Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 10, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit www.christopherjchen.com (the "Site").

Information We Collect via Google Analytics

When you visit the Site, we use Google Analytics to automatically collect certain information about your device and interaction with our Site. This information may include:

• Information about your web browser (e.g., type and version)
• IP address (Google Analytics may be configured to anonymize this)
• Time zone
• Information about the individual web pages or content you view
• Websites or search terms that referred you to the Site
• Information about how you interact with the Site (e.g., pages visited, time spent on pages, scroll depth, outbound clicks)

We refer to this automatically-collected information as "Device Information" or "Usage Data."

How We Use Your Information

We use the Usage Data collected through Google Analytics to:

• Understand how visitors find and use our Site.
• Analyze the performance of our Site and the popularity of different content.
• Improve and optimize our Site content and structure.

We do not use this information to personally identify you.

Cookies

Our Site uses "cookies" via Google Analytics. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. They help Google Analytics track your interactions with the Site.

For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you disable cookies, some functionalities of websites may not work properly.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our visitors use the Site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Site will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Site, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. The Usage Data collected is processed by Google as described in their privacy policy.

Data Retention

Data collected by Google Analytics is subject to Google's data retention policies. We do not directly store your personal data from website visits.

Your Rights

Depending on your location (e.g., if you are a European resident), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us.

Please note that data collected via Google Analytics is largely aggregated and may be anonymized, making individual data requests complex. The primary way to control data collection via Google Analytics is through cookie settings or the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this privacy policy periodically.

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact me by e-mail at cch3 [at] iu [dot] edu (replace [at] with @ and [dot] with .).