Privacy and visitor statistics

This personal academic website collects aggregate page-view statistics to understand where its audience is based.

Approximate locations

The website’s hosting service estimates the country, region or state, and city associated with a page visit’s internet connection. Locations may be missing or inaccurate, particularly when a visitor uses a VPN, proxy or mobile network. The page does not request GPS access or a precise location.

What is saved

The website saves only daily totals for each approximate country, region and city. Its geographic analytics do not save IP addresses, coordinates, names, email addresses, visitor identifiers, browsing histories or individual visit timestamps, and do not set analytics cookies or use browser storage. The aggregate reports are accessible only to the website owner. Reports cover a rolling 365-day window; older totals are deleted as new visits are recorded.

Visits are excluded when the browser sends a Do Not Track signal (DNT: 1) or Global Privacy Control signal (Sec-GPC: 1). Obvious automated traffic is also excluded. These figures count page views rather than unique people.

Hosting and contact

This site is hosted by ChatGPT Sites, which may independently process technical traffic data to operate and secure the service. This notice describes the geographic statistics added to this website.

For questions, contact shengwen.wang@qmul.ac.uk.