Privacy

Last updated October 19, 2026

This is a personal career site. It has no accounts, no forms and no comments, so the only information it handles about visitors is described below.

Google Analytics (only if you accept)

When you first visit, a banner asks whether you accept Google Analytics. Until you click Accept, the analytics script is not loaded, nothing is sent to Google, and no analytics cookies are set. If you click Decline, the site works exactly the same.

If you accept, Google Analytics 4 records:

• the pages you view (their address and title) and the site that sent you here;
• clicks on links that lead to other websites (outbound clicks), including the address of the link, for example my LinkedIn profile;
• Google's other automatic measurements, such as scrolling to the bottom of a page or downloading a file;
• general device details Google collects itself: browser, operating system, screen size, language, and an approximate location (city or region) that Google derives from your IP address.

It also sets two cookies on this site, _ga and _ga_<ID>, so that repeat visits from the same browser can be counted. Google sets them to expire after up to two years.

Why

To see whether people find the site, which pages they read, and whether they go on to my LinkedIn profile. The numbers can't show why someone clicked or what they did on the other site. I don't use the data for advertising, and this site never grants Google permission to use it for ads.

Who receives it

• Google receives the analytics data above, under the Google Privacy Policy. I see summary reports in Google Analytics.
• Amazon Web Services hosts the site and its database. My web server receives every request your browser makes and keeps access logs that include your IP address for about 14 days.
• Cloudflare provides the site's DNS and handles the redirect from www.brandondong.me.

I don't sell or share the data with anyone else.

Your choices

• Decline in the banner, and Google Analytics never loads.
• Use Cookie settings in the footer to change your mind at any time. If you withdraw consent, the page reloads without Google Analytics and the site removes its _ga cookies. Data already sent to Google stays in Google Analytics until it expires.
• Your choice itself is saved in your browser's local storage (as analytics-consent) so the banner doesn't ask on every page. Clearing your site data resets it.
• Browser privacy settings, content blockers, or Google's opt-out add-on also block Google Analytics. The site keeps working.

Questions

Email me at bdong4@lion.lmu.edu.