Privacy and cookies
What we measure, and what we do not.
Nothing is stored on your device until you accept. Analytics load with every storage permission denied, and only begin storing if you choose Accept. Decline and no cookie is written at all. You can change your mind at any time using the button at the bottom of this page.
What we use analytics for
This site is a sixty second film followed by a short page. We want to know whether people watch it, which parts hold attention, and where they stop. That tells us what to fix. It is a product question, not a marketing one.
Specifically, we record which of the six chapters were reached, roughly how long each was held, how far down the page a visit got, and which contact link was chosen. We do not record what you type, and we do not attempt to identify you.
What we never do
- No advertising cookies. Advertising storage and personalization stay denied even after you accept.
- No profiling, no audience building and no cross-site tracking.
- We do not sell or share personal information, as those terms are used under California law.
- Two measurement providers, both named below, and nothing else: Google Analytics, and Vercel's own first-party analytics.
The cookies themselves
These are set by Google Analytics 4 only after you accept.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
_ga | Distinguishes one browser from another so repeat visits are not counted twice. | 2 years |
_ga_<id> | Keeps session state for the property. | 2 years |
We also store your consent choice itself in your browser's local storage under lev.consent.v1, so we do not ask again on every page. That is stored locally, never sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes it. If you decline, this is the only thing kept, and it exists purely to remember that you said no.
Who processes it
Google Analytics is present on the page from the moment it loads, but in a deliberately restricted state: every storage permission is switched off, so it cannot write a cookie or read one, and it registers a page visit, and a couple of automatic signals Google collects by default such as whether the page was scrolled, as anonymous counts with no identifier attached to them. That is what lets us know roughly how many people came without knowing anything about any of them. If you decline, it never leaves that state, and nothing about which chapters you watched is ever sent.
The detail described further up — which chapters were reached, how long each was held, how deep the visit went — is only ever sent after you accept, and it is processed by Google. IP addresses are anonymized before processing.
The site is hosted by Vercel, which keeps standard request logs including IP address, user agent and requested path for delivery, security and abuse prevention. That is infrastructure logging rather than analytics, and it happens whether or not you accept.
We also run Vercel's own measurement, which is separate from the Google tag and works differently. It sets no cookie and writes nothing to your device at all. Instead of an identifier stored in your browser, a visit is recognised by a hash Vercel computes from the incoming request on their side, and that is discarded after 24 hours. What it records is the page, the referring site, approximate location from the network address, browser, operating system and device type, plus page-loading speed. It cannot follow you to another website, and because it stores nothing on your device it runs regardless of the choice you make in the banner. If you would rather it did not run at all, a content blocker will stop it.
When you contact us
There are two routes. The contact links open your own email client with a subject and template filled in, and nothing passes through this site. The contact form does submit through this site: your name, email, organisation if you give one, and your message are sent to our own endpoint and relayed to us by email. We store no copy of it in a database. It reaches our inbox and stays there.
We use what you send only to reply and to continue the conversation. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not pass it to anyone else. The form also records a single anonymous event noting that a message was sent and which of the three subjects you chose, so we can see which routes people use. That event contains none of your details, and it is only recorded if you accepted analytics.
The live shore view
The Moss Landing shore view is a protected, read-only preview and is not available every hour. Detection boxes drawn on it are model-generated candidates rather than confirmed whales. No remote camera control is offered through this site, and the camera is not used to identify people.
Your choices and rights
You can accept or decline at any time, and change that later. Declining does not reduce anything about the site: the film, the content and the contact routes are identical either way.
Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete personal data we hold about you, and to object to processing. Because analytics here is not tied to an identity, in practice that usually concerns email correspondence. Write to us and we will act on it.
Contact
Questions, requests, or anything unclear: nathankrajewski@project-leviathan.com