Cookie and Tracking Policy

yesid.dev is the portfolio and contact site of Yesid Fernando Otalora, a freelance digital-infrastructure consultant in Quebec, Canada. This page explains what the site stores in your browser, what it does not, and how your analytics choice works. Last updated: 2026-07-15.

The short version#

  • This site sets no tracking cookies. None.
  • There is no advertising technology, advertising profile, or automated decision-making.
  • Plausible can be fully disabled. When it is enabled, explicit consent is the documented default; the no-banner mode is operator-controlled and requires legal-advisor review.

What the site actually stores#

The site keeps a few functional preferences in your browser's localStorage: your theme (light or dark), your language, the state of collapsed sections, and an unsent draft of the contact form so you do not lose it if you navigate away. Plausible itself sets no cookies, uses no browser storage, and creates no persistent cross-site identifier. yesid.dev stores your analytics choice in your browser's localStorage. Those stored values stay on your device. An analytics choice remains dormant whenever Plausible is disabled. Clearing your browser data removes the stored values.

Analytics#

I use Plausible Analytics Cloud, operated by Plausible Insights OÜ in Estonia, to measure page paths, referral and campaign sources, browser, operating-system and device categories, approximate country, region and city, and four conversion events: a successful contact-form submission, a click to book a call, a click on a direct contact channel, and a click to inspect a project's live site or public source repository. I do not attach contact-form fields, destination URLs, link labels, or custom properties to those events. Each analytics request contains an IP address and User-Agent; Plausible combines them with a value that changes daily to count visitors for that day, then discards the raw values. Visitor data is processed and stored in the European Union. I see site-usage reports, not named people. When Plausible is disabled, the site makes no analytics requests and sends no pageviews or conversion events. The Analytics preferences control is absent from the footer, and any analytics choice already stored in your browser remains there but is dormant. With the default consent banner, no Plausible request runs until you choose Allow analytics. If I enable analytics without the banner, cookieless Plausible starts for visitors without a saved decline; a saved decline remains untracked.

Your analytics choice#

Section 8.1 of Quebec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector addresses technologies with functions that can identify, locate or profile a person. Plausible derives a visitor count that changes daily and an approximate country, region and city. The Analytics preferences control is available in the footer whenever analytics is enabled. Opening it pauses future measurement and shows the choice. Allow analytics resumes measurement; No thanks records a decline. Withdrawing consent stops future analytics requests and events. Aggregate data already sent cannot be tied back to you or selectively removed.

Explicit consent is the documented default. I use the no-banner mode only after deciding to do so and obtaining legal-advisor review.

If this changes#

If I add another technology that identifies, locates or profiles visitors, I will explain it here and keep it off until the required choice is available. No silent changes.

Contact#

Questions about this policy are welcome at contact@yesid.dev or through the contact page, in English, French, or Spanish. Yesid Fernando Otalora acts as Privacy Officer for this site under section 3.1 of Law 25.