Privacy and analytics
What this site measures, why, and what you can control.
Portfolio visits
This site uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand broad visit patterns such as pages viewed, traffic source, device category and approximate region. I use it to see how people find and read the site, not for ads.
The site's host, Cloudflare, also counts page views and measures how fast pages load (Cloudflare Web Analytics). It sets no cookies, keeps nothing in your browser and doesn't follow you across sites; because it recognizes no individual visitor, it isn't part of the analytics choice below.
Shared regional choice
One optional analytics choice is shared across eliasshieh.com and its subdomains. It covers both GA4 visits and Odyssey’s first-party Cloudflare D1 game events. In the EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland, neither starts until you allow it. Elsewhere they start automatically, but declining or withdrawing at any time in “Analytics settings” disables both. Advertising storage, ad user data and ad personalization remain disabled.
Odyssey product signals
When optional analytics is active, Odyssey Bow Trial records anonymous, first-party product events in Cloudflare D1: for example a landing, game start, completion, share handoff or challenge. These events follow the same shared choice as GA4. The product analytics store does not keep names, email addresses, full IP addresses or full user-agent strings, and raw visitor, session, run and challenge identifiers are not public.
Preference cookie
If you explicitly allow, decline or later withdraw optional analytics, the choice is saved for 180 days in elias_analytics_consent. The cookie is shared across eliasshieh.com and its subdomains, and the choice controls both GA4 and Odyssey D1 events. Automatic activation outside the regions listed above does not create an “allowed” preference cookie.
Services and contact
Cloudflare processes requests to deliver and protect the sites. Google processes GA4 data under its own terms. For a privacy question or data concern, email shiehharry@gmail.com.
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