for marketing. It may be processed by the technical services required to transmit, deliver, and respond to the message.

Analytics: Google Analytics 4, delivered through Google Tag Manager, is used to understand website performance and general visitor interaction. It may collect information such as browser type, device category, screen size, approximate geographic location, referring pages, pages visited, and interactions with the site.

Google Analytics reports do not provide me with individual visitor IP addresses. Analytics information is used to improve site structure, content, accessibility, usability, and performance.

Cookies and browser storage: Google Analytics may use first-party cookies to distinguish browser sessions and measure site activity. The site chat assistant uses sessionStorage to temporarily preserve conversation history within the current browser tab or session. Cookies and stored site data can be removed through your browser settings.

Hosting and security logs: AWS Amplify and related AWS services may automatically process limited technical information associated with requests to the site. This may include IP address, browser or user-agent information, requested URLs, access timestamps, response status, and diagnostic information.

These records support website delivery, security monitoring, abuse prevention, troubleshooting, and system reliability. They are not used by this website to create marketing profiles of individual visitors.

Site chat assistant: When you use the chat assistant, your question and recent conversation history from the current browser tab are transmitted securely through an AWS-hosted API. The request is processed using OpenAI’s API to generate a contextual response.

  • This website does not create a user account or intentionally maintain a permanent archive of chat conversations.
  • Chat history may remain temporarily in your browser’s sessionStorage until the tab or browser session is closed or stored site data is cleared.
  • AWS, OpenAI, and related technical services may process or temporarily retain request and response data according to their service configurations, terms, and privacy policies.
  • Do not submit passwords, financial information, health information, or other sensitive personal information through the chat assistant.

How Information Is Used

  • To respond to messages submitted through the contact form.
  • To deliver and secure the website and its interactive features.
  • To understand site performance and general usage patterns.
  • To improve the usability, content, accessibility, and performance of the site.
  • To process chat questions and provide contextual responses.
  • To identify technical errors, misuse, or security concerns.

Personal information submitted directly through the site is not sold or used for advertising. Information is shared only as needed with service providers supporting the site’s hosting, analytics, communications, security, and chat functionality.

How Long Information Is Kept

Contact-form messages are retained only as long as reasonably needed to respond to the inquiry and maintain relevant communication records.

Google Analytics data is retained according to the settings configured for the site’s Analytics property. Aggregated reports and metrics may remain available separately from user-level and event-level information.

Hosting, security, API, and diagnostic records are retained according to the configurations and policies of the applicable AWS and technical services.

Chat history stored in sessionStorage remains on your device for the current browser-tab session. It is not a permanent website account or conversation history.

Third-Party Services

The following services support the operation, measurement, security, and functionality of this website:

  • Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics: Deliver analytics scripts and collect site-usage and event information.
  • Google Fonts: Delivers font resources used in the site’s presentation.
  • AWS Amplify: Hosts and delivers the website.
  • AWS API Gateway and Lambda: Receive and process requests made through the site chat assistant.
  • OpenAI: Provides the language model used to generate responses from the site chat assistant.
  • cdnjs and Cloudflare: Deliver the DOMPurify library used to sanitize chat content.

Information processed by these providers is governed by their respective service configurations, terms, and privacy policies.

Your Choices and Contact

You can disable or remove cookies and other stored site data through your browser settings. Blocking analytics-related storage may reduce the amount of usage information collected but should not prevent access to the site’s primary content.

You may ask questions about this policy or request access to, correction of, or deletion of information you submitted directly through the contact form by contacting me.

Requests involving information processed independently by Google, AWS, OpenAI, or Cloudflare may also be subject to those providers’ privacy-request procedures and retention requirements.

This privacy policy may be updated when the site’s tools or data practices change. The most recent revision date will appear at the top of this page.