Privacy Policy

Vitaly Chopik, located in Belarus, is responsible for the processing described in this policy. For privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected]. Minds Vary is a bilingual English-and-Spanish educational publication, not a clinic, therapy service, or health-record system.

Minds Vary does not ask visitors to create accounts, submit forms, leave comments, join a newsletter, or provide health information. The website and its infrastructure may process technical request information such as IP address, browser and device details, requested URLs, timestamps, referring pages, security records, and diagnostic information.

For each external arrival, a lightweight operational alert sends the project name, requested path, UTM campaign fields, a referrer without its query or fragment, browser languages, browser time zone, platform, screen size, and viewport size to a server endpoint controlled by the publisher. That endpoint derives the IP address, user agent, and, when hosting headers provide it, approximate city, region, country, continent, and time zone. A random arrival ID and session storage are used to prevent duplicate alerts; the alert does not ask for a name, email address, or health information.

Google Analytics 4 may process online identifiers, browser and device information, approximate location derived from IP address, pages viewed, interaction data, and referral information. The site does not use Google Analytics or operational alerts to ask for, infer, or create health profiles. Please do not send health information, medical records, identity documents, or other sensitive information to the publisher unless a secure process has been explicitly introduced for that purpose.

Minds Vary uses Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-Z5CD7LP73B, to understand aggregate traffic and improve site content and navigation. Analytics starts when the page loads unless your browser already has a stored opt-out. Google Analytics may use first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_ to recognise a browser or session. Their duration depends on Google configuration and browser controls.

The site stores your analytics choice in browser local storage for up to one year. Selecting “Decline” sets a Google Analytics opt-out flag, removes accessible Google Analytics cookies, and stops future Google Analytics requests from this browser. It does not reverse information sent before you made the choice. You can reopen Cookie settings in the footer at any time.

Technical information is used to deliver, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot the website. Operational alerts let the publisher see that a visitor arrived, identify the Minds Vary project, understand the available referral or campaign source, and investigate basic delivery issues. Analytics is used to understand aggregate audience activity and improve editorial content, navigation, and site performance.

Minds Vary does not use Google Signals, advertising personalization, remarketing, or Google Analytics advertising features. The site does not sell personal information or knowingly share it for behavioral advertising. Where applicable law requires a legal basis, technical and operational processing is carried out for the legitimate interest of operating and understanding a secure website, and analytics is processed as permitted by applicable law.

Information may be processed by service providers that support the site, including Google for analytics and hosting, infrastructure, and security providers that deliver and protect the website. Operational arrival details are sent through a server endpoint controlled by the publisher to a private Telegram bot chat so the publisher can receive the alert. Telegram may process that message under its own terms, safeguards, and privacy practices. Bot credentials are kept on the server and are not sent to visitors.

Service providers may process information in countries other than your own. Information may also be disclosed when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, security, or operation of Minds Vary. The site may link to external resources; their privacy and security practices are controlled by their own operators, not Minds Vary.

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. The session-scoped arrival fingerprint remains until the browser session ends or storage is cleared. Operational alerts may remain in the publisher’s private Telegram chat until they are deleted. Your analytics choice is designed to remain for up to one year unless you change it or clear browser storage. Analytics retention is governed by the Google Analytics property settings, while technical logs are retained according to infrastructure practices and operational needs.

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Aggregated or deidentified information may be retained for longer when it cannot reasonably be linked back to an individual.

You can stop future Google Analytics requests by selecting “Decline” in Cookie settings in the footer. That control does not disable the essential, cookie-free operational arrival alert. Browser controls may block cross-site requests or clear cookies and local or session storage, although doing so can prevent the site from remembering choices or duplicate alerts.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to ask about access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or to complain to a data-protection authority. To make a privacy request, email [email protected] with enough detail to identify the concern. We may request limited information to verify identity before acting on a request.

Minds Vary is a general-audience editorial site and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the site.

This policy will be updated before the site introduces forms, newsletters, accounts, advertising, new analytics tools, or another material data practice. The current version was last updated on September 23, 2026.