Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 16, 2026

This site exists for a quiet purpose — to wrestle with one of Jesus’ most-told parables, and especially with the brother nobody throws a feast for. I want you to feel welcome here, and I want you to know exactly what happens with your information when you visit. The short answer is: very little. Here’s the long answer.

Who runs this site

I’m Keith Brown. I run prodigalsonparable.com as a personal project. The contact link in the site navigation opens an email to me directly — no web form, no captured email address stored on a server.

What information this site collects

When you just read

When you visit any page on this site, I use Cloudflare Web Analytics to understand how the site is being used in aggregate — how many people visit, which pages they spend time on, roughly what country they’re visiting from, what kind of device they’re on, and how the site is performing technically.

Cloudflare Web Analytics is designed to be privacy-friendly. It does not use cookies. It does not track you across other websites. It does not build a profile about you as an individual. It collects anonymous, aggregate data only — I can see that “127 people from the United States read the homepage today,” but I can never see that you specifically were one of them.

The legal basis for this collection is legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The reason this works without a cookie banner is that the data is fully anonymous from the moment it’s collected — there is no identifier that could ever be tied back to you as a person. The European Data Protection Board has recognized that anonymous aggregate analytics like this do not require consent.

If you’d like to read Cloudflare’s own statement on how Web Analytics handles privacy, their privacy policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

When you reach out

The contact link on this site is a simple mailto: — clicking it opens your email program with a message addressed to me. I receive whatever you choose to write. I don’t have any web form on the site that captures or stores your information server-side. Your email lives in my email inbox like any other personal correspondence.

I never share your email with anyone, and I don’t add you to any mailing list. There is no mailing list. If you’d like me to delete a message you sent me, just ask.

What information this site does NOT collect

To be clear about what’s not happening here: the site does not set cookies in your browser, and Cloudflare Web Analytics does not use cookies either. There are no tracking pixels — no Facebook Pixel, no Google Analytics, no advertising network beacons. There is no fingerprinting or attempt to identify you across visits. There is no third-party advertising, no advertising networks, and no ads served on this site. There is no newsletter or email list, no accounts to create, and no comments section. The site collects nothing about you as an individual.

What this site hosts

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which means Cloudflare delivers the pages to your browser. As part of serving any website, Cloudflare’s infrastructure handles standard internet traffic information (IP addresses, timestamps) for security and operational reasons. This is the same way every website on the internet works at a network level. Cloudflare’s handling of this data is governed by their privacy policy linked above.

The site’s domain registrar is Cloudflare. The site’s source files live on my personal computer and are deployed to Cloudflare Pages from there.

Your rights

Even though I collect almost nothing, you have rights under data protection law, especially if you’re in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or California.

You have the right to know what’s collected — that’s what this page is for. If anything here is unclear, write to me using the contact link in the site navigation. You have the right to access correspondence you’ve sent me — if you’ve emailed me and want a copy of what I have, just ask. You also have the right to deletion — if you’ve emailed me and want me to delete the correspondence, just ask.

You have the right to object to how this site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics. You can contact me about your concerns, or you can use a browser or browser extension that blocks the Cloudflare analytics beacon. The site will work normally either way.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint. If you believe I’m handling your data improperly, you have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. In the EU, you can find your supervisory authority at edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en. In the UK, that’s the ICO at ico.org.uk.

I’ll respond to any reasonable request within 30 days.

A note on the future

Right now this site is a contemplative space — no ads, no monetization, no monetary involvement at all. If that ever changes — if I add a newsletter, if I add an ad network, if I ever collect anything beyond what’s described above — I’ll update this page first, and I’ll mark clearly what’s new. You’ll be able to see exactly what changed and when.

Children’s privacy

This site is written for adults wrestling with theological questions. It’s not directed at children under 13. I don’t knowingly collect any information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent me a message, please write and I’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, I’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. For meaningful changes (anything beyond fixing a typo), I’ll note what changed in a brief paragraph here so you can see the difference.

Thank you for visiting. The fact that you read this far probably means you care about how people are treated on the internet. I care about that too. That’s why this page is short.