Understanding Data Tracking on This Website
Your interaction with calgorix.com triggers several technical processes that collect information about your visit. This document explains what happens behind the scenes when you browse our personal development resources.
We've organised this explanation around three questions most visitors actually care about: what information gets collected, what we do with it, and how you can influence these processes.
Technical Mechanisms Active on This Website
Session Management Files
When you first arrive, our server places a small text file in your browser's storage. This file exists solely to remember that you're the same person clicking through different pages during your visit. Without it, you'd appear as a completely new visitor each time you navigate to a different article or resource.
These disappear when you close your browser. They contain an identification string but no personal information about who you are or what you're reading.
Persistent Preference Storage
If you adjust settings on our website — perhaps choosing to hide certain notifications or selecting a preferred content format — we save those choices so you don't have to repeat them during future visits.
These remain in your browser for up to twelve months. They contain only the specific preferences you've selected, nothing about your browsing behaviour or personal circumstances.
Performance Monitoring Tools
We track which pages load slowly, which features cause errors, and where people tend to abandon their reading. This technical monitoring helps us identify problems you might not bother reporting.
The system records page load times, error messages, and navigation patterns. It doesn't capture the actual content you're reading or link this technical data to your identity.
Traffic Analysis Systems
Our website uses measurement tools that count visitors, track which content proves most valuable, and show us how people discover our resources. This helps us understand whether our work on obstacle-overcoming strategies actually reaches people who need them.
These systems collect aggregated statistics about visitor numbers, popular pages, and referral sources. Your individual journey through the site contributes to these broader patterns but isn't tracked as a personal profile.
Why These Mechanisms Exist
Functional Necessity
Some tracking is required for the website to work at all. Logging in, submitting enquiry forms, and maintaining your progress through multi-page resources all depend on the site remembering who you are across different interactions.
Experience Enhancement
Remembering your preferences makes subsequent visits more convenient. We save choices about content display, notification settings, and interface preferences so you don't start from scratch each time.
Content Development
Knowing which articles about overcoming personal obstacles get read most thoroughly helps us create more useful resources. We track engagement patterns to understand what actually helps people rather than what we assume might be helpful.
Technical Maintenance
Performance monitoring reveals technical problems before they affect too many visitors. When a particular browser version causes layout problems or a slow server response frustrates users, we need that information to fix it.
Your Options for Controlling This Data Collection
Browser-Level Blocking
Every modern browser includes settings that restrict or eliminate tracking mechanisms. You can block all storage files, allow only those from sites you visit directly, or delete everything when you close the browser.
Blocking everything might prevent certain website features from functioning properly. Most browsers let you create exceptions for specific sites you trust.
Selective Acceptance
You can configure your browser to ask permission before storing any data from websites. This gives you granular control but requires frequent decision-making as you browse.
Most people find this approach tedious after a while, but it works well if you're particularly cautious about which sites you trust with storing information.
Periodic Manual Deletion
Rather than blocking storage mechanisms entirely, you might prefer to delete accumulated data on your own schedule. Browsers offer options to clear everything from the past hour, day, week, or all time.
This approach lets websites function normally while giving you control over how long information persists. You'll need to log in again and reset preferences after clearing, which some people find acceptable as a privacy trade-off.
Third-Party Blocking Extensions
Browser extensions like Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or Ghostery provide more sophisticated control over tracking mechanisms. They distinguish between functional necessities and privacy-invasive tracking, blocking the latter while allowing the former.
These tools require some initial configuration but offer more nuanced protection than browser-level settings alone.
How Long Different Types of Information Persist
External Services That Receive Information About Your Visit
Several companies besides Calgorix receive data about your interaction with our website. These arrangements exist because building every technical function ourselves would be impractical and wouldn't necessarily improve your privacy.
Hosting Infrastructure
Our website files live on servers operated by a hosting provider. Every request your browser makes to load a page passes through their systems, which means they see your IP address, the time of your visit, and which pages you requested. They process this information only to deliver the website content you requested.
Analytics Platform
We use a third-party analytics service to measure website usage patterns. This service receives information about which pages you visit, how long you spend reading them, and what links you click. They aggregate this data across all visitors to show us patterns in how people use the site.
Email Delivery Service
When you submit an enquiry through our contact forms, a specialised email delivery service handles the transmission. They see the content of your message, your email address, and the time you sent it. They're contractually prohibited from using this information for any purpose except delivering your message to us.
Security Monitoring
Protection against malicious automated attacks requires routing your requests through security screening services. These systems analyse patterns in visitor behaviour to distinguish genuine people from harmful bots. They temporarily store your IP address and request patterns but don't have access to your personal information or account details.
Changes to These Practices
We modify our tracking approaches occasionally as technology evolves and privacy expectations shift. When changes significantly affect what information we collect or how we use it, we'll update this document and note the revision date at the top.
We don't notify people individually about policy updates unless legally required. Checking back periodically makes sense if these details matter to you.
Questions About Tracking on This Website
Technical explanations sometimes raise more questions than they answer. If something about our data collection practices concerns you or remains unclear after reading this document, we'd rather you ask than wonder.
Calgorix
Unit 5, Staffordshire House, Warren St
Longton, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 1QD
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 7929 776089
Email: [email protected]