Monterey Jack — Privacy Policy (The Prime Directive)

Effective date: 2025-12-30

Summary (TL;DR)

Monterey Jack is intentionally designed not to collect, process, or share any personal data about visitors. We do not use analytics, cookies, forms that persist personal data, tracking pixels, third‑party embeds, or advertising. Consider this our Prime Directive for user privacy.

Introduction

Welcome aboard. Monterey Jack (www.montereyjack.net) is operated with the same ethos a Starfleet systems engineer might admire: protect the beings who traverse our systems. This site is built and maintained with the explicit goal of not collecting, processing, or sharing any personal information about visitors. This policy explains what that means, the technical choices that implement it, and the realistic limits imposed by Internet routing and third‑party infrastructure.

Scope

This policy applies to content and functionality served from the site’s primary origin: https://www.montereyjack.net. It does not apply to third‑party sites you visit after following external links or to any services you use intentionally outside this domain.

What we do (explicit statement)

  • We do not collect personal data. Monterey Jack does not request, record, store, or process names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, cookies, device identifiers, or other unique identifiers from visitors for any purpose.
  • We do not run analytics or tracking scripts and do not embed social widgets, comment systems, or advertising networks.
  • We do not set cookies (session or persistent) from the site’s own origin.
  • We do not provide user data to third parties.

What we do NOT do (plain list)

  • No tracking cookies or fingerprinting.
  • No Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible, or similar analytics.
  • No third‑party pixels, beacons, or embedded iframes that collect behavioral data.
  • No form submissions that persist personal information on-site.
  • No user registration, accounts, or behavioral logging.

Technical Realities and Important Limitations (the transport layer caveat)

  • Network packets must be routed between your device and the server. As a result, minimal network metadata (for example, source and destination IP addresses) is necessarily seen by routers, ISPs, and any intermediaries involved in delivery.
  • If the site uses a CDN, reverse proxy, or third‑party hosting, those operators may process or temporarily retain logs or metadata as part of normal operations.
  • Monterey Jack’s design minimises intentional logging and telemetry, and we configure hosting to reduce or avoid logging client identifiers where possible. However, absolute elimination of all metadata processing is outside the sole control of the site operator when third‑party infrastructure is involved.
  • Monterey Jack does not intentionally include third‑party embedded services (e.g., social plugins, analytics, comment systems).
  • Links to external sites are provided for convenience. If you follow such links, the privacy practices of those third parties apply.
  • Where we must rely on third‑party infrastructure (e.g., CDN or hosting provider), we either configure it to avoid logging/analytics or explicitly disclose unavoidable minimal use.

Data Retention and Deletion

  • Because Monterey Jack does not collect or store personal data, there is nothing retained or stored that would be subject to deletion.
  • If you inadvertently send personal data to jack@montereyjack.net (for example, by emailing us), that communication is processed via standard email systems and is not part of the site’s no‑collection design. Such emails will be handled per the operator’s email practices; contact us to request deletion of emailed data.

Security

  • Even though we do not process personal data, we secure the site using industry best practices: HTTPS/TLS for transport, modern cipher suites, and secure HTTP headers where applicable (HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy).
  • We do not intentionally maintain logs containing personal identifiers. Where logs are generated for operational or security reasons, we aim to minimize retention and exclude personally identifying fields where possible.

Children

  • Monterey Jack is not intended for children under 13 years of age. Because we do not collect data, we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to this policy

  • If the site’s design or operations change in a way that would result in the collection, processing, or sharing of personal data, this policy will be updated with a new effective date. Material changes will be clearly disclosed on the site.

Contact

If you believe Monterey Jack has collected personal information about you in error, contact jack@montereyjack.net and we will investigate and remediate.

Technical Appendix — Achieving the Prime Directive (for engineers)

A concise, practical guide for hosting/configuration choices that align with this policy.

High‑level Hosting Choices:

  • Serve a static site (no server‑side forms or dynamic endpoints).
  • Avoid and remove all analytics and third‑party widgets.
  • Avoid client‑side JavaScript that performs telemetry.
  • Host on infrastructure where you can disable logging or ensure logs omit client identifiers.

Audit checklist

  • All pages are static and served without server-side processing.
  • No analytics or external scripts are present.
  • No cookies are set by the site origin.
  • Server access logs are disabled or configured to omit client identifiers where possible.
  • Hosting/CDN logging and analytics features are disabled or minimized.
  • Security headers in place: HSTS, CSP, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy.
  • External links are reviewed and third‑party domains audited.

Monterey Jack aims to not collect or process personal data. However, absolute zero collection is technically constrained by how Internet routing and third‑party infrastructure operate. This policy states what we (the site operator) intentionally do and do not do. For stronger guarantees, host entirely within infrastructure you control and verify network operator logging policies.

Closing Remarks

Monterey Jack (www.montereyjack.net) follows one simple rule: the site is designed not to collect, process, or share personal information about visitors. If you want more technical detail about the hosting/configuration used for the site, or a short privacy notice suitable for a footer, contact jack@montereyjack.net.

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