Privacy Policy

StorAIQ is Txais Xiong's personal research and data-analysis practice, published at storaiq.com. This is not a company, not a subscription product, and there are no user accounts. This policy explains exactly what little data this site collects, in plain terms, and how it relates to California privacy law.

1. What this site collects

This site has no login, no forms, and no way for you to submit information to it directly. The only data collected is anonymous, aggregate traffic analytics via Vercel Web Analytics. Per Vercel's own documentation, this tool:

• Does not use cookies or any persistent identifier.
• Cannot identify or re-identify you individually.
• Identifies a visit only via a hash generated from the incoming request, discarded automatically after 24 hours.
• Records only aggregate, non-personal data points: page URL, referrer, approximate geolocation (country/region/city level), device type, and browser/OS.

This site does not use cookies, does not run advertising or tracking pixels, does not use Google Analytics or any third-party tracking SDK, and does not collect names, email addresses, payment information, or any other personally identifiable information through the site itself.

2. If you email me

Every contact link on this site is a standard mailto: link that opens your own email client. Sending an email is a direct exchange between you and me, handled by our respective email providers. This website does not receive, store, or process that message in any way.

3. Third-party services

This site is hosted on Vercel, which also provides the analytics described above. Vercel's privacy policy: vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy. No other third-party service receives data from this site.

4. California privacy law

The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA, applies to businesses that meet specific thresholds: broadly, over $26.625 million in annual revenue, or buying/selling/sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households per year. This site is a personal, non-commercial research practice that meets none of those thresholds, so CCPA/CPRA does not legally apply to it. Stated plainly rather than left ambiguous, in the interest of accuracy.

Separately, the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) requires a clear, conspicuous privacy policy on commercial sites that collect personally identifiable information from California residents. This site collects no personally identifiable information at all (see Section 1), but this policy is published anyway, in that spirit, so there is never any ambiguity about what happens to your data here.

If you are a California resident and have any question about data practices on this site beyond what's described above, email me directly and I will answer plainly.

5. Changes to this policy

If what this site collects ever changes, this page will be updated to match, and the "Last updated" date at the top will reflect it.

6. Contact