Privacy Policy
What this site collects, why, and how to control it.
This is a personal portfolio, not a business collecting data to sell or profile you. The short version: this site uses Google Analytics to see which pages get read and Hotjar to see how pages are used, and neither sets a tracking cookie until you say yes — Hotjar doesn't load at all until then.
If you accept analytics cookies, Google Analytics 4 collects: which pages you view, how you got here (referrer/search/social), approximate location derived briefly from your IP address (the IP itself isn't stored), device and browser type, how far you scroll, which outbound links and file downloads you click (for example, the CV), and basic engagement time. None of this is tied to your name or email unless you separately email me.
If you accept, Hotjar (a Contentsquare product) also records how you interact with the pages — mouse movement, clicks, taps and scrolling — to build heatmaps and anonymous session recordings, along with device, browser, screen size and approximate country. Contentsquare doesn't store your IP address, and anything typed into form fields is masked, so what you write in the contact form isn't captured.
The Contact page's form doesn't submit anywhere I control — it opens your own email app with a pre-filled draft. I only receive what you choose to send, the normal way any email works.
Only Google Analytics and Hotjar set cookies on this site, and only after you accept them in the banner. No advertising or cross-site tracking cookies are used — this site doesn't run ads, and Google Signals / ad personalization is not enabled. Alongside the cookies below, Hotjar sets a small _cs_c cookie that only stores its own tracking state.
Distinguishes unique visitors. Expires after roughly 2 years.
Persists session state for this property. Also expires after roughly 2 years.
Recognizes the same anonymous visitor across visits in Hotjar. Expires after roughly 13 months.
Groups the pages of a single visit into one recording. Expires after 30 minutes.
This site uses Google's Consent Mode: every tracking signal defaults to denied on every visit until you actively choose. If you accept, that choice is remembered in your browser's local storage so you're not asked again. If you reject, Analytics may still receive anonymous, cookieless pings used only in aggregate — nothing identifiable, and no cookie is set.
Hotjar is stricter: its script isn't loaded at all until you accept, so if you reject or never choose, nothing is sent to Hotjar.
You can change your mind at any time — there's a "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page that reopens this choice. If you withdraw consent, Hotjar's cookies are removed and the page reloads without it.
Analytics data is processed by Google LLC under Google Analytics' standard terms, and by Contentsquare SAS (which owns Hotjar) under its terms. I don't sell, rent, or share visitor data with anyone else. This site doesn't run advertising, retargeting, or third-party marketing pixels of any kind.
Google's privacy policy ↗ and Contentsquare's privacy policy ↗ cover how each handles data as a processor.
Depending on where you live (GDPR in the EU/UK, CCPA/CPRA in California, and similar laws elsewhere), you generally have the right to know what's collected, to withdraw consent at any time, and to ask what's associated with your visit. Since this site doesn't collect anything identifying you by name, most requests are best resolved by simply withdrawing consent via "Cookie settings" — but if you want to ask anything directly, email ksenia.ux@gmail.com.
If what this site collects or how it's used changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it.