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How this site is built, what it stores, and what it doesn't.
The site
This is a static site — plain HTML, CSS, and a few lines of inline JavaScript (the "Download as PDF" button on the CV). It's built with Astro and MDX, versioned in git, and hosted on Vercel. Every push rebuilds and redeploys the whole thing. No database, no server-side rendering, no runtime logic.
Privacy
No cookies. No analytics. No tracking pixels. No embedded widgets. No forms that submit anywhere. Visiting a page means your browser asks Vercel's edge network for some HTML, CSS, and fonts — and that's the whole exchange.
Vercel, like any web host, keeps short-lived access logs (IP, user agent, request path) for the purpose of operating the service. I don't have a separate system reading those logs, and nothing on this site is designed to identify or profile visitors.
Fonts
EB Garamond and Inter are self-hosted — bundled with the site and served from the same origin as every other asset. Nothing is loaded from Google Fonts or any other third-party CDN. This is deliberate: rendering a page on this site doesn't expose your IP to anyone beyond the host that's already serving you the HTML.
Corrections & contact
If anything here is wrong, unclear, or concerning, email me at alfredbirkelund@gmail.com. That's also the right address for takedown requests, corrections to essays, or anything else about how this site handles information.