Privacy & analytics
Updated October 30, 2026
I use analytics to understand how people find and explore Quiet Dissolution, and to help improve the experience.
Your choice
Google Analytics is optional. Its tracking scripts load only if you choose “Allow.” Declining leaves the essays available to read. You can change your choice using the Privacy button on any page.
Your choice is saved in this browser for up to 180 days. It applies on this website, not across your other browsers or devices. Withdrawing permission refreshes the page to stop the loaded tracking scripts and clears this site's accessible Google Analytics cookies. It does not erase information already collected.
What Google Analytics measures
The About reading surface can also produce bounded exposure signals after consent. Opening About is exploration, not evidence of professional intent. Its dedicated URL has its own document page view.
When allowed, Google Analytics measures page visits, essay checkpoints, eligible foreground time, artwork exposure, repeat exploration, navigation and contact-link selections, and technical information such as browser and device category. It uses cookie identifiers to distinguish browsers and visits. These signals help explain patterns; they do not prove that someone read or understood an essay, or liked a painting. Time pauses in hidden tabs, while the privacy panel is open, and after 60 seconds without interaction. Short-lived navigation information is stored in this tab after consent to connect a selected link with arrival. It expires after five minutes and is cleared when analytics is declined. Activity before consent is not replayed.
Advertising consent remains denied. This installation disables Google signals and advertising personalization and requests a 180-day analytics-cookie lifetime. It does not add session recordings or ask readers to provide their names or email addresses.
Google processes analytics data. Read Google's Privacy Policy for details about its handling of information.
Hosting and performance
Typefaces are served from this website. No font request goes to Google. This site does not add advertising pixels, session recordings, or fingerprinting.
Netlify hosts this website and processes request and performance data to deliver and monitor it. That operational measurement is separate from the optional Google Analytics choice. Read Netlify's Privacy Policy for more information.
Sharing what we learn
I may publish selected, aggregated observations about the site and creative process. Those public reflections will not include raw visitor identifiers.
Questions
Contact sam@thesamjones.com about this website's analytics or your privacy choices.