Privacy Policy

What this site collects, why it collects it and how to switch it off. Kept short and in plain English.

The short version

mcadev.co.uk is a personal portfolio site. It does not require accounts, does not sell data, and does not run advertising. The only third-party service in use is Google Analytics, and it only runs if you accept cookies via the banner shown on your first visit.

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Accounts required

Nothing here asks you to register, sign in or hand over an email address.

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Third-party service

Google Analytics, and only once you have accepted. Nothing else is loaded in.

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Adverts or data sales

No advertising, no tracking pixels, nothing passed on or sold to anyone.

13mo

Longest cookie life

The analytics cookie expires after thirteen months, sooner if you clear site data.

Cookies

What is actually stored

Nothing is set until you accept. Reject the banner, or ignore it entirely, and no analytics cookie is written.

Cookie register
Name_ga, _ga_*
ProviderGoogle Analytics
PurposeAnonymised traffic and usage statistics
DurationUp to 13 months
Set whenOnly after you press accept
Consent recordmcadev-cookie-consent (localStorage, this device only)

If you accept

  • The two Google Analytics cookies above are written
  • Page views, rough location and device type are recorded
  • Your choice is saved on this device so the banner stops asking

If you decline or ignore it

  • No analytics cookie is written at any point
  • No data is sent to Google
  • The site behaves identically, nothing is held back
  • The banner asks again on your next visit
Analytics

Why Google Analytics is here at all

It tells me which pages people actually read and roughly where they are, which is how I decide what to build or write next. The data is aggregated. It is not used to identify anyone, it is not combined with anything else and it goes nowhere beyond Google.

You can withdraw consent whenever you like by clearing your browser's site data for mcadev.co.uk. That resets the banner and stops analytics from your next visit onward.

Tools

The tools subdomain

tools.mcadev.co.uk runs under this same policy, with one thing worth stating plainly.

What happens to what you type into a tool

  • Every live tool runs in your browser, so the text, files and hashes you enter stay on your machine
  • Nothing is uploaded, logged or saved on my side
  • Any future tool that does need a server will say so on its own card before you open it
  • The same cookie banner and the same analytics rules apply across both sites
Your rights

Control and contact

No account data is collected here, so there is nothing to export or delete beyond the analytics cookie described above. If you email me, I keep that email in my inbox like any other message and I do not add you to anything.

Questions about this policy, or about how anything here is handled, go to marcusukdev@gmail.com.

Last updated

This policy was last reviewed in 2026. Contact me directly if anything here is unclear.