Privacy, in plain words.

This site is run by Shivam Bhadoriya, an independent developer based in Navsari, Gujarat, India. There is no company, no data-processing department and no third party managing this on my behalf.

If you want anything on this page explained, corrected or acted on, write to contact@shivambhadoriya.com and it reaches me directly.

No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no third-party trackers of any kind. That is why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.

Two things are stored in your own browser and never sent anywhere: your light or dark theme choice, and a flag recording that you have already seen the opening animation once this session. Both exist purely so the site behaves the way you left it. Clearing your browser data removes both, and nothing breaks.

If you send an enquiry, I receive exactly what you type: your name, your email address, the subject if you fill one in, and your message. It is emailed to me and stored so I can reply and keep a record of the conversation.

Alongside it I store your browser's user-agent string and a one-way cryptographic hash of your IP address. The hash exists only so a repeat spammer can be recognised. Your actual IP address is not written down anywhere I control, and the hash cannot be turned back into it.

The site counts pageviews with its own analytics, built into the site rather than bought from anyone. For each page you open it records the path, the referring site, any campaign tags in the link, your country, and a general description of your device, browser and operating system.

It also records a visitor identifier, and this is the part worth being precise about: it is a cryptographic hash of a daily-rotating secret, your IP address and your browser string. The IP itself is never stored. The hash changes every day at midnight UTC, so today's visits cannot be joined to yesterday's. It is a counter, not a profile.

Some of these numbers are published openly on the /stats page. Nothing there identifies anyone.

That is the complete list. There is no analytics vendor, no CRM, no advertising network and no data broker in the chain.

Enquiries are deleted automatically 24 months after you send them. That is enforced by the database, not by me remembering.

Pageview records are deleted automatically after 180 days, also enforced by the database.

If you want your enquiry deleted sooner, ask and it is gone.

Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, and under the GDPR if you are in the EU or UK, you can ask me to:

Email contact@shivambhadoriya.com with what you want. There is no form to fill in and no account to create. I will reply within 30 days, and usually within 24 hours, because it is one person reading it.

I may ask you to confirm the email address the enquiry came from, so I do not hand your data to somebody else claiming to be you.

This site is a professional portfolio and is not directed at children. I do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has sent an enquiry, tell me and I will delete it.

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. There is no version history to hunt through — what is on this page is what the site currently does.