Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 21, 2026

Thank you for visiting my professional portfolio website. Your privacy is incredibly important to me. This Privacy Policy explains how this website collects, uses, and safeguards your information when you browse my work, download my resume, or reach out to connect.

I collect information in two ways: information you voluntarily provide to me, and information collected automatically through tracking technologies.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

• Form Field Data: If you use a contact form or inquiry field on this site, I collect the personal data you explicitly choose to enter. This typically includes your name, email address, phone number, company name, and any message text you provide so that I can respond to your request.

Information Collected Automatically

To better understand how visitors interact with my portfolio and to improve the user experience, this site utilizes automated tracking tools:

• Google Analytics 4 (GA4): Collects anonymized data regarding your session behavior, including pages visited, time spent on the site, geographic location (city/country level), device type, and referral traffic sources. GA4 does not track your name or direct personal identity.

• Google Tag Manager (GTM): Acts as a management container to deploy tracking tags and pixels cleanly. GTM itself does not store user data, but it orchestrates the measurement pixels used to analyze site performance.

• Tracking Pixels & Cookies: This site uses cookies (small text files saved to your browser) to measure engagement with my work, resume downloads, and overall traffic patterns.

I use the data collected on this website strictly for professional networking, recruiting, and optimization purposes, including:

• Responding to your explicit inquiries, recruitment requests, or professional outreach.

• Analyzing website traffic and user behavior to optimize the UI/UX architecture and conversion pipelines of this landing page.

• Ensuring the security and proper technical functionality of the website.

I do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. Your data is only shared with trusted third-party service providers necessary to run this site:

• Google Analytics: To process aggregated web traffic data. Google has its own privacy practices regarding how they handle data, which you can review in the Google Privacy & Terms.
• Hosting & Form Providers: The infrastructure platforms hosting this website process your form submissions securely to ensure they arrive in my inbox.

Depending on your location, you may have specific privacy rights regarding your data (such as CCPA in California or GDPR if accessing from the EU). Regardless of location, I respect your right to control your data:

• Opt-Out of Tracking: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by GA4.
• Data Access or Deletion: If you have submitted your information through a form on this site and would like it updated or completely deleted from my records, please contact me directly using the information below.

I implement standard, commercially reasonable security practices (such as SSL encryption across the entire site) to protect the confidentiality of your data. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technical tracking or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date."

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please feel free to reach out directly:

• Email: barnes.jointmail@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mbarnes007

Phone: (520) 271-9652

Email: barnes.jointmail@gmail.com

© 2026 Michele Barnes. All Rights Reserved.

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