Analytics privacy on CIVS.uk

CIVS.uk is operated by Sean McKinsley, who is also its Privacy Officer. For privacy questions or requests about your information, contact info@civs.ca.

Your choice

Google Analytics is optional. We load it only after you accept analytics. Rejecting does not affect your access to the site. You can change your choice using Analytics settings on any page.

We store your choice on this device, where it is valid for 90 days. Visits do not extend that period. An expired preference may remain in your browser's storage until you visit again or clear it. If your browser cannot save the choice, analytics stays off.

What is collected

If you accept, Google Analytics receives the addresses and fixed titles of selected public pages, visit and engagement timing, cookie/session identifiers and browser/device information. Google may derive an approximate location from your connection. Your browser sends an IP address when it connects to Google.

We exclude contact, enquiry, proposal and questionnaire pages. We do not send form contents, contact details, search terms, URL query strings, fragments or referring-page addresses to Analytics. We do not enable advertising personalisation, Google Signals or automatic form, click, search, download or video measurement.

Cookies and retention

Analytics cookies are configured to expire by the end of your 90-day choice period, without extending on each visit. Your browser may remove them sooner.

The Google Analytics user- and event-level retention setting is two months, with reset on new activity off. This setting does not limit the lifetime of standard aggregated reports or all information Google processes.

Changing your mind

Turning analytics off stops future collection from this browser and removes this site's analytics cookies. It does not undo information already sent. Your choice applies to this browser; changing devices or clearing browser storage can mean you are asked again.

Google and international processing