Privacy Policy

What I collect

• Forms and bookings. Name, email, phone number, business name, website address, and whatever you write in the message or scheduling fields. If you start a form and leave before submitting, the fields you already typed may still reach me so I can follow up.
• Chat. Messages you type in the site chat, including any contact details you share there. Transcripts are sent to me.
• Analytics. Pages visited, device and browser type, general location, and how you found the site. If you arrive from an ad, the campaign tags and click identifiers on that link.

How I use it

• Answering your inquiry and scheduling calls
• Seeing which pages and ads work, so I can improve them

I don't sell your information, and I don't add you to a mailing list.

Cookies, and why there’s no banner

Google Analytics sets a cookie to count traffic and tell repeat visits apart. That's the only cookie this site sets on its own. When an ad campaign is running, Google Ads and Meta (Facebook) also set cookies to measure whether an ad led to an inquiry; those scripts don't load when no campaign is running.

You won't see a cookie banner, and that is deliberate. A banner asks permission after the measurement has already happened, and most of them do nothing once you click through. So instead this site reads the privacy signal your browser already sends, either Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. If yours sends one, analytics never loads. No cookie. No pageview. Nothing to opt out of. Brave and the DuckDuckGo browser send that signal on their own, and Firefox sends it once you turn on “tell websites not to sell my data”.

If your browser doesn't send one, you can still block cookies in its settings or install Google's Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The site works the same either way.

Services that handle the data

A few services help run this site, and only see what they need to do their job:

• Vercel, which hosts the site
• Google Analytics and Google Ads, for traffic and ad measurement
• Meta, for ad measurement when campaigns are running
• Web3Forms, which delivers form submissions to my inbox
• Anthropic, which processes chat messages so the chat widget can reply

Inquiries are stored in my own lead-tracking system so I don't lose track of a conversation.

Texts and email

If you leave a phone number, I may text you back about your inquiry, usually to schedule a call. Reply STOP to any text and I'll stop. Message and data rates may apply.

Social media publishing

Stray Web Design also runs a private, self-hosted tool for scheduling and publishing its own social media posts (TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit). Through each platform's official login (OAuth), the tool stores only the access tokens and basic profile information for accounts Stray Web Design owns, and uses them only to publish content Stray Web Design creates. It does not collect, scrape, or store any other user's data, and it is not offered to anyone else. Tokens are kept only while an account stays connected; access can be revoked at any time from the tool or from each platform's connected-apps settings, which invalidates the stored tokens. None of this data is shared or sold.

Do Not Track

Some browsers send a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. I honour both. When the site sees one, analytics is not loaded for that visit at all.

How long I keep it

Inquiries and analytics are kept as long as they're useful for responding to you or running the business. Want your information deleted? Email me and I'll remove it.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email tom@straydesign.co.

Stray Web Design · Erie, PA