This is a personal portfolio, not a product collecting your data for profit. Here's exactly what happens when you use it.

// browsing the site

No analytics, no tracking pixels, and no cookies are used anywhere on this site. Nothing about your visit is logged or shared with a third party for advertising or tracking purposes.

// the chat widget

The "ask about henry" chat widget sends whatever you type to a backend endpoint I run, which uses Google's Gemini API to generate a response grounded in this site's content. To prevent abuse, your IP address is briefly checked against a rate limit (via Upstash Redis) and then discarded, it is not linked to your messages or stored long-term. Chat messages are not saved to a database and are not retained once your session ends; they exist only long enough to generate a reply.

// contact & email

The "Email" link on the contact page opens your own email client via a mailto: link. Anything you send that way goes straight to my inbox the same as any other email; it doesn't pass through this site or get stored anywhere by the site itself.

// questions

If you have any questions about how this site handles data, email me and I'll answer directly.