# Privacy Policy

**Effective Date:** January 1, 2026  
**Last Updated:** August 23, 2026  
**Website:** [https://maanasa.dev](https://maanasa.dev)  
**Author & Data Controller:** Maanasa Narayan ([mnsnryn@gmail.com](mailto:mnsnryn@gmail.com))

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## 1. Overview & Commitment to Privacy

This Privacy Policy explains the privacy practices for `https://maanasa.dev` (the "Website"), a personal software engineering portfolio and professional website authored by Maanasa Narayan. I value your privacy and believe in minimizing data collection. This website is designed to provide information about my engineering experience, projects, skills, and publications without invading your privacy or harvesting personal data.

## 2. Information We Collect

### A. Non-Personal & Technical Data

This website does **not** use tracking cookies, invasive advertising scripts, fingerprinting, or cross-site tracking mechanisms. When you access the website, standard web server access logs may temporarily record:

- The IP address from which the request was made
- Date and time of the request
- HTTP request method, requested URL, and response status code
- User-Agent header (browser, operating system, or AI crawler information)
- Referrer URL (if provided by your browser)

This information is processed automatically by our hosting infrastructure solely to serve website assets, protect against malicious traffic or denial-of-service attempts, and ensure network security.

### B. Voluntary Information You Provide

If you choose to contact me via email ([mnsnryn@gmail.com](mailto:mnsnryn@gmail.com)), LinkedIn, GitHub, or X, you provide your contact information (such as your name, email address, and message contents). This information is used strictly to read, evaluate, and respond to your inquiry. It is never sold, leased, or shared with third-party marketers.

## 3. Cookies and Local Storage

- **Cookies:** This website does not set any advertising, tracking, or persistent marketing cookies.
- **Local / Session Storage:** Any browser storage mechanisms are used strictly for essential functional enhancements (such as client-side view transition caching).

## 4. Hosting Infrastructure and Analytics

- **Cloudflare Pages / Workers:** This website is hosted and distributed globally via Cloudflare Pages and Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare acts as our Content Delivery Network (CDN) and security reverse proxy. Cloudflare processes requests in accordance with strict global security and privacy standards.
- **Privacy-Preserving Web Analytics:** We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure aggregate visitor metrics (such as page views, country-level geography, and device types). Cloudflare Web Analytics is privacy-first: it does not use cookies, does not collect personal identifiers, and does not track individuals across sites.

## 5. Third-Party Links

This website contains links to external third-party services and profiles, including LinkedIn, GitHub, X (Twitter), and Google. When you click an external link, you leave this website and become subject to the respective third party's privacy policies and terms of service. I encourage you to review their policies.

## 6. AI Crawlers and Content Negotiation

This website supports RFC 9110 HTTP content negotiation to serve clean Markdown representations (`Accept: text/markdown`) to automated AI agents and LLMs. AI crawlers requesting public pages are subject to the permissions specified in `robots.txt` and `llms.txt`.

## 7. Data Retention and Security

Any voluntary communications received via email are retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose of communication or to maintain ongoing professional relationships. Industry-standard TLS encryption is enforced across all connections to `https://maanasa.dev`.

## 8. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or data handling on this website, please reach out via email:

- **Email:** [mnsnryn@gmail.com](mailto:mnsnryn@gmail.com)
- **Website:** [https://maanasa.dev](https://maanasa.dev)
- **Location:** Mountain View / Bay Area, CA, USA