Privacy.
Effective
Site operator and controller: Scott Schmidhauser.
Privacy-contact designation: Privacy Officer.
About this site
This is Scott Schmidhauser's personal professional website. It provides background, care principles and professional-inquiry information. It has no contact form, patient intake or appointment booking.
For professional inquiries, use Scott's LinkedIn profile. For practice information or patient inquiries, visit Canobie Dental. Those sites have their own privacy practices. Please do not put health information or other sensitive details in this site's URLs.
Cloudflare delivery and measurement
Cloudflare delivers and protects this site. It processes technical information such as IP addresses, requests and browser information for delivery and security. Security, resource monitoring and network-error reporting may send request and connection details to Cloudflare.
Cloudflare Web Analytics and real user monitoring (RUM) measure visits and page performance, including visited and referring URLs and browser timing data. These services can operate on pages where Google Analytics is disabled, including this page.
Cloudflare states that its RUM beacon does not use cookies or browser storage. Its separate security services may use cookies such as cf_clearance to record security checks. See Cloudflare's privacy policy, RUM information and cookie information.
Limited Google Analytics use
The site's Google Analytics 4 tag is limited to Home, About, Philosophy and Media visits whose addresses have no query string or fragment. It is not enabled on this Privacy page or missing pages.
The tag is configured to measure page views and clicks to LinkedIn and Canobie Dental. It sends the page's canonical address and an empty referring-page field, with Google signals and advertising-personalization signals disabled in the site's configuration.
Google Analytics can use first-party cookies, such as _ga, and identifiers to distinguish visitors and sessions, and process information about browser/device use and interactions. Blocking cookies alone does not necessarily stop analytics requests. Read how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Browser choices
You can manage cookies and site permissions in your browser. Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for supported browsers. These controls do not turn off Cloudflare's network delivery and security processing.