Last updated: July 25, 2026

This policy covers this website only — the blog at varunpant.com.

It does not cover any app. Apps are separate products, distributed through app stores, and each has its own privacy policy that stands entirely on its own. Nothing in this website policy applies to them, and nothing in an app’s policy applies to this website. App pages hosted here carry no analytics, no ads and no cookies of any kind.

This page collects nothing. It loads no analytics, no ads, no cookies and no comments — you can read the policy without being measured for reading it.

Summary

This site is a personal blog. There are no accounts, no logins, and nothing is sold. On blog pages, cookies are used for analytics and advertising, and they are only set if you accept them in the consent banner. Declining leaves the site fully usable.

When you first visit, a non-blocking banner asks whether you accept cookies for analytics and advertising. Until you accept:

  • Google Analytics and Google AdSense are loaded in a consent-denied state and do not write analytics or advertising cookies.
  • Your choice is stored in your browser’s localStorage under vp-consent. This is not a cookie, is not transmitted anywhere, and exists only so the banner does not reappear on every page.

You can change your mind at any time by clearing this site’s data in your browser, which makes the banner appear again on your next visit.

Analytics

If you accept, this site uses Google Analytics 4 to understand which posts people read. It records information such as pages viewed, approximate location (derived from IP, not stored by this site), device type, and referring site. It is used only in aggregate. No attempt is made to identify individual visitors, and the data is not sold or shared.

See Google’s privacy policy.

Advertising

If you accept, this site displays ads via Google AdSense, which may use cookies to serve and measure ads. With Google Consent Mode v2, ad personalisation and ad measurement remain disabled unless you accept.

You can manage ad personalisation at Google Ad Settings.

Comments

Blog comments are provided by Disqus, which loads only on post pages and sets its own cookies if you interact with it. Any account you create belongs to Disqus, not to this site. See the Disqus privacy policy.

Hosting

This site is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub may process request metadata such as IP addresses for security and to serve the site. See the GitHub Privacy Statement.

Data I Hold

I hold no database of visitors. There is no mailing list, no contact form, and no user accounts. If you email me, I keep that email in order to reply to you.

Your Rights

If you are in the UK or EU, you have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of personal data held about you. Since this site holds none beyond aggregate analytics, in practice this means opting out via the consent banner or contacting me about any email correspondence.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy is updated, the changes will appear on this page with a new date above.

Contact

Email: varun@varunpant.com

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