The short version
- No accounts, sign-ups, analytics, ads, or tracking cookies.
- I don’t sell or share personal information.
- A few small items (your light/dark choice, ARGU Daily progress, your Statistics data, your APA reference list, and your Poster Studio design) are saved in your own browser, and you can clear them anytime.
- The companies that host the site and serve its fonts receive basic technical data, like your IP address, when your browser loads a page.
Who I am
This site is run by M Enam Ull Hassan, a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics based in Boston, Massachusetts. You can reach me about privacy at hello@enamhassan.com.
What I collect
I don’t collect personal information through this site. There are no forms, sign-ups, comment boxes, analytics tools, or advertising trackers.
If you email me
If you write to me, I receive your email address, your name if you include it, and your message. I use this only to read and reply to you, and I keep it only as long as the conversation needs. You can ask me to delete it.
Email sent to hello@enamhassan.com is forwarded by Cloudflare’s email routing service to my personal Gmail account, so Cloudflare and Google handle it on the way.
Saved in your browser
The site saves a few small items in your browser’s local storage so it can remember your choices and your work:
- Theme: whether you picked light or dark mode.
- ARGU Daily progress: which stages you’ve completed, your stars, and whether you’ve seen the help screen.
- Statistics Step by Step data: the numbers you typed into “My data.”
- APA 7 Guide reference list: the references you built or pasted, and the source type you used last.
- Poster Studio design: the poster, slides, flyer, or handout you are working on, including any images you added, so you can continue later.
These stay on your device and are never sent to me. You can view and clear them on the Cookie Settings page.
What you type into the tools
Words, sentences, maps, and designs (including images you add to Poster Studio) you enter into the tools are processed entirely in your browser. They aren’t sent to me or stored on any server.
One exception is the APA 7 Guide’s automatic fill-in. When you enter a DOI or an ISBN and press Fill in, your browser sends only that DOI or ISBN to a public catalogue to look up the source: Crossref or doi.org for a DOI, and Google Books or Open Library (run by the Internet Archive) for an ISBN. Like any website, these services receive basic technical information such as your IP address. Nothing else you type is sent, and nothing is sent unless you press Fill in.
Another small exception: when you download a semantic map drawn in the handwriting style, your browser fetches that font (Kalam) from Google Fonts. To keep the file small, the request lists the individual letters your map uses, but not your words or sentences.
One more: when you open a PDF in the Word Cloud Maker, your browser downloads a free PDF reader (PDF.js, made by Mozilla) from jsDelivr, a public service that hosts open-source code. Only the reader program is downloaded. Your PDF is read on your own device and is never uploaded. Word and text files don’t need this download.
Services that help run the site
- GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.) hosts the site. GitHub logs visitors’ IP addresses for security purposes. See the GitHub Privacy Statement.
- Google Fonts (Google LLC) provides the site’s fonts. When your browser downloads them, Google receives technical information such as your IP address and browser type. See the Google Fonts FAQ and Google Privacy Policy.
- jsDelivr serves the PDF reader used by the Word Cloud Maker, only when you open a PDF there. Like any website, it receives technical information such as your IP address. See the jsDelivr Privacy Policy.
- Cloudflare manages the domain name and forwards email sent to hello@enamhassan.com. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
When you follow a link to another site, such as LinkedIn, that site’s own privacy policy applies.
Children
Students of any age can use the learning tools. Because the site collects no personal information, it doesn’t knowingly collect any from children. If you believe a child has emailed me personal information, contact me and I’ll delete it.
Your choices and rights
You can clear the site’s saved preferences at any time on the Cookie Settings page or in your browser settings. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal information about you. Since the only personal information I might hold is email you’ve sent me, just write to hello@enamhassan.com and I’ll help.
Security
The site is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, I’ll update it here and change the date at the top of the page.