Privacy Policy

This page explains what information Hijibiji (hijibiji.blog) collects when you visit, why, and what you can do about it. Hijibiji is a personal blog and photo notebook written and run by Tariqul Siam. If anything here is unclear, the fastest way to reach me is the Contact page.

1. Information you provide directly

Some parts of the site ask you to type something in, and that information is only collected when you choose to use those features:

• Contact form — your name, email address, and message. This is stored so I can read and reply to you. It is never shown publicly or sold.
• Comments on posts — your name and comment are shown publicly under the post. Your email address is collected too, but it is kept private and never displayed — it's only visible to me, in case I need to follow up with you.

2. Information collected automatically

Like most websites, Hijibiji picks up some technical information automatically as part of how the site works:

• Basic analytics — page views and general usage patterns, through Firebase Analytics (a Google product). This is best-effort only: ad blockers and privacy-focused browsers often block it entirely, and that's fine — nothing on the site requires it to work.
• Theme preference — whether you've chosen light or dark mode is saved in your browser's local storage, purely so the site remembers your choice next time. This never leaves your device.
• View counts — your browser's session storage is used to avoid counting the same visit twice toward a post's view count. This also stays on your device and isn't tied to your identity.

3. Cookies and advertising

Hijibiji may show advertisements served by Google AdSense and its advertising partners. Google and its partners may use cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other sites on the internet. This allows Google and its partners to show you ads that are more relevant to your interests.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also generally opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

4. Third-party services this site relies on

Hijibiji is built on a small number of outside services, each of which has its own privacy policy governing how it handles data:

• Firebase (Google) — stores posts, galleries, comments, contact messages, and handles the admin login and photo uploads. See Google's Privacy Policy.
• Vercel — hosts the website itself.
• EmailJS — may be used to send me an email notification when you submit the Contact form, so I know to check it.
• Google AdSense — may serve advertisements on this site (see section 3).

5. How your information is used

In plain terms: to reply to you, to publish and moderate comments, to keep the site running, and — if you've opted in by not blocking it — to get a general sense of which posts people actually read. Nothing you submit is sold or handed to anyone beyond the services listed above.

6. Children's privacy

Hijibiji is not directed at children, and I don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through this site, please contact me and I'll remove it.

7. Your choices

• You can ask me to delete a comment or a message you've submitted at any time — just use the Contact page.
• You can clear your theme preference and view-count data anytime by clearing your browser's site data for hijibiji.blog.
• You can block analytics and ad cookies using your browser's settings or an ad-blocking extension — the site will keep working normally either way.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, I'll update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after a change means you're okay with the updated version.

9. Contact

Questions about any of this, or want something deleted? Reach out through the Contact page — I read everything that comes through it myself.