This site collects nothing. There is no newsletter, no comments, no forms, no analytics, no cookies, and no third-party trackers. I have no way of knowing who is reading, and I prefer it that way.
Effective Date: Monday, April 27th, 2026
Summary
If you remember nothing else, remember this:
- North Engineer is a static website. It is a folder of HTML files served over the internet.
- I collect no information about you. I have no mechanism to.
- I don’t know you’re here.
1. Who I Am
North Engineer is a personal technology blog operated at https://north.engineer. The site is generated from my notes using Quartz, a static site generator, and published as plain HTML.
Contact: the@north.engineer
2. What I Collect From You
Nothing.
There is no signup form, no contact form, no comments section, no newsletter, no account system, no search box that reports back to me, and no input field of any kind anywhere on this website. There is nothing for you to submit, and nothing for me to store.
I do not run analytics. I do not use pixels, tags, fingerprinting scripts, behavioral tracking, or session replay. I do not place cookies. I do not log visits. I have no dashboard that tells me how many people are reading, where they came from, what they clicked, or how long they stayed.
By design, I have no idea who you are or that you are here.
3. What My Hosting Provider Sees
I want to be honest about one thing that is true of every website on the internet: when your browser asks for a page, the server that delivers the page necessarily receives the request, and that request includes your IP address and a user-agent string. The provider that hosts and distributes this site may write those request details into operational logs for security, abuse prevention, and reliability purposes.
I do not access those logs, do not analyze them, and do not connect them to any other information. They are processed by the hosting provider for its own infrastructure operations under its own privacy policy and legal basis.
4. Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own. No cookie banner is displayed because there is nothing to consent to.
5. Third-Party Content
Where a post embeds content hosted elsewhere — for example, a video, an image, a code snippet, or a link preview from another service — your browser will request that resource directly from the third party. When it does, the third party will see the request, including your IP address, and may set its own cookies or apply its own logging. I do not control what those services do, and their handling of the request is governed by their own privacy policies.
If you would prefer to avoid third-party requests entirely, browser extensions that block trackers will work as expected on this site, because there is nothing of mine for them to interfere with.
6. Visitors From the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
If you are visiting from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (and its UK equivalent) gives you a set of rights over personal data that is processed about you — including the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to data portability, the right to object to processing, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
Because this site does not collect or process any personal data about you, there is no data for me to give you access to, correct, port, delete, or restrict. There is no controller-to-data-subject relationship between us with respect to anything I run. If you write to me at the@north.engineer to ask, I will confirm in writing that I hold nothing.
To the extent your IP address is incidentally received and logged by the hosting provider that delivers this site, that processing is done by the hosting provider in its own capacity as a controller, under its own legitimate-interest basis for network security and abuse prevention. Their privacy policy governs that processing, not this one.
This page is the privacy notice required by Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR for the processing carried out by North Engineer.
7. Visitors From California
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you rights over personal information that businesses collect about you, including the right to know, the right to delete, the right to correct, and the right to opt out of sale or sharing.
I do not collect personal information about you. I do not sell or share personal information about you. There is no category of personal information to disclose, no recipient to identify, and no opt-out mechanism to provide, because there is nothing happening that any of those rights would apply to.
8. Visitors From Anywhere Else
The same answer applies wherever you are reading from: there is no collection, no profiling, no sharing, no sale, and no transfer of your personal data by this site, because there is no personal data. If your jurisdiction grants you rights over data processed about you, those rights are satisfied by the absence of any data to begin with.
9. Children
This site is a personal technology blog and is not directed at children. I do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children, because I do not collect information at all.
10. Security
There is no subscriber database, no account store, and no submitted-content store to secure, because none exists. The site itself is published as static files. I keep the publishing toolchain up to date and follow ordinary good practice for the systems I use to author and deploy it.
11. Changes to This Policy
If I ever add something that does collect or process data — an analytics tool, a comment system, a newsletter, a contact form — I will update this page before turning it on, and I will update the “Effective Date” at the top. As long as this page says I collect nothing, that is the truth.
12. Contact
If you have any question about this policy, or you would like written confirmation that I hold no data about you, email me directly:
Email: the@north.engineer
This Privacy Policy was last updated Monday, April 27th, 2026.