What I collect, and what I don’t.
Effective
This policy covers goduarte.com and jeannie.goduarte.com, operated by Duarte + Duarte LLC dba The Golden Thread, Texas, USA. Questions go to thread@goduarte.com.
The short version. This site doesn’t track you. There are no advertising pixels, no third-party cookies, no session recording, and no profile being built about you anywhere. I can see that a page was viewed; I can’t see that you viewed it.
If you fill in the form or book a call, I get what you typed, and I use it to reply to you. That’s the whole arrangement. Nothing here is sold, rented, or handed to advertisers — not as a policy I could quietly change, but because the site isn’t built to do it.
What I collect
Two things, and only when you choose to send them.
- What you put in the contact form. Your name, email address, an optional phone number, what you wrote about your situation, and — if you filled it in — who sent you.
- Anonymous, aggregate page statistics. Which pages were visited, roughly where in the world visits came from, and what site linked here. This is measured without cookies and without anything that identifies an individual person or follows them between sites.
My web host also keeps standard server logs for a short period, which include IP addresses. That’s ordinary infrastructure record-keeping — it’s how servers work and how abuse gets stopped — and it isn’t used to profile anyone.
What I don’t collect
Advertising or social media pixels — no Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or ad-network trackers of any kind.
Third-party or cross-site cookies. There’s no cookie banner here because there’s nothing to consent to.
Session recording, heatmaps, or replay of what you did on a page.
Selling, renting, or sharing your information for anyone else’s marketing. Ever, and not for money.
Adding you to a mailing list because you contacted me. Writing to me is not subscribing to anything.
Who else touches it
Running a website means a few companies necessarily handle data on my behalf. Here is the complete list and what each one sees.
| Who | What they handle |
|---|---|
| Vercel | Serves the pages and keeps short-lived server logs, which include IP addresses. |
| Cloudflare | DNS and network delivery, and the spam check on the contact form — which processes your IP address and some technical characteristics of your browser. It does not build an advertising profile. |
| Resend | Carries your contact-form message to my inbox. |
| Neon | Stores your contact-form message a second time, so it cannot be lost to a spam filter. |
| Google Workspace | Holds our correspondence, the same as any email you send to any business. |
| Google Appointment Schedules | Only if you book a call. That happens on Google’s own site under Google’s privacy policy, and they collect whatever you give them there. |
| Plausible | Counts page views without cookies and without anything that identifies you or follows you between sites. |
None of these are advertising companies, and none of them receive your information for their own marketing purposes.
Do Not Track
California law requires this site to tell you how it responds to Do Not Track signals from your browser. The honest answer is that there’s nothing here for it to switch off. This site does not track visitors across other websites or over time, whether or not you send the signal, so there is no behavior to change when you do.
The same goes for Global Privacy Control and similar browser opt-out signals: they’re respected, and they ask me to stop doing something I don’t do.
Seeing it, changing it, deleting it
Email thread@goduarte.com and ask. You can ask me what I hold about you, ask me to correct it, or ask me to delete it — and I’ll do it and confirm when it’s done. You don’t need to live in a particular state, cite a statute, or fill in a form to make that request; I’d rather just handle it.
The practical limit worth naming: I can delete your records, but I can’t unsend an email you sent me, and business correspondence I’m required to keep for tax or contractual reasons stays until it isn’t.
When this changes
If this policy changes, the effective date at the top changes with it, and the previous version stays available so you can see what moved. If a change is significant — if I ever start collecting something new or working with a service that sees more than the ones listed above — I’ll say so plainly on this page rather than quietly editing a line. Anyone with an active engagement gets told directly, by email.
Children
This is a business-to-business site and isn’t directed at children. I don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.