What this site knows about you.
And what I do with it.
I track visits to this site. I’m looking for my next role and standing up a consulting practice, and I want to know which companies read these pages, which pages they read, and when. This page says exactly what runs when you open a page, what it records, who holds it, and how to have it deleted.
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Four things run when you open a page
Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare serves this site and adds a small measurement script to each page. It counts page views, referring sites, countries, browsers, and page speed. It sets no cookie and keeps no identifier for you. Cloudflare holds the counts.
My own counter, at the edge
A function on Cloudflare’s network logs each page view with the country, region, and city Cloudflare derives from your connection, the page you opened, the name of the network you’re on, and any tag on the link you followed to get here. An office network can name a company; a home connection names the internet provider. It stores no IP address and sets no cookie. The counts are kept for about 90 days, and only I can read them.
PostHog
Four seconds after a page finishes loading, PostHog’s script starts. It records the pages you view, where you click and scroll, how long you stay, your browser and device, and your approximate location worked out from your IP address. It also records a session replay: a reconstruction of what the page looked like and what you did on it. Anything you type into a field is masked before it leaves your browser.
PostHog gives you a random ID and keeps it in a cookie and in your browser’s local storage, so a return visit joins up with the last one. The data goes to PostHog’s servers in the United States. Events are kept for one year, recordings for 30 days, and the profile under that random ID until I delete it. A visit shorter than four seconds never reaches PostHog at all.
Leadfeeder, by Dealfront
Leadfeeder’s script sends your IP address, the page address and title, and the page you came from to Dealfront. Dealfront matches the IP address against its list of company networks and tells me which company a visit came from. It sets a cookie named
_lfafor a year so the pages in one visit join up. It identifies companies, not people. I get no name from it. Dealfront keeps that data under its own cookie and tracking notice.
What I don’t do
I don’t sell or share this data. There are no ads here, and nothing on this site follows you to other sites. I don’t buy a lookup that puts a name to your visit. One such service turned down my application, and I’ve left it at that. I read this data for one thing: deciding where to spend my attention in a job search.
Until today, visitors from the EU were left out of the counts on purpose. That exclusion is off now, and this page is the first time any of this has been written down.
Your choices
A content blocker that stops PostHog and Leadfeeder leaves this site working. Nothing you can read here depends on either.
If you want what PostHog or Dealfront holds about a visit deleted, message me on LinkedIn with roughly when you visited and from where. I’ll delete the PostHog profile and its recordings and ask Dealfront to delete its record. If you’re in the UK or the EU, the GDPR gives you the right to ask. The request works the same wherever you are.
Who’s responsible
I am. Mathew Hager, the owner of this site, decides what gets collected. PostHog, Inc. and Dealfront process it on my behalf, and Cloudflare, Inc. serves the site and runs the beacon. I wrote this page myself, in plain language, and no lawyer has checked it. If you think it misses something the law requires, tell me.