/PRIVACY

This is the personal portfolio of Dryden Bryson, based in Victoria, BC, Canada. This policy covers dryd3n.ca. You don't need an account to use the site, and the only personal information I ask for is what you choose to send through the contact form.

If you use the contact form, I collect your name, email address, subject and message, and use them only to read and reply to your message. The site has no database of submissions: your message is delivered to my email inbox through Resend, an email delivery service.

I keep messages for as long as they're useful for the conversation, and you can ask me to delete yours at any time.

The site uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. For each view it can record the time, page URL, referring site, approximate location, browser, operating system and device type. It doesn't use third-party cookies. Visitors are distinguished by a hash of the incoming request, which is discarded after 24 hours, and I only see aggregated statistics.

Vercel Speed Insights measures how quickly pages load. It records the page, loading metrics, network speed, browser, operating system, device type and country, and isn't tied to individual visitors.

The site is hosted on Vercel, which, like most hosts, processes technical request data such as IP addresses in order to serve pages and keep them secure.

Some school project documents are loaded directly from jsDelivr, a public content delivery network, which receives your IP address when you open them.

These providers may process data outside Canada, including in the United States. Their own privacy policies apply to that processing.

The site saves your light or dark theme choice in your browser's local storage so it's remembered between visits. That setting stays on your device, and you can remove it by clearing your browser's site data.

While you write a message, the contact form keeps a draft in your browser's session storage so it isn't lost if you visit another page. The draft stays on your device until you send the message or close the tab.

I don't sell your personal information or use it for advertising. It's only shared with the service providers listed above, or if the law requires it.

The site links to other sites, such as GitHub and LinkedIn. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies.

You can ask me what personal information I hold about you, or ask me to correct or delete it, by emailing drydenbryson@dryd3n.ca.

If this policy changes, I'll update it here and change the date at the top of the page.