Your privacy should be easy to understand.

What we collect

You can read Spatial Insider without creating an account. Our hosting provider receives normal technical records when the site is requested. These may include an IP address, browser and device details, requested pages, referring page, time, and security or error information.

If you email Spatial Insider, we receive the address, message, and anything else you choose to include. Email links on this site open your own email service. The website does not submit a hidden contact form.

Necessary storage

The site uses limited browser storage for features you request and for reliability. It remembers your analytics choice, prevents repeated asset-recovery attempts, can remember an owner-only analytics exclusion, and remembers a motion permission choice after you ask to enable motion. These preferences are not used for advertising.

Your browser controls how long local and session storage remains. You can remove it through your browser settings. Removing the analytics choice makes the site ask again on a later visit.

Optional analytics

Google Analytics stays off unless you select Allow analytics. If allowed, it can measure page views, reading progress, searches, outbound links, video actions, and general browser, device, and approximate-location information. We disable Google advertising signals and ad personalization in our setup.

Google Analytics may set first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_*. You can decline analytics as easily as accepting it and reopen Cookie choices in the footer at any time. Declining later disables analytics and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies for this site. We also honor Global Privacy Control for a visitor who has not already made a choice.

Analytics is used with consent to understand which reporting is useful and whether the site works well. Event-level retention follows the setting in the Spatial Insider Google Analytics property. Aggregated reports may be kept longer because they no longer identify an individual visitor in those reports.

Services that help run the site

• Vercel hosts the website and processes network, security, and diagnostic records needed to deliver it.
• Google Analytics provides optional audience measurement only after consent.
• Mux, YouTube, and Brightcove deliver some videos. Opening a page with an active external player or choosing to play media can share technical information such as your IP address and browser details with that provider.
• X supplies embedded public posts and videos in some articles. The embed loads as you approach it and may give X the article URL, IP address, browser and device details, and cookie information. We request X's privacy mode where supported.
• Email and social platforms receive information when you choose to email us, follow an external link, or share a story.

These providers may process information in the United States and other countries under their own terms and safeguards. Spatial Insider does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Why we use information

Necessary technical records support delivery, reliability, abuse prevention, and security. Optional analytics helps improve reporting and site design. Email information is used to answer the message, evaluate a news tip or partnership request, and keep reasonable business records.

We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for those purposes, legal obligations, dispute resolution, or security. Service providers keep technical records according to their contracts and account settings. Email records are removed when they are no longer needed for the conversation or a legitimate business record.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, restrict, or receive a copy of personal information, object to certain uses, withdraw consent, and appeal or complain to a privacy regulator. You will not receive worse service for making a privacy request.

Email justin@justinryan.io with the subject Spatial Insider privacy request. We may need enough information to verify that a request relates to you. You can withdraw analytics consent immediately through Cookie choices in the footer.

Children

Spatial Insider is a general-audience technology publication and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through an account or submission form.

Security reports

If you believe you found a security problem on spatialinsiders.com, email justin@justinryan.io with the subject Spatial Insider security report. Include the affected page, what you observed, and a safe way to reproduce it. Please do not access, change, or keep another person’s information.

Changes to this notice

This page will be updated when the site’s data practices materially change. The effective date at the top shows the current version.