PRIVACY

The site should collect as little as possible and make the rest obvious.

This page explains what information Shank Strategy Ops may receive through the site, why it is used, and what third parties are involved in delivering core functionality.

Information you provide directly

If you use the contact form, the site receives the information you submit, including your email address, any optional name you provide, and the message itself. That information is used only to review and respond to your inquiry.

Contact submissions are not sold, rented, or repackaged as a mailing list product.

Services used to run the site

The contact workflow uses Resend for email delivery and Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection. Those services may process technical information needed to complete their role, such as request metadata or bot-check results.

The site host may also generate standard server logs used for reliability, debugging, and abuse prevention.

Analytics

The site uses Google Analytics (GA4) to understand aggregate traffic patterns, such as which pages are read and where visitors come from. Google Analytics sets cookies and may receive information including IP-derived approximate location, device and browser details, and pages viewed. This data is used to measure site performance, not to build advertising profiles.

The site also uses Vercel Web Analytics, provided by the host, to count page views and see which sites visitors arrive from. It is cookieless and aggregate: it sets no cookies, does not assign a persistent identifier, and does not follow visitors to other sites.

Readers who prefer not to be measured can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or block analytics cookies using their browser or extension of choice.

Cookies and ad measurement

The site is designed to function without requiring user accounts. Two Google tags load on every page: the analytics tag described above, and a Google Ads tag that records whether a visit arrived from an ad I placed elsewhere and whether it led to a contact form submission. The Ads tag can set first-party cookies for that attribution. The Vercel Web Analytics script also loads on every page and sets no cookies at all.

That is measurement of ads I buy on other platforms. The site itself does not sell or display advertising. If that changes, this page will say so before it happens, not after.

How information is used

Information received through this site may be used to respond to inquiries, operate the contact workflow, prevent abuse, maintain security, and understand whether the site is functioning correctly.

The site does not offer user accounts, private dashboards, or paid subscriber areas at this time, so there is no account-profile tracking model behind the scenes.

Questions or requests

Privacy questions can be sent to [email protected]. If this policy changes materially, the page should be updated so the current version remains the public source of truth.