Privacy
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I’m Eddie Freeman. This is my personal site. This page explains what happens to your information when you use it, in plain language, because a policy you can’t read isn’t much of a promise.
The short version
- No accounts. There’s nothing to sign up for.
- No advertising, no ad networks, no cross-site tracking. Nothing here follows you anywhere else.
- Nothing is sold or shared for marketing. Not now, not later.
- No session recording. I don’t replay your visit or watch your mouse move.
- No database of visitors. When you fill in a form, the details reach me and are not saved into a database here.
If you only read this far, that’s the substance of it.
What you send me on purpose
Two forms on this site ask for something: the request for access to A.I.R., and the request for a copy of my resume. Both ask for your email address and a short note about why you’re asking. The resume form also asks which format you want.
When you submit one:
- The details are sent to a private channel I read, so I can respond.
- If you’re asking for resume PDFs, links come straight back to your browser.
- If you’re asking for A.I.R. access and I approve it, you get an email with an access code.
They aren’t written to a database. The site has no visitor table, no CRM, no mailing list. Your note lives in the message I received and in the signed link that carries it, and nothing else.
One detail worth knowing: an A.I.R. access code issued to you has your email address encoded inside it. That’s deliberate — it means a code that gets passed around can be traced back to who it was issued to. It also means the code is personal to you and worth treating like a password.
I’ll use your address to reply to you about what you asked for. I won’t add you to a newsletter, because there isn’t one.
If you ask A.I.R. a question
A.I.R. answers questions about my work using things I’ve written, and it’s currently available by invitation.
- Your question is sent to Anthropic, whose model generates the answer. It is covered by their terms and privacy practices, not just mine.
- Your question and the answer are recorded in my analytics for 30 days, then automatically deleted. I read them to find out where A.I.R. gives a poor answer or has nothing useful to say — that’s how it gets better.
- They are not linked to your email address or your identity. The record shows what was asked and what came back, not who asked it.
- If you rate an answer, that rating is recorded against the answer. If you add a comment, please don’t put anything sensitive in it — it’s a free-text box and I read what arrives.
Don’t send A.I.R. anything confidential. It’s a public-facing feature backed by a third-party model, and it isn’t the right place for private information.
The resume PDFs have your email in them
If I send you a resume PDF, your email address is written into the file itself as a small line of text.
I’m telling you rather than hiding it. The reason is simple: my full resume has contact details that aren’t published on this site, and the watermark means a copy that gets forwarded can be traced back to the request it came from. It’s attribution, not restriction. You can read it, print it, and share it with your team — I’d just rather it not end up on a scraper site with no idea where it came from.
What’s collected automatically
Analytics. I use PostHog to see whether the site works — which pages load, where something breaks, and whether A.I.R. is answering well. It’s configured narrowly on purpose:
- Events are anonymous. I don’t create a profile for you and I don’t attach your email address to anything.
- No session replay, no heatmaps, no scroll tracking.
- Automatic click-and-form capture is switched off, so the contents of form fields and download links are never collected.
- One cookie is set, to tell one visit apart from another.
Server logs. Cloudflare hosts this site, so it necessarily handles your IP address to deliver a page to you, and keeps short-lived request logs. That’s ordinary hosting, not something extra I’ve added.
Rate limiting. The request forms allow a handful of submissions per visitor in a short window, so nobody can hammer them. That check uses your IP address, holds it in memory for a few minutes, and never writes it down.
Your theme preference. If you switch between light and dark, that choice is saved in your browser’s local storage. It never leaves your device and it isn’t a cookie.
Who else touches your information
Four services, each doing one job:
| Service | What it’s for | What it sees |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosting, email delivery | Your IP address and requests; the emails I send you |
| Anthropic | Generates A.I.R. answers | The question you asked |
| PostHog | Analytics | Anonymous usage events; A.I.R. questions and answers for 30 days |
| Discord | Where I read incoming requests | Your email address and your note |
Each has its own privacy policy. I’ve kept the list this short deliberately — every additional service is another place your information sits.
How long things are kept
| Thing | How long |
|---|---|
| Your email and note | In the message I received, until I delete it. Not stored in a database. |
| A resume download link | 15 minutes, then it stops working |
| An A.I.R. approval link | 7 days, then it stops working |
| A.I.R. questions and answers | 30 days, then deleted automatically |
| Anonymous usage counts | Kept, with no personal information in them |
| Server logs | A short period, set by Cloudflare |
What I don’t do
- Sell, rent, or trade your information.
- Run advertising or share data with ad networks.
- Track you across other websites.
- Record your session or your keystrokes.
- Add you to a mailing list because you asked for a PDF.
- Use your question to train a model of my own. I don’t train models.
Your choices
Don’t want to be counted? Analytics here are anonymous, but if you’d rather not appear at all, a tracker blocker will stop them and the site works perfectly well without them. Nothing on this site requires analytics to function.
Want your details removed? Email me at privacy@eddie.engineering and I’ll delete what I have and tell you what it was. Since almost nothing is stored, this is usually a short conversation.
Want a copy of what I hold? Same address. Same answer, usually.
If you’re in the UK or EU, you have rights over your personal data under the GDPR — including access, correction, deletion, and objection. I’m one person running a small site, so the honest route to exercising any of them is to email me and ask.
Children
This site is aimed at people interested in my professional work. It isn’t directed at children, and I don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
Changes
If what the site does changes, this page changes with it. The date at the top tells you when it was last true. Material changes get a note here rather than a quiet edit.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a request about your data: privacy@eddie.engineering.
If something on this page doesn’t match what the site actually does, that’s a bug and I’d like to know about it.