Last updated June 18, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how James Steele Seeley's Portfolio ("we," "us," or "our") handles information when you visit https://jamesseeley.com/, use portfolio pages, launch browser-based demos, follow contact links, or interact with related pages that link to this policy.
This site is a personal portfolio and project archive. It is not intended to be a legal, financial, health, or professional advice service, and it is not directed to children.
Table of Contents
5. Cookies, Local Storage, and Embeds
10. United States State Privacy Rights
11. International Privacy Rights and Transfers
12. Browser Signals and Global Privacy Control
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide. If you email us or otherwise contact us, we collect the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, message content, and any files or project details you send. The site currently uses email contact links rather than an account system, payment system, or hosted contact form.
Basic technical information. Like most websites, hosting providers, security systems, browser-based demos, and embedded-content providers may automatically process technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages requested, referring page, date and time of request, and diagnostic logs. We use this information to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the site.
Local preferences. Some interactive pages may store preferences in cookies, local storage, or session storage, such as consent choices, tool preferences, HTML5 demo launch values, local diagnostic history, or demo cache data.
Information we do not intentionally collect. We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, payment card information, account passwords, government identifiers, or precise geolocation through this site, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics.
2. How We Use Information
We use information for the following purposes:
- To operate, maintain, secure, and debug the site.
- To respond to messages, inquiries, project requests, and privacy requests.
- To preserve site preferences and consent choices where those features are enabled.
- To understand site performance and improve content, navigation, accessibility, and compatibility.
- To comply with applicable laws, enforce site terms, and protect rights, safety, and security.
We do not use personal information from this site to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
3. Legal Bases Where Required
Where laws such as the EU GDPR or UK GDPR require a legal basis, we rely on one or more of the following, depending on the context: your consent, performance of a contract or steps before a contract, legitimate interests in operating, securing, and improving a portfolio website, compliance with legal obligations, and protection of vital interests where necessary. For cookies or similar storage that legally requires consent, consent is the intended basis unless an exception applies.
You may withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, but withdrawal does not affect processing that happened before withdrawal or processing based on another lawful ground.
We do not sell personal information. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We may share information only in the following limited situations:
- Service providers. Hosting, email, security, analytics, or maintenance providers may process information as needed to provide their services.
- Embedded third-party content. Pages include or link to content from providers such as YouTube and ModDB. Those providers may receive information from your browser when their content loads or when you interact with it, including device, request, and referrer information.
- Legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information if required by law or if necessary to protect the site, users, or others.
- Business changes. If this site or related assets are transferred, relevant information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Third-party services have their own privacy practices. Relevant policies include Google Privacy Policy and ModDB Privacy Policy.
The site may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar browser technologies for essential functions, preferences, embedded media, interactive demos, and compatibility. Gated third-party embeds load only after every required optional consent category is enabled. Where practical, embedded videos may use privacy-enhanced or lazy-loading options, but those options do not make the third-party service first-party or fully under our control.
The site's consent interface records first-party preference choices for this browser. Gated embeds load only after every required optional consent category is enabled. For content or features that are not technically gated by those choices, browser cookie, storage, and tracking controls remain the reliable way to block third-party cookies or site data before they are set.
For more detail, see our Cookie Policy.
6. Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or allowed by law. Contact messages may be retained as needed to respond, keep records of a request, resolve disputes, or protect legal rights. Server logs are generally retained for limited operational and security periods determined by hosting and security needs.
7. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures appropriate for a small portfolio site. No website, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure, so please avoid sending secrets, passwords, private keys, or highly sensitive information through this site or by email.
8. Children's Privacy
This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact us and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of personal information; to object to or restrict certain processing; to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; to opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or certain profiling; and to appeal a decision about a privacy request.
To exercise a privacy right, email jamessteeleseeley@gmail.com . We will respond within the timeframe required by the law that applies to your request, and if no specific law applies, we will try to respond within a reasonable time. We may need to verify your identity or authority before completing a request. Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, but we may require proof of authorization.
10. United States State Privacy Rights
US state privacy laws continue to change, and many of those laws apply only to businesses that meet specific revenue, volume, nonprofit, or data-processing thresholds. Where a state privacy law applies to us, residents of states with consumer privacy laws may have specific rights over personal information.
Categories of personal information. In the last 12 months, we may have collected identifiers, internet or other electronic network activity, approximate location inferred from IP address by service providers, and any information you voluntarily sent to us. We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information through this site or use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics.
Sources. We collect information from you, your browser or device, hosting/security systems, and third-party embeds when you interact with them.
Purposes. We use information for the purposes listed in How We Use Information.
Disclosures. We may disclose information to service providers and third-party embed providers as described in How Information Is Shared.
Sale, sharing, and targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or operate our own targeted advertising program. Third-party embeds may use information according to their own policies. If a third-party embed or service is later configured in a way that constitutes sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling that requires an opt-out under applicable law, we will provide an appropriate opt-out mechanism.
Non-discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.
Appeals. If applicable law gives you an appeal right and we deny your request, you may appeal by emailing jamessteeleseeley@gmail.com .
California Shine the Light. California residents may request information about categories of personal information, if any, disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the previous calendar year.
11. International Privacy Rights and Transfers
If you are in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, or another region with privacy laws, you may have additional rights under local law. These may include access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, restriction, withdrawal of consent, and complaint rights with your local supervisory authority.
This site is operated from the United States. If you access the site from another country, information may be processed in the United States or other locations where service providers operate. Those locations may have privacy laws different from those in your location.
If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland and believe your personal information is being processed unlawfully, you may contact your local data protection authority, the UK Information Commissioner's Office, or the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, as applicable.
12. Browser Signals and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers and extensions can send opt-out preference signals, including Global Privacy Control. Because this site does not sell personal information or knowingly share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, these signals generally do not change the site's current data practices. If this site is treated as a covered business or controller under a law that requires a response to legally recognized browser opt-out signals, or if future site features involve sale, sharing, targeted advertising, profiling, or other processing that requires an opt-out response under applicable law, we will treat those signals as required for the browser or device that sends the signal.
Older Do-Not-Track signals do not have a consistent legal or technical standard, and we do not currently respond to them separately from legally recognized opt-out preference signals.
13. Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy as laws, site features, service providers, or data practices change. The date at the top shows when it was last updated.
14. Contact
For questions, privacy requests, appeals, or concerns, email jamessteeleseeley@gmail.com .
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