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No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.
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Necessary Information: Log files are maintained and analyzed for visitors and for all requests for files on this site’s web servers. Log files capture the user’s IP address, which is automatically recognized by our web servers.
Location of Data: This website is hosted on InMotion Hosting servers in the United States, and all data that we control are kept on these servers. You can read about InMotion Hosting’s GDPR compliance measures here.
Analytics: This site uses analytics services created by Matomo to monitor, for example, the overall popularity of the site and typical user paths through the site. The data gathered by this services is anonymized, randomized, and does not contain personally identifiable information. It also does not use cookies. The data is stored on our servers and not shared with third parties.
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