PRIVACY POLICY FOR ERICSTRATE.COM

Effective Date: July 4, 2026

Last Updated: September 17, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes how ericstrate.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your information when you visit this website. This website serves as a personal resume, blog, and professional portfolio.

We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with California data protection laws, including the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended.

1. Information We Do Not Collect

Unlike typical corporate websites, ericstrate.com minimizes data collection:

Information submitted voluntarily through the contact form may include:

name email address message contents website/project information supplied by the user

This is used to respond to inquiries and is not sold for advertising.

• No Marketing or Newsletters: We do not manage email lists or send promotional communications.

• No User Accounts: There is no registration system or login portal available on this site.

2. Information Automatically Collected (Passive Data)

When you navigate ericstrate.com, certain non-identifying technical data may be automatically recorded by our web hosting server or basic analytical infrastructure:

• Log Data: This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed.

• Cookies and Tracking: This site does not deploy third-party advertising cookies, behavioral tracking pixels (e.g., Meta Pixel), or advanced tracking mechanisms. If basic server-side or cookie-free analytics (e.g., Cloudflare Web Analytics) are used, they only process aggregated, anonymous traffic metrics.

3. How We Use Your Information

Any passively collected technical data is strictly utilized to:

• Ensure the security, stability, and operational integrity of the website.

• Monitor generic server performance and technical errors.

4. Third-Party Sharing and Data Sales

• No Sale or Sharing of Data: We do not sell, rent, trade, or share any personal data with third parties for marketing or commercial monetization.

• No Financial Incentives: We do not offer financial incentives or loyalty discounts in exchange for consumer data.

5. California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA Notice)

If you are a California resident, California law grants you specific rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to Know/Access: The right to confirm whether we process your personal data and to request disclosure of the specific categories of data collected.

• Right to Delete: The right to request the erasure of personal data collected from you.

• Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: The right to block the sale or sharing of your data (Note: We do not sell or share data, making this automatically active).

• Right to Non-Discrimination: The right to exercise your privacy rights without facing discriminatory treatment or reduced site functionality.

Exercising Your Rights: Because ericstrate.com does not collect or maintain names, emails, or consumer identities, we generally have no verifiable way to link an access request to an individual visitor. If you wish to query server log files or submit a request, you may contact the site operator directly via the contact methods listed on our public professional profiles (such as LinkedIn).

6. Do Not Track (DNT) and Global Privacy Control (GPC)

We respect browser-based privacy settings. Our website structure natively honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out signals and Do Not Track (DNT) requests by refraining from initiating behavioral cross-site tracking or commercial scripts.

7. Children’s Privacy

This website is a professional portfolio intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly target or collect personal information from individuals under the age of 13, in alignment with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

8. WACP Answer Lab

WACP Answer Lab is a public tool service operated on ericstrate.com that can audit webpages, create draft Web Answer Citation Protocol (WACP) markup, and validate WACP structure. When the service is used, it may receive a webpage URL, webpage HTML supplied for analysis, WACP questions and draft answer text, and supporting quotations. Users should not submit passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, payment information, protected health information, government identifiers, or other sensitive personal data.

For public URL audits and validation, retrieved public HTML may be reused from a small server-side cache for up to approximately 15 minutes. Expired entries are removed on subsequent cache activity, although physical cleanup on an idle site may occur later according to the hosting environment. HTML supplied directly in a request and WACP build results are request-local and are not intentionally stored as persistent WACP Answer Lab application records. The hosting provider and website security infrastructure may process ordinary access and security logs, such as IP address, request time, user agent, requested URL, and error or security events, according to the hosting configuration and retention practices.

WACP Answer Lab uses submitted information only to perform the requested audit, drafting, validation, security, abuse-prevention, and service-reliability functions. The service does not sell submitted data and does not use submitted page content to train a model operated by ericstrate.com. For a public URL request, the service may retrieve the identified public webpage and return results to the requesting client, such as ChatGPT. WACP Answer Lab does not automatically publish or modify the audited website.

Users control which URLs, HTML, questions, answers, and quotations they submit and may supply HTML directly when public retrieval is unavailable. Questions or privacy requests concerning WACP Answer Lab may be submitted through the contact page.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this policy at our discretion. Any modifications will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” timestamp.