Gaither Research Housing & Homelessness Data

Privacy

What we collect, what we don't.

This site is designed to be private by default. No cookies. No third-party advertising trackers. No personalized content. The minimum data collection necessary to keep the site online and detect abuse.

Last updated: 2026-05-01

Short version

  • We do not use cookies.
  • We do not have user accounts, comments, or anything you can sign in to.
  • We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is privacy-respecting and aggregates data without identifying individuals.
  • We do not share data with third parties.
  • Email sent to addresses on this domain is hosted by Microsoft 365.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

We use Cloudflare's free Web Analytics product to count page views and understand which pages people read. It collects: page URL, referrer (the site you came from, if any), user agent (browser/device type), and an anonymized IP-derived country/region. It does not set cookies, does not assign persistent identifiers, and does not track individual users across sessions. Cloudflare's published retention is approximately six months.

Cloudflare's privacy practices for this product are documented at cloudflare.com/web-analytics.

Cloudflare CDN and security

The site is served through Cloudflare's content delivery network. Cloudflare receives basic request metadata (URL, IP address, user agent, timing) for routing, performance, and abuse prevention. This is unavoidable for any modern web property using a CDN. Cloudflare may retain these access logs for security and operational purposes.

What we don't do

  • We do not run Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or any advertising-network trackers.
  • We do not sell data to anyone, ever.
  • We do not embed social media widgets or third-party fonts that phone home (fonts are self-hosted).
  • We do not have user accounts, login systems, or anything requiring you to identify yourself.

Email

Email sent to addresses on gaitherresearch.org is delivered to a mailbox hosted by Microsoft 365. Microsoft's data handling practices are governed by their Privacy Statement. We do not run a separate email-tracking pixel or third-party email-marketing platform.

External links and embeds

Pages on this site link out to source datasets and other research orgs. When you click an external link, that destination has its own privacy policy. Our research dashboards may load JavaScript libraries (Plotly.js, D3.js) from public CDNs (jsdelivr.net, cloudflare.com). These CDNs may log requests but do not receive any personal data from us.

Changes

If we change this page in a way that affects what we collect, the "Last updated" date at the top will change. Material changes will also be noted in the site's GitHub repository commit history at github.com/GaitherStephens/gaither-research.

Questions

Email [email protected].