Privacy policy

What we collect

If you use the contact form, we receive what you type: your first and last name, email address, and brand name, plus your website link, how you heard about us, and any note you add if you choose to fill those in.

Along with your message, the form sends details of your visit so we can understand your request: a reference number for the message, the page you first landed on, the pages you opened after it and the page you wrote from, the site that sent you and any campaign tags on the link, the sections of the home page you viewed and how far you scrolled on each page, how long you have been on the site, how many times you have visited and the date of your first visit, your screen and window size, language, and time zone, a random session id, and the ID Google Analytics gives your browser.

When the message arrives, our server adds your device and browser, your IP address, your approximate location (city, region, country), and the name of the network or company your internet connection belongs to. We attach the reference number to the Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity records of that visit, so we can see how you used the site.

To see how people find and use the site, we use these tools:

Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights, from our hosting provider, count page views and measure how fast pages load. They record the page visited, the referrer, and coarse device and country data, set no cookies, and never record a personal identifier.

Our own visit log, on our server, records the pages opened and the sections viewed, the referring site, any campaign tags on the link, the button that was used, how far the page was scrolled, how long the visit lasted, device and browser, window size, language, and time zone, the IP address, approximate location (city, region, country), and the name of the network or company the connection belongs to. It also notes the ID Google Analytics gives your browser and, when you send the contact form, the reference number of your message.

Google Analytics shows how people move through the site: pages, how they arrived, campaigns, country, device, and the buttons they use. It sets first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID so it can recognize a returning browser. We have turned on Google signals, which lets Google associate visits with the Google accounts of people who are signed in and have turned on ad personalization, so we can see aggregate reports on age range, gender, and interests. We have turned off ad personalization for this site's data. Google explains its use of this data in How Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on and manage your Google ad settings in My Ad Center.

Microsoft Clarity records clicks, scrolling, and mouse movement so we can replay visits and see heatmaps of each page. What you type into form fields is masked before it leaves your browser. Clarity sets first-party cookies named _clck and _clsk that recognize a returning browser and connect the pages of one visit, and Microsoft may set its own cookies, such as MUID. Microsoft processes this data under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag. It lets LinkedIn recognize visitors who are LinkedIn members, so we can see aggregate reports on the companies, industries, and job functions of the people who visit. We never see which member visited. LinkedIn sets its own cookies, such as li_sugr, bcookie, lidc, UserMatchHistory, and AnalyticsSyncHistory, and processes this data under the LinkedIn Privacy Policy. Members can change this in their LinkedIn settings, and anyone can opt out through LinkedIn's guest controls.

Our hosting provider also records standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) to keep the site running and secure.

Cookies and browser storage

Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and LinkedIn set the cookies named above and may keep similar data in your browser's storage. The site itself keeps two small values in your browser's local storage, how many times you have visited and the date of your first visit, and keeps details of the current visit in session storage: a random session id, the page you landed on, the referring site, campaign tags, when the visit started, the pages you have opened, the sections you have viewed, and how far you scrolled. Session storage clears when you close the tab. You can block or delete cookies, local storage, and session storage in your browser settings, and the site still works without them.

How we use it

Contact form details, and the visit details that come with them, are used to reply to you and to talk about working together. Analytics shows us how people find the site and which parts of it work. We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not add you to a mailing list without asking.

Who handles it

Form submissions are delivered to us by an email delivery service and stored in our email. Site hosting, page view counts, speed measurement, and our visit log are handled by our hosting provider. To name the network or company a connection belongs to, our server looks up the IP address with ipinfo.io or the public registries of internet addresses. Google Analytics is handled by Google, Clarity by Microsoft, and the LinkedIn Insight Tag by LinkedIn. Google (through Google signals), Microsoft, and LinkedIn may also use what they collect for their own purposes, under the privacy statements linked above. We do not sell your personal information.

How long we keep it

We keep contact messages as long as the conversation is active or as required for our records. Ask us to delete yours at any time.

Your choices

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for a correction, or ask us to delete it. Reach us through the contact form and we will respond.

The Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on stops Google Analytics, and so does blocking cookies for this site. Blocking cookies does not stop our visit log, Microsoft Clarity, or the LinkedIn Insight Tag: they still record a visit whenever this site's scripts run, and our visit log still notes your IP address and browser. Turning off JavaScript for this site in your browser settings stops all of the analytics described above. Our hosting provider's server logs are kept either way.

Client portal

The client portal at portal.blitzagency.us is a separate service for active clients under their own agreements. This policy covers this marketing site only.