This page explains what www.treesforgraduates.com records when you read it, what it leaves alone, and where its responsibility ends.
Counting
The site uses a small first-party visit beacon. A beacon is a short message the page sends back to this same site, not to any outside analytics service. It runs only when you arrive from a search engine. If you reach a page any other way, no visit information is collected.
When it runs, the beacon records four items:
- the path of the page you are viewing
- the type of event, such as a page view or a click
- the name of the search engine that referred you
- the text of an outbound button, if you click one
This information is used only to count page views and clicks on outbound buttons. It serves the site's own traffic counting and nothing else. None of these items is a name, an e-mail address, an account identifier or a payment detail, and the site keeps no personal record about any individual visitor.
To avoid counting one page view twice, your browser holds a single session view flag. It exists only for the current browsing session, identifies no one, and is the only thing the site places in your browser. The site sets no cookies, no persistent identifier and no other browser storage.
| Recorded when you arrive from a search engine | Never recorded |
|---|---|
| Page path and event type | Names, e-mail addresses or account identifiers |
| Referring search engine name | Payment details |
| Outbound button text when clicked | Cookies or persistent identifiers |
Hosting
The site is a set of static files served by a content delivery network. As the hosting provider, that network processes the technical data that comes with every request, as any web server must in order to deliver a page.
Each page is self-contained, and the fonts are embedded locally. Every file a page needs comes from this domain. While a page is displayed, no information is passed to an outside host, and no external subresources are loaded.
This page describes only mechanisms confirmed in the site's build. It does not state a retention period for the aggregate counts, name an operator, or describe the hosting provider's own record-keeping, because none of those details has been verified. Please do not send personal information to anyone claiming to act for this site. The site has no channel for receiving it.
Links
Some pages contain outbound links to third-party sites. Following one opens a separate site. Your browser sends the request to that site directly, and that site keeps its own record of the visit. This site does not control a partner site's privacy practices. Its own role ends at counting that the button was clicked. Before sharing anything on a linked destination, read that destination's own policy.
Absences
Several things are missing from this site on purpose:
- No forms. There is nowhere to type or submit information.
- No third-party analytics. Visit data is not shared with advertising networks, data brokers or outside analytics services.
- No external subresources. Pages load nothing from other hosts.
- No contact channels. The site offers no way to send it messages.
- No login, registration or user account.
Because of these absences, the site asks for no consent, no account and no personal detail. You can read every page without giving anything about yourself.