Privacy
This is a personal portfolio for Simon Betton, a principal software engineer in Auckland, New Zealand. The site does not offer user accounts, comment threads, or a hosted contact form. You can read the public pages, download a CV, watch published case-study video, ask the on-site chat about Simonâs work, or start an email in your own mail client. This page describes what the site actually does with information, not a generic SaaS privacy template.
I am the person responsible for this website. Privacy questions go to the same inbox I use for work: me@simonbetton.com. I treat that mail as correspondence, not as a marketing list.
What this site collects
The site is hosted on Vercel. Like most hosts, Vercel records technical request data such as IP address, user agent, requested path, and timestamps so the deployment can run, stay secure, and be debugged. I also use Vercel Web Analytics to understand visits and how people use the portfolio and its Service Sites. There are no advertising pixels, user accounts, or newsletter signups.
Analytics measures page views, link and download clicks, contact and wallet link clicks, controls, dialogs, video interactions, scroll depth, and time spent with a page visible. It also measures chat requests and outcomes, payment-flow states, and use of the browserâs Agent tools. Custom events contain page paths and interaction metadata, not chat messages, form values, copied content, wallet addresses, transaction details, or Agent tool inputs and results. Query strings and fragments are removed from the URLs this site sends to analytics. Vercel Web Analytics does not use tracking cookies.
The header âGet in touchâ control opens a mailto link to me@simonbetton.com. The message is written and sent in your mail client. This website does not receive or store that email unless you send it. If you attach files or include personal details, treat that as you would any other email to a person you are hiring.
The bottom-right chat sends the questions you type, and enough surrounding conversation for a reply, to Vercel AI Gateway so a hosted model can answer from this siteâs published pages. I do not keep a first-party transcript of those chats, and the chat does not create an account.
Third parties you may reach from here
- GitHub serves the header portrait and hosts public repositories linked from the site. Visiting those links is a visit to GitHub under GitHubâs terms.
- LinkedIn is linked from the footer. Opening that profile is a visit to LinkedIn.
- Some case studies embed video through Mux. Playing a video loads media from Muxâs network.
- Hover previews on outbound links fetch publicly advertised preview data (title, description, image) from the destination site so you can see where the link goes before you leave.
- The optional âSend me Dogeâ flow talks to BlockCypher and related Ăogecoin infrastructure to resolve and watch a payment address. Use it only if you intend to send Ăogecoin. Blockchain payments are public by design.
- The on-site chat is routed through Vercel AI Gateway to a language-model provider. What you type there is processed by those services so the assistant can reply. Do not paste secrets, health details, or other sensitive personal information into the chat.
Requests and changes
If you email me, I keep the correspondence so I can reply and, if we work together, do the job. I do not sell contact details. I do not use this site to profile visitors for advertising. If you want a copy of mail you sent, or you want me to delete a thread that is not needed for an active engagement, write to me@simonbetton.com and say so.
This policy describes the current portfolio. If hosting, video, chat, or payment providers change in a way that affects what is collected, I will update this page. The CV download is a static PDF; downloading it does not create an account.