Privacy & optional measurement
Effective October 19, 2026 / Jim Butcher Studio
Your choice
You can use this website without optional measurement. Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity load only after you choose Allow measurement. Declining does not block the website. Use Measurement settings in the footer to change your choice. Browser Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals keep this optional tracking off.
What measurement does
Google Analytics helps us count consenting visits, pages viewed, device/browser categories, and selected actions such as CV downloads, phone-link clicks, directions clicks, and footer-link clicks. An action is not proof of a completed call, visit, lead, purchase, or appointment. We disable enhanced measurement, Google signals and advertising personalization; no advertising accounts or cross-domain user linking are configured. This site strips page query strings and fragments, uses a generic page title, and does not send typed searches, form values, names, email addresses, or phone numbers as analytics event parameters.
Microsoft Clarity provides masked session recordings and heatmaps to understand navigation and friction. Strict text masking is configured and inputs are marked for masking. The tag is not loaded before opt-in. Microsoft may process browser/device, interaction and connection information when measurement is allowed; masking does not make collection anonymous. Do not enter private or sensitive information on this site.
Storage and providers
Your measurement choice is stored in this browser for up to 180 days. If you allow measurement, Google may set first-party measurement cookies. Microsoft Clarity may also set measurement cookies. Declining after allowing clears this site's accessible measurement cookies and reloads the page to stop its loaded tags. That does not erase data providers already received or cookies on other domains. Clearing browser storage or using another device may require a new choice.
Netlify hosts this site and may process IP addresses, request logs, and other connection/security information needed to serve and protect it, independently of optional analytics. We do not operate a visitor account, payment checkout, newsletter form, or advertising audience on this site. External links open or contact other providers with their own privacy practices.
Personal collection
Saved-reading marks stay in your browser; they are not uploaded to a reading account. Public CV and research material are curated for publication; private source records, credentials, internal documents and raw machine logs are not synchronized to this site.
Contact and requests
Questions or requests about this website can be directed through Jim's public LinkedIn profile. We do not claim that browser consent makes this policy a legal certification or that providers retain information indefinitely. Provider controls and applicable law govern available access/deletion options. We will review this notice when our actual practices change.
Google privacy / Microsoft privacy / Netlify privacy
Studio shop links
With optional measurement allowed, clicks on the three featured products send a product-specific click event. A click is not a purchase. These links include fixed campaign labels identifying this website and the public product, not your identity or typed information. Payhip is a separate storefront and checkout with its own privacy and cookie controls; consenting here does not consent there. Payhip provides its own store and order reports. Its optional Google Analytics integration remains disabled pending verification of its pre-consent behavior. No cross-domain user linking or advertising audience has been configured.