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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2, 2026

Nobody actually reads a privacy policy, and asheraw.com isn’t going to pretend otherwise. Here’s the whole thing in plain English first. The full, detailed version is below it for anyone who wants it.

The 30-second version

  • We only collect your name, email, or message when you type them in yourself -- through the contact form or a comment. Nothing is collected before that.
  • A comment's email address is never shown publicly. Only Asher can see it.
  • Analytics tracking is off by default. It only turns on if you click “Accept” on the cookie banner, and you can decline it entirely.
  • We never sell your data, and there are no ad trackers or retargeting pixels on this site.
  • Your IP address is logged briefly on submissions, only to catch spam — not to track what you do on the site.
  • We use a small number of trusted services (listed below) to run the site — never to profit from your data.
  • There's no email newsletter yet, but if one launches: joining is opt-in only, and a sponsor paying to be mentioned in an email is not the same as us selling your email address to anyone — we don't do the second one, ever.
  • Want anything deleted? Email us and we’ll remove it — no forms, no runaround.

Who this is

asheraw.com is Asher Aw’s personal site — a blog and portfolio, not a company collecting data at scale. This policy covers everything the site itself collects. It doesn’t cover other websites it might link to.

Information we collect

What you type in yourself

  • Contact form: your name, email, phone number (optional), and message.
  • Comments:your name, email, and comment text. The email is stored so Asher can reply if needed — it’s never displayed publicly.
  • Reply notifications (optional):if you check “email me if there’s a reply” on a comment, that email is used only to send you that one notification, and the subscription automatically expires after 30 days of inactivity. You can unsubscribe with one click from any notification email.

What’s collected automatically

  • IP address:logged when you submit the contact form or a comment, purely to catch spam and abuse (e.g. blocking repeat submissions from an address already marked as spam). It isn’t used to track your activity on the site.
  • Analytics (only with your consent):if you click “Accept” on the cookie banner, Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager) collects standard usage data — pages visited, general location (country/city level), device type. This stays off entirely if you click “Decline,” or if you never respond to the banner.
  • Broken-link tracking:if you land on a 404 page, the URL you tried to reach and the page that linked you there get logged, so Asher can fix broken links. This isn’t tied to you personally in any way — no IP address, no identifying information.

How this information is used

Only for the reason you gave it to us in the first place:

  • Responding to a message sent through the contact form.
  • Moderating and, where relevant, replying to a comment.
  • Sending a reply notification you specifically opted into.
  • Understanding, in aggregate, how the site is used (only with analytics consent).
  • Spotting and blocking spam.

Nothing here is ever sold, rented, or shared with advertisers, and there’s no cross-site ad tracking or retargeting on this site.

If a newsletter launches

There’s no email newsletter on asheraw.com today, but it’s a real possibility down the line — so this is written ahead of time rather than after the fact:

  • Joining would always be opt-in. You’d type your own email into a dedicated subscribe form — leaving a comment or using the contact form would never add you to it.
  • Every issue would carry a one-click unsubscribe link, honored immediately, no login or account needed.
  • Sponsoring the newsletter is not the same as selling your data, and this site will never confuse the two. If an issue is ever sponsored, that means a sponsor paid to have their own message included in an email Asher writes and sends himself — it does not mean they receive your email address, or anything else about you. You’d always be hearing from asheraw.com, never directly from a sponsor. Your email address is not sold, rented, or handed over to anyone, sponsored issue or not.

Once a newsletter actually exists, this section (and the “Third-party services” list below, if a dedicated email-marketing tool ends up handling it) will be updated with the real details — not left as a placeholder.

Cookies

This site uses a small note saved in your browser to remember whether you accepted or declined analytics — that choice is respected until you clear your browser data or change your mind. If you accept, Google Analytics sets its own standard cookies to do its job. If you decline (or never answer), no analytics cookies are set at all. No cookies are used for advertising.

Third-party services this site relies on

Running a site at all means trusting a handful of infrastructure providers to do specific jobs. Here’s every one of them, and what each actually touches:

  • Sanity— stores everything submitted through the contact form and comments.
  • Resend— delivers the emails this site sends (a contact form notification to Asher, a reply notification to you if you opted in). Doesn’t see anything beyond the content of that one email.
  • Vercel— hosts the site itself.
  • Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager— only loads if you accept the cookie banner. See “Cookies” above.

How long we keep it

Contact messages and comments are kept so Asher can respond to and moderate them, and aren’t deleted on any fixed schedule. A comment moved to Trash is permanently deleted after 30 days if not restored. If you’d like something removed sooner, see below — it’s a quick request, not a formal process.

Your choices

  • Decline analytics cookies at any time from the consent banner.
  • Unsubscribe from a reply notification with one click, from any notification email.
  • Ask for a comment, contact submission, or any other data tied to you to be corrected or deleted, by emailing [email protected].

Children’s privacy

This site isn’t directed at children, and no information is knowingly collected from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has submitted information here, contact us and it’ll be removed.

Changes to this policy

If this page changes in any meaningful way, the “Last updated” date at the top will change with it. Worth a glance every so often, but there’s no separate notification system for policy updates.

Questions?

Just ask. Email [email protected] or use the Connect page.