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It is Mike Wood Lighting’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.mikewoodld.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://www.mikewoodld.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Mike Wood Lighting collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mike Wood Lighting’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mike Wood Lighting’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Mike Wood Lighting may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
This website has no user accounts, logins, or comment system, so it does not collect or store visitor profiles. Like any website, the hosting infrastructure (Cloudflare) briefly processes visitor IP addresses in the course of serving pages and protecting the site against abuse; Mike Wood Lighting does not use that information to identify individual visitors.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Mike Wood Lighting’s websites choose to interact with Mike Wood Lighting in ways that require Mike Wood Lighting to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mike Wood Lighting gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, visitors who reach out through the contact page share their email address and whatever they choose to include in their message.
The Report Data Issue form available on some pages asks for no name or email address. It sends the issue types you check, any correction links and notes you type, and basic browser diagnostics (such as viewport size, browser version, and the referring page) that help reproduce display bugs. Form reports are delivered by email and filed into the site's private issue tracker so they can be reviewed and fixed.
Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Aggregated Statistics
Mike Wood Lighting may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. Mike Wood Lighting may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Mike Wood Lighting does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Web Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to understand how visitors use the site in the aggregate: which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive, and what kinds of devices and browsers they use. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar identifiers to distinguish visitors and sessions. The information generated is transmitted to and stored by Google; Google Analytics 4 does not log or store individual IP addresses. Mike Wood Lighting uses this information only to understand and improve how the website is used, and does not use it to identify individual visitors.
For document files such as the lighting-paperwork PDFs and Mike's resume, the server also counts downloads that arrive directly (for example, from a search result or a shared link). These server-side counts are sent to Google Analytics with the file name, the referring page, and a pseudonymous identifier that rotates daily; they involve no cookies and are used only in the aggregate.
Interactive education pages such as the cue explorers additionally send anonymous interaction events to Google Analytics (for example, that a visitor moved the cue slider, which cue was being viewed, and which controls were used), so we can tell whether these tools are useful and worth expanding. These events describe activity on the page, not the person, and contain no personally-identifying information.
This website also uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first measurement tool provided by Cloudflare, Inc., to understand aggregate site performance (such as page load speed) as experienced by real visitors. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies or persistent identifiers, and does not track individual visitors across websites.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking analytics cookies in your browser as described in the Cookies section below. For more information about how Google handles this data, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Student Work
The education section of this website includes samples of student work created in courses Mike Wood teaches. All student work shared on this site is published in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): Mike Wood has obtained written permission from each student whose work appears here. If you are a student whose work is featured and you would like it updated or removed, please reach out through the contact page and it will be taken care of promptly.
Affiliate Disclosure
This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The only cookies this website sets are the Google Analytics cookies described in the Web Analytics section above, used to distinguish visitors and sessions in the aggregate. This website does not use cookies for advertising, personalization, or tracking across other sites.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers can set their browsers to refuse cookies, or use the Google Analytics opt-out add-on linked above; the site works fine without them.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Mike Wood Lighting may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Mike Wood Lighting’s sole discretion. Mike Wood Lighting encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.