What is collected

Almost nothing. There is no analytics, no tracking pixel, no advertising network, and no script that profiles or tracks you. No cookies are set. Nothing is written to local storage. Two forms can receive something you type — the contact form and the newsletter subscribe form, both described below, and only when you choose to submit them. Every other page has no way to receive your name, your email address, or anything else about you.

Every page is a static file, built ahead of time. The site's own JavaScript is one small script — the navigation menu, about sixty lines — and it talks to no one. On the live domain Cloudflare adds one more: a small script that decodes the contact email address. The address is scrambled in the page so bots can't harvest it, and the script unscrambles it in your browser so a real reader can see it. It runs locally, from this domain, and reports nothing.

What your browser loads

Only files from this domain — the page, its stylesheet, the fonts, and any exhibits. No fonts, scripts or images are fetched from anyone else, so no third party learns that you visited.

Links out to other sites (FRED, GitHub, LinkedIn, academic sources) are ordinary links. They load nothing until you click them, and once you do, you are on someone else's site under their policy.

Server logs

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes the request data needed to deliver a page and to protect the network — IP address, user agent, the URL requested. That is Cloudflare's processing, under Cloudflare's privacy policy, not something added here. I have not enabled Cloudflare Web Analytics, and I do not read visitor logs.

Downloads

The workbooks attached to research notes are plain files. Downloading one is a normal request for a static file — nothing is recorded beyond the host's ordinary logs described above, and the files themselves contain no tracking of any kind.

The contact form

The contact page holds one of the site's two forms. When you send it, the name, email address, and message you typed are delivered straight to my inbox by an email provider (Resend) so I can read and reply. That is the whole purpose: there is no database and no analytics attached to it. Your message is not stored anywhere on this site, and sending it does not subscribe you to the newsletter — that is a separate, opt-in form, described next.

To keep automated spam out, the form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which runs a small script from Cloudflare on the contact page to tell a real person from a bot without a puzzle to solve. It is the only third-party script anywhere on the site, and it loads only on /contact. Cloudflare processes that check under its Turnstile Privacy Addendum; Cloudflare states Turnstile does not use this data for advertising and does not track people across sites.

The newsletter

The subscribe box — on the home page and the subscribe page — sends the email address you enter to EmailOctopus, the service that stores the subscriber list and sends the letters. It uses double opt-in: you get a confirmation email and are not added until you click it, so no one can be signed up without consenting. Your address is used only to send the research letters — each with an unsubscribe link — and it is not shared or sold. Sending a letter is a manual step; publishing on the site never emails anyone.

If you email me

If you write to me directly instead, then I have your email because you sent it to me, and I use it to reply. It is not added to the newsletter or any other list. Mail is handled by the provider the address forwards to.

If that changes

If this site ever gains an analytics tool, or anything else that collects data beyond the two forms described above, this page will say so before it ships — and the repository's history will show when it changed.

Contact

Questions about this page, or anything else: [email protected].

Ken Capital is an independent research portfolio published by KenKen Studios LLC. Nothing on this site is investment advice.