Privacy policy

This site asks you for nothing. There is no contact form, no field to fill in, no newsletter, no pre-checked box. You can read every page without ever handing me anything.

To reach me, there is the phone. So you give me your number, necessarily, since it shows up when you call or text. That is the only personal information that reaches me, and what happens to it has its own section below.

The site also measures traffic and speed anonymously: which pages are visited, from what kind of device, how long a page takes to load. These measurements run through Google Analytics, which drops a cookie in your browser to tell one visit from another. What I see is totals: never a name, never an address, never you.

CJFG Studio keeps your work-in-progress site in your own browser’s storage. That content never leaves your device and I have no access to it. Clear your browser storage and it is gone. The Studio and the mockups have their own section below.

To answer you. That is the only reason.

I don’t send you a newsletter because you wrote to me once. I don’t sign you up anywhere. I never sell or share your details with anyone, at any price.

If I ever start a newsletter, you will have to subscribe yourself, on purpose, and you will be able to leave in one click.

There is no form on this site any more, so there is nothing to route. When you call or text, your number reaches my mobile, and that is the whole of it.

The site runs on infrastructure that logs requests, like any hosting does. Those technical logs are kept briefly and serve security and troubleshooting.

The site uses Google Analytics to count visits, so Google receives the page you viewed, your device type, and the country the visit came from. There is no Facebook pixel and no ad network here.

When you call, an automated system offers to put you through to me, create your website for free and text it to you, or answer a question. If you choose to speak with me, the call is transferred immediately.

Unlike the contact form, a call involves two providers. Twilio carries the call and transcribes what you say. Anthropic runs the model that holds the conversation. I am telling you because it is true and because you have the right to know before you speak.

No audio recording is kept. The transcript lives for the length of the call, then goes away with it: nothing is written to a database, not on my side, not anywhere else. There is no call archive for you to have erased, because there never was one.

Your phone number serves two purposes and nothing else: texting you the mockup built during the call, and confirming that I will call you back. It enters no list and is used for no solicitation.

If talking to a machine does not appeal to you, you have two ways out from the first second: ask for the transfer, or hang up and text me at the same number. Neither one costs you anything.

CJFG Studio runs in your browser. The site you build, the text you type and the images you upload stay in your device’s local storage. No server of mine receives them, there is no account, and I can neither see them nor recover them for you: clear your browser storage and your draft is gone. The Export button is your backup.

Two things do leave your machine, and you have the right to know. The Studio page counts its visits with Google Analytics, exactly like the rest of the site: the page opened, the device type, the country. Never the content of your site, never your images, never what you type. And the Studio’s fonts are loaded from Google Fonts servers, which therefore see your IP address at download time, as with any image on the web.

The site you export contains no measurement tool of mine: no Google Analytics, no cookie, nothing that reports anything back to me. It also loads its fonts from Google Fonts. Once online, it is your site and your responsibility, including its own privacy policy if you add a form.

The mockups built during a call work without a database. What you said on the phone, your business name, your city, your services, is encoded in the link itself, signed so it cannot be altered, and the link expires after sixty days. Nothing is kept anywhere else. The mockup page counts its visits like the rest of the site, but the address sent to Google is masked so the content of the link never reaches it. If you open the mockup in the Studio, it is copied into your browser storage and the first paragraph’s rule applies.

Google processes these measurements on servers that may sit outside Québec. If you would rather not be counted, block cookies for conceptionjfg.com in your browser settings or install Google’s Analytics opt-out add-on: the site and the Studio work exactly the same without.

There is no inbox to empty: calls leave no archive behind. What remains is my project notes, kept for as long as our working relationship lasts.

If you never became a client and we have nothing left to discuss, it gets cleaned out.

You can also ask me to delete it before that, and I will, without asking why.

In Québec, Law 25 gives you the right to know what a business holds about you, to have it corrected, and to have it erased.

Here, you exercise that by writing to me. No special form, no thirty-day delay stretched to its limit: you ask, I answer, and I confirm when it’s done.

If a data breach ever touched your information, I would tell you directly, rather than let you find out somewhere else.

Me. Jean-François Gauthier, ConceptionJFG. There is no legal department to hand you off to: the same person designs the site, receives your messages, and answers your questions about your data.

If anything here seems vague or incomplete, tell me. A privacy policy nobody understands protects nobody.