Privacy Policy

Who runs this site?

This website, dev.kgivler.com, is operated by Kyle Givler. This policy applies to this site and messages you send me through it. It does not automatically apply to other websites I host or to services linked from here.

When you contact me

The contact form asks for your name, email address, and message. You can also provide a phone number and subject. I store your submission, its date and time, and a status such as new or read in databases I operate. Older inquiries remain in my previous contact database, which I keep for historical access.

I use the information to read and respond to your inquiry, discuss potential work, and keep track of conversations. Please don't include passwords, payment card details, health records, or other sensitive information in your message.

I use a self-hosted ntfy server for contact notifications. When enabled, it receives a brief notification about the inquiry rather than your full contact message.

My HappyContact delivery system can also send complete submissions to my email inbox through Mailjet, a third-party email delivery provider. When that delivery is used, Mailjet processes the details needed to relay your message, including your name, email address, any optional phone number or subject, and the full message. Your email address may be used as the reply-to address so I can respond. The older contact-form backend stores inquiries locally without this email relay.

When you browse the site

Like most websites, the server handles technical request information. My application logs request paths, IP addresses, methods, and request duration to help operate and troubleshoot the service.

Homepage visits can also be recorded in my Mission Control monitoring system, including your IP address, browser user-agent, requested path, and referring page where provided by your browser. This is operational visit telemetry, not a public display of your personal details.

IP addresses may be used temporarily to limit contact-form spam and abuse. The site does not currently include advertising pixels or third-party analytics JavaScript.

Who else handles information?

I use hosting, networking, and security providers to keep this site accessible, including Cloudflare for web traffic delivery. Those providers may process connection information as part of delivering the site. Brief contact notifications go to an ntfy server I operate myself. Complete contact messages may also be relayed through Mailjet as described above.

I don't sell contact messages or use them to build an advertising audience. I may disclose information if required by law or necessary to investigate abuse or protect the service. If you choose to open GitHub or LinkedIn links, those sites have their own privacy practices.

How long is it kept?

Contact messages are kept while they are useful for responding to inquiries and maintaining relevant business records. There is not currently an automatic deletion schedule for contact submissions. You can ask me to review or delete a message, subject to any records I need to keep for legal or legitimate business reasons.

Contact submissions may also be included in encrypted recovery backups stored on other servers I operate. Backup copies are retained according to backup schedules and may remain after a message is removed from the live database until those copies expire.

Server logs and monitoring events are kept according to the operational settings of the systems involved; retention periods may differ. I take reasonable steps to limit access to stored messages and operational data, but no internet service can promise perfect security.

Your questions and choices

You can contact me to ask what information I've kept from an inquiry or request a correction or deletion. I'll review requests and respond as appropriate under applicable law.

You don't need an account to browse this site or send a message through the contact form.

Customer websites and updates

If I host a site for a customer, that site may have its own privacy policy and data collection practices. My hosting terms explain the customer's responsibility for their own site's content and notices. Special handling of personal information needs to be agreed on before hosting starts.