Who runs this site
This is the personal website of Joseph Bankole, based in Montreal, Canada. It is a one-person site. There is no company behind it, no team with access to anything, and no third party I sell or share data with.
What the site does not do
There are no accounts and no login. There is no contact form, no comment section, and nothing you can upload or post. There are no files to download. I do not run advertising, and no advertising or data-broker trackers are loaded anywhere on this site. I never sell, rent, or trade information about visitors, because I do not hold anything worth selling.
Analytics: what I actually measure
Every page on this site except the 404 page loads PostHog, a product-analytics tool, through one shared script. I use it to answer two questions: how many people read a page, and did anyone click through to book a consultation, open the newsletter, or visit a project or social link. That is the whole list. Specifically it records:
- A page view when any page loads.
- A click event if you click a "book a consultation" link, a newsletter link, a link out to one of my projects, or a link to my LinkedIn or Instagram. The event stores which link and which page it was on, not who clicked it.
PostHog also receives the technical basics that any web request carries: your IP address, browser, and rough location derived from that IP. I have deliberately turned off autocapture, which means PostHog is not recording every click, scroll, keystroke, or form field on the page. It only sees the events listed above. I honour Do Not Track, so if your browser sends that signal, PostHog is disabled entirely for your visit.
Cookies
This site sets no cookies of its own. PostHog is configured to use browser localStorage rather than cookies, so it stores a random, anonymous identifier in your browser to avoid double-counting the same visitor. That identifier is not linked to a name, an email, or anything else about you. Clearing your browser storage erases it.
One exception worth naming honestly: the newsletter sign-up box on the homepage is an embedded Substack frame. Substack is a separate company and may set its own cookies inside that frame. That is outside my control, and it is covered by Substack's privacy policy, not this one.
Who else sees your visit
Even on a site as simple as this one, a handful of other companies see that a request happened. In the interest of being straight about it:
- GitHub Pages hosts these files. GitHub receives standard server-log information, including your IP address. See GitHub's privacy statement.
- PostHog receives the analytics events described above.
- Google Fonts serves the typefaces. Loading them means Google sees your IP address.
- Substack serves the newsletter embed on the homepage.
- Calendly only if you click a booking link, at which point you leave this site and anything you enter there is between you and Calendly.
If you email me at partnerships@josephbankole.ca, I have your message and your email address, for the obvious reason that you sent them to me. I use them to reply to you and nothing else. I do not add you to a mailing list, and I do not pass your address to anyone.
Links to other sites
This site links out to LinkedIn, GitHub, Instagram, Substack, Calendly, and to my other projects, along with sources cited in the writing. Once you follow a link, you are on someone else's site under their rules. I have no control over what they collect and no visibility into it.
Children
This site is aimed at working professionals. It is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Your choices
Turn on Do Not Track in your browser and analytics stop for you entirely. Block scripts, use a content blocker, or clear your browser storage and the anonymous identifier disappears. If you want the analytics record of your visit deleted and can tell me roughly when you visited, email me and I will do it, though be aware that with no name attached to any of it, there may be very little to find.
Changes
If I add anything that changes what is collected, I will update this page and change the date at the top. This is a static site kept in version control, so the edit history is a matter of record.
Contact
Questions about any of this go to partnerships@josephbankole.ca. I reply within one business day.