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Analytics
Analytics is off until you choose to allow it. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals are respected. We use aggregate usage to understand whether public pages work; we do not sell personal data. With your consent we use two services, both based in the United States:
- Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) records the pages you view, the site that referred you, your device and browser type, and your approximate location. It also records how far you scroll, clicks on links to other sites, searches on this site, embedded video plays, file downloads and when you start and submit forms (not what you type). It sets cookies named
_gaand_ga_*, which last up to two years. We keep this data in Google Analytics for two months. Google signals and advertising features are turned off in Analytics. - PostHog (PostHog, Inc.) records the pages you view, your device and browser type, and your IP address, which it uses to estimate your approximate location. Automatic click capture, session recording and input capture are disabled. It sets a cookie and a browser-storage entry whose names begin with
ph_. We keep this data for one year.
Use Privacy choices in the footer to withdraw analytics consent at any time.
Advertising
Google AdSense may display advertisements on editorial reading pages only after you enable Advertising in Privacy choices. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and receive browser, network and page information to deliver, measure and personalize ads according to the consent choices applicable to you. Google may present an additional consent message. Analytics consent alone does not enable advertising. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control keep optional collection off.
Use Privacy choices in the footer to change your decision. Withdrawing advertising consent reloads the page to stop the loaded advertising code. Classroom tools, forms and editorial administration are excluded. Read how Google uses information from partner sites.
Newsletter
When you request the newsletter, your email address is encrypted at rest and a keyed hash is used to prevent duplicates. The request remains pending until you confirm it. We keep consent, preference and delivery events needed to operate the subscription and suppress mail after unsubscribe, bounce or complaint.
The single address collected by the former “interest only” form was quarantined. It was not treated as newsletter consent and was not activated.
Hub separation
The Baldwin Industries Hub receives signed aggregate readiness, metrics, source-health and delivery-health data. It never receives subscriber identities, reading history, draft content, private editorial notes or newsletter recipients.
Retention and security
Rate-limit hashes are kept briefly for abuse prevention. Operational and consent records are retained only as needed for delivery, security, legal obligations and correction history. Backups are access-controlled and tested through an additive rollback process.
Your choices
Every newsletter includes preferences and one-click unsubscribe. For access, deletion or privacy questions, contact [email protected]. Some publication and security records may need to be retained for integrity or legal reasons.