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Privacy Notice

Last updated: October 9, 2026 (v4)

Previous version: October 8, 2026 (v3; changes highlighted)

1. Scope and site operator

This Privacy Notice explains how information is processed when you visit matkowsky.com, use its public AI interface, or communicate through the contact methods identified on this site. The site is operated by Jonathan Matkowsky, who determines the purposes and means of the site's first-party processing. In this Notice, “site operator” refers to Jonathan Matkowsky.

2. Information you provide

Questions submitted through the public AI interface are transmitted to an AI service provider to generate a response. The public AI interface is not a confidential communication channel, and this site does not persist free-form AI questions or AI responses as Performance analytics. Do not submit personal data, confidential or privileged communications, credentials, financial or health information, proprietary information, strategy, evidence, or case documents through the public AI interface.

If you contact the site operator outside the public AI interface or schedule a meeting through Microsoft Bookings, the information you provide is processed to respond, arrange the meeting, and, where applicable, for conflicts and intake. For a potential matter, limit the initial communication to information reasonably necessary for those purposes.

3. Information collected automatically

This site and its service providers process limited technical information associated with requests, such as IP address, browser or device information, timestamps, request metadata, and security events, as reasonably necessary to operate and protect the service, troubleshoot problems, enforce usage limits, and prevent abuse.

Paid advertising links may include first-party campaign identifiers. The site uses these identifiers with limited technical request information to detect, investigate, and help prevent invalid or fraudulent clicks.

4. Cookies and similar technologies

For simplicity, this Notice uses “technologies” to include cookies, local browser storage, and similar mechanisms.

Strictly Necessary Technologies. These support operation and security of the site and AI interface, including session state, privacy preferences, usage controls, and abuse prevention. They cannot be disabled through the site's Tracking Choices control.

Performance Technologies. When enabled, these help the site operator understand visits and interactions with the site and AI interface and improve the service. They may record a randomly generated browser identifier, controlled page labels, visit and session events, controlled suggested-question impressions and selections, bounded recommendation-state metadata (such as focus/diversify/clarify mode, confidence band, ranking path, and degradation state), interaction counts, engagement duration, and defined contact or conversion events.

The Performance dataset does not record free-form AI questions or AI responses, IP addresses, email addresses, machine identifiers, or browser fingerprints. The site operator does not combine the Performance identifier with security or contact information for the purpose of identifying individual visitors and does not use these technologies for advertising or marketing tracking.

Performance Technologies are off unless the visitor chooses to enable them. The Tracking Choices control displays and applies the setting for that browser. Turning off Performance Technologies stops future first-party Performance collection and removes the site's Performance identifier from that browser. It may limit features that depend on recognizing visits or interactions over time.

5. How information is used

Information is used as reasonably necessary to operate and secure the site and AI interface, generate AI responses, respond to communications, enforce usage controls, troubleshoot technical problems, understand site and AI-interface usage, evaluate and improve performance, prevent abuse, and comply with applicable legal obligations. This site does not sell personal data or use first-party Performance data to build advertising profiles.

6. How information is shared

The site operator shares information with service providers as the site operator believes necessary or desirable to host, operate, secure, maintain, analyze, and improve the site and its communications. Providers process information subject to the terms, privacy practices, data-processing terms where applicable, and legal obligations that govern the service actually used.

• OpenAI and/or Anthropic. The site operator may use OpenAI and/or Anthropic to provide AI functionality, including generating responses through the public AI interface, and may use either or both providers to analyze a limited subset of Performance data for site analytics, quality evaluation, and performance management. Performance data supplied for this purpose is limited to the information described above and is designed to exclude free-form AI questions and AI responses. Which terms govern depends on the specific service and account used. Consumer terms and privacy policies may apply to consumer services; commercial terms and a data processing addendum apply only where those terms govern the selected service. OpenAI Terms of Use · OpenAI Services Agreement · OpenAI Privacy Policy · OpenAI Data Processing Addendum · Anthropic Consumer Terms · Anthropic Commercial Terms · Anthropic Privacy Policy · Anthropic Data Processing Addendum
• GitHub. GitHub provides source-control and related site-operations services and may process repository, workflow, and related operational information, including aggregate or de-identified performance outputs. The site is designed not to store free-form public AI questions, AI responses, or direct visitor identifiers in GitHub. GitHub processes information under its applicable privacy and data-protection terms. GitHub General Privacy Statement · GitHub Terms of Service · GitHub Data Protection Agreement
• GoDaddy. GoDaddy provides hosting and related infrastructure and security services and may process technical, operational, network, security, and service data as necessary to provide and protect those services. GoDaddy Global Privacy Notice
• Microsoft. Microsoft provides email, calendar, appointment scheduling, and online meeting services through Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Bookings, and, where used, Teams. Microsoft may process related contact, appointment, and communications information under its applicable terms and privacy practices. Microsoft Privacy Statement

7. Retention

This site does not maintain a permanent first-party archive of public AI conversations. First-party Performance event data is retained at event level for up to 90 days and may thereafter be deleted or retained only in aggregated or de-identified form. Copies of Performance data provided to a service provider for periodic analysis may be retained under that provider's applicable terms and data controls rather than the site's 90-day first-party event-retention period. Privacy preferences and a Performance identifier, when enabled, may remain in the browser until changed or cleared. Service providers may retain information under their own applicable terms, policies, security practices, and legal obligations.

Paid-advertising integrity records are retained for up to 90 days.

8. International processing

This site is operated in the United States. Information may also be processed or stored in other locations where the service providers identified above operate, subject to applicable law and the safeguards and legal obligations applicable to those providers.

9. Security

The site operator maintains technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information processed through this site against unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Those safeguards are intended to reflect the nature of the information and the risks associated with its processing, but no internet service or security measure can guarantee absolute security.

10. Your choices and privacy requests

You may review or change the site's Performance setting through Tracking Choices in the footer. If you have a privacy question or want to make a request concerning personal data that you believe the site operator controls, contact the site operator using the information below. Rights and choices may vary depending on applicable law and the circumstances of the processing.

11. Third-party links

This site may link to third-party websites and resources. Their privacy practices apply when you follow those links; the site operator does not control their data-handling practices.

12. Changes to this Notice

The current version and last-updated date will be posted here.

13. Contact

Privacy questions and requests may be sent using Email the site operator, with a copy by mail to:

Jonathan Matkowsky
301 W 115th St
New York, New York 10026

If urgent, use Call the site operator.